Call to Arms: Fighting Cybercrime, Together

By Russ Levanway, CEO Industry Allies TekTegrity seeks out and continually works with fantastic partners and vendors who understand the unique challenges of the technology industry. We do this because we know that being in it together forges relationships, loyalty, and direct lines of communication, enabling us to better respond to the changing dynamics of… Read more »

The Great Equalizer

By Russ Levanway, CEO Think about how integral the internet is to your life. If you have children in school, you know that more and more, teachers are assigning online coursework and homework. Furthermore, you most likely receive their report card via email or the internet. If you’re job hunting, where do you look? Most… Read more »

Is Your Business Buddhist or Catholic?

By Russ Levanway, CEO I recently read a book that addresses the question of how to grow a business while retaining quality and efficiency called Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao. One key question in the book is “do you run your business with… Read more »

Tomorrow’s Techie

By Russ Levanway, CEO No degree? No problem. You’ve most likely heard stories about famous people in technology who didn’t excel in a classroom setting: Bill Gates attended Harvard for two years before dropping out to found Microsoft and Steve Jobs left Reed College after just six months. Traditional school just wasn’t where they did… Read more »

Resist the Click: Your first defense against cyber sabotage

By Russ Levanway, CEO A virus as menacing as it sounds A couple years ago a new virus emerged called “CryptoLocker”. This nefarious virus is classified as ‘ransomware’; It infects computers by encrypting the files, offloading the encryption key, and holding the files ransom for a fee made payable to CryptoLocker’s authors. Many people without… Read more »

Why the ‘WHY’ Matters

By Russ Levanway, CEO Until last year, TekTegrity’s mission was “To provide premium information technology services through relationships of the highest quality and integrity with our clients.” How many of our staff knew this mission by heart? Maybe half. And how well did it resonate with them? Probably not too well. Like individuals, companies can… Read more »

How Technology Connected Me to the World

by Russ Levanway, CEO In these days of fast-paced technological progress, I often hear people say that technology is disconnecting people from the world around them. Of course, there’s plenty of evidence to back that opinion up, including my personal favorite, the story of a woman who walked directly off a pier while scrolling her Facebook… Read more »

Ounces vs. Pounds

By Russ Levanway, CEO Is it healthier for the human body to a) take a walk, b) smoke a cigarette or c) eat a Krispy Kreme donut?   Tough question, right? Thanks to academic studies – and plain common sense – we know that eating well, breaking a sweat, and avoiding deteriorative behaviors like smoking… Read more »