Blogs

Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Specialist The Challenge Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)’s Student Health & Human Services (SHHS) Division required a Microsoft 365 experienced and certified Subject Matter Expert/Professional Consultant to assist with configuration services for the Information Technology Division. Client : Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Location : Los Angeles, California (Remote Service) Website : https://achieve.lausd.net/ Our Solution Accend’s Professional Services team provided a Microsoft Certified 365 Subject Matter Expert

SMCJUHSD Penetration Testing and PAN Firewall Analysis The Challenge South Monterey County Joint Union High School District (SMCJUHSD) required a Penetration Testing on their networks, which comprised three high schools. SMCJUHSD has two Palo Alto Networks Firewall PA-5220s, one at King City High School and one at the Greenfield High School. The Director of IT was concerned about security and wanted Accend to review the two firewalls for best practice configurations and also the security

STEM Audio and Cameras Mounting for K-12 The Challenge Charles Armstrong School (CAS) needed assistance with mounting and running cabling (Cat 6 and HDMI cables) for their STEM Ceiling microphones and cameras for 17 classrooms so they could continue to teach during COVID-19 via a live video session. Client : Charles Armstrong School Location : Belmont, California Website : https://www.charlesarmstrong.org/ Our Solution Accend’s team assisted with the mounting of the STEM Ceiling microphones and cameras,

Fortinet Client VPN Project for UCS The Challenge University of Southern California (USC) needed assistance with installing and configuring the Fortinet Client VPN and a Site-to-Site VPN connectivity from the Clemson location to the main campus. Client : University of Southern California (USC) Location : Los Angeles, California Website : https://www.usc.edu/ Our Solution Accend provided a Senior Network Security Engineer (CCIE level) for one week to assist them with installing the Fortinet client on Windows

Network Wiring and Servers Installation including Rack and Stack at Keiser Lab @UCSF The Challenge Keiser Lab @UCSF needed a service provider to assist them with running fiber cross-connect for their network extension, installing/reinstalling 14 GPU cards in 7 custom built Colfax 2U Rackmount servers, installed Centos Stream, configured basic network connectivity, configured their open source switches (Mellanox) for Layer 2 VLAN and Layer 3 basic routing for just outbound internet, and installed a FreeNAS