- May 20, 2022
Ongoing IT for Extraordinary Homes (and more!)
By Steve BoullianneExtraordinary Homes require ONGOING care. A homeowner asked us to start managing their Atherton estate; At first to have us on site to fix cameras in the boiler room. After we replaced the broken cameras, the owner said, “and I can’t scan either”. After we fixed...
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- January 17, 2022
The hackers punish Lazy-bones Jones
By Steve BoullianneHe said, yawning…. “I like my 20 year old password! I’m a nice guy and not a tech billionaire. They’ll ignore me. I’m immune to hacks and my dog-name password is superhard to guess.” Cybercrime; one computer can hack 120,000 computers per day; every day. Now...
- December 10, 2021
Extraordinary Home Networking Security Sensors
By Steve BoullianneIT’S NEW STUFF. Our dreams finally come true. Our partners say that IPSOFACTO builds and manages the best home networks in the world: the things that go beep, the things with a green light, and the things that protect you at night. And now, at last,...
- November 9, 2021
Building an Extraordinary home. The Technology Piece
By Steve BoullianneYou’re building a $30m home. That’s about right for the Silicon Valley in 2022. This is not to mention the art or objects IN the home, btw. Only the cost of land and infrastructure. The technology IN the home comes in 3 pieces. 1. Network. 2...
- October 27, 2021
World Leader in Managing Extraordinary Homes
By Steve BoullianneWhether your home is in Singapore, Fiji, Hawaii, Atherton, Miami, or Paris, we manage and maintain the tightest security measures for protecting families of High net worth. AND, since most of these families have other revenue generating businesses, charities, investment wings, and personal ventures, we manage...
- March 31, 2021
REOPEN YOUR FAMILY OFFICE!
By Steve BoullianneCovid ends, Employees stop working from home, and offices re-open.
We have work to do to update dormant equipment, run audits, and test circuits.
Here’s what to do to prepare our offices for an onslaught of pent-up work:
- October 28, 2020
The iPHONE 12 for Family Office Security, Does My House Staff Need It?
By Steve BoullianneiPHONE 12 Pros and Cons for my Family Office- Do we need 5G? The New IPHONE12 comes out and it’s $1,000 for each house staff member. Do they need 5G? What is 5G? 5G is the 5th generation mobile network. It is a new global wireless...
- October 15, 2020
New Home Construction Technologies Make Secure Winners
By Steve BoullianneExtraordinary Homes are not the same anymore. We are seeing upwards of $500k in technologies built into the homes for Data, Security, Audio/Visual, and MultiMedia. But Data and Client theft are torture for owners of Extraordinary Homes with House Staff. The thieves, the hackers, in the...
- September 4, 2020
A Dedicated Team for Your Family Office
By Steve BoullianneEstate Mangers and Owners of Extraordinary Homes… Are poorly managed Hosted Services causing you heartache? If you’re an Estate Manager or owner of an Extraordinary Home, read on. Here at IPSOFACTO we soothe your heartache! We have a team dedicated to hosted services management. They create,...
- July 13, 2020
IPSOFACTO HIRING A SENIOR NETWORKING ENGINEER
By Steve BoullianneMessage from CEO: If you are a REAL technology lover, you are drawn to it. You see articles about security or new hardware or software and you read them. When you want to learn about something, you watch videos, educate yourself. You know IT systems inside...
- April 22, 2020
Hosted Services Security Guide for Extraordinary Homes
By Steve BoullianneI. CLOUD SERVICES for EXTRAORDINARY HOMES and HOUSE STAFF ACCOUNT SECURITY Implement Password Manager (Last Pass) What it entails: Last Pass account setup on user computer(s) and device(s), transferring/copying all passwords to application vault and user training. Estimated time to complete: Depends on number of users...
- April 21, 2020
Apple & Google Gang Up to know what your blood is doing (with Covid19)
By Steve Boullianne(Hi Friends- I usually write our articles, but this was too good to regurgitate. Courtesy of the Hustle.co) PANDEMIC TECH 5 things to know about the Apple-Google collaboration on contact tracing Two of the world’s biggest tech giants are going big on contact tracing. On Friday,...