Computer Transition Services, Inc.

CTSI is growing across Lubbock, Midland, and Frisco! We're hiring for multiple roles: Technology Sales Consultant (Midland & Frisco), Desktop Specialist (Lubbock), IT Help Desk Technician (Midland), Marketing & Sales Representative (Midland), and Inside Consulting Support Representative (Lubbock).

Know someone who'd be a great fit? Send them our way.

Open positions: https://newchartertech.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/CTSI

Happy Education Technology Day!

A classroom today might run on a Chromebook cart, a learning app that adapts to each student's pace, and a Wi-Fi network that has to hold up to 30 kids streaming a video at once. None of that existed the way it does now even five years ago.

Behind the scenes, that shift has put real pressure on school IT departments: more devices to manage, more attack surface to defend, and usually the same (or smaller) budget to do it with.

If you work in education IT, what's eating the most time this school year?

In eight days, whatever's left in your agency's IT budget reverts back to the Treasury. No rollover, no do-over.

This mainly applies to organizations in defense, healthcare, transportation, and energy, where federal budget cycles are tied to the fiscal year-end deadline.

If you've been putting off a hardware refresh, a cybersecurity upgrade, or a cloud migration because the timing never felt right, now is the time. Agencies and contractors in these sectors who wait until the last week of September usually end up scrambling or missing the window altogether.

We can help you scope something fast enough to close before the 30th. https://www.ctsinet.com/contact

Every agency wants the efficiency AI promises, but fewer stop to ask where their data is actually going first.

Before any AI tool goes agency-wide, it's worth pressure-testing three things:

▪️ Where the data is processed and by whom
▪️ Whether the vendor meets your compliance and data residency requirements
▪️ Whether you have a written policy for how staff can (and can't) use it

A clear AI readiness assessment now saves a lot of cleanup later. Let's talk before you roll it out: https://www.ctsinet.com/contact

One of the best compliments an IT team can get is silence: no outages, no panicked calls, nothing breaking. That's not luck. That's a network admin catching a failing drive before it takes down a server, a help desk tech walking someone through a password reset without missing a beat.

Today's National IT Professionals Day, and it's a good excuse to say thanks to the people running IT teams everywhere, including ours. Cheers to the hard work!

Picture this: a security tool flags a login attempt from a country your employee has never traveled to, before that employee even notices anything's wrong. That's what AI-driven threat detection looks like in practice, catching in seconds what used to take a human analyst hours, sometimes days.

The uncomfortable flip side: the same technology is helping attackers write phishing emails and clone voices convincingly enough to fool a coworker on the phone. Neither side is standing still.

So the real question for your business isn't whether to adopt AI in your security stack. It's whether what you already have can keep pace. We can help: https://www.ctsinet.com/what-we-do/cybersecurity-solutions

It's the second Tuesday of the month, which means Microsoft just released its latest round of security patches.🚨

Here's the part that doesn't get said enough: attackers study those same patches, working backward to figure out who hasn't installed them yet. The longer a system sits unpatched, the bigger the target on it.

If updating servers and third-party software isn't already automatic for your business, today's the day to check. Let us handle it for you: https://www.ctsinet.com/contact

Labor Day notice! Our offices will be closed on Monday, September 7, in observance of Labor Day. Our team is taking a well-earned break!

On-call support remains available for urgent issues. If you experience a critical outage or security incident, call our direct support line at 1.800.OUR.CTSI.

Enjoy the long weekend!

This month, CTSI is celebrating some great work anniversaries.

These milestones say a lot about the team we've built and the people who keep showing up for our clients. Congratulations!

🔐 September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month, and not every risk to your network comes from the outside.

Disgruntled employees, unchecked credential-sharing, and simple human error account for a significant share of data breaches every year. This month is a good time to take a hard look at your access controls: Who has access to what, and are departing employees deprovisioned the same day they leave?

"See something, say something" applies to your network too.

CTSI can help you close the gaps: https://www.ctsinet.com/what-we-do/cybersecurity-solutions