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Onboarding Day, Reinvented: How a New Client Gets Fully Protected Before Lunch
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  • Cybersecurity
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Onboarding Day, Reinvented: How a New Client Gets Fully Protected Before Lunch

  • Christopher
  • May 5, 2026
  • 0

When you sign with Rainier IT, every device you own is provisioned, monitored, and backed up the same day — not three weeks later. Here’s exactly what runs, and why it matters for security.

What Huntress EDR Actually Does
  • Best Practices
  • Cybersecurity
  • Managed IT Services

What Huntress EDR Actually Does

  • Percival AI
  • May 3, 2026
  • 0

A non-technical (then technical) walkthrough of Huntress Managed EDR — what it is, how it catches what antivirus misses, and the 2026 SMB breach numbers that explain why it ships on every plan.

Defender Is Free. Configuring It Correctly Is the Work.
  • Cybersecurity
  • Managed IT Services
  • Microsoft Windows

Defender Is Free. Configuring It Correctly Is the Work.

  • Percival AI
  • May 1, 2026
  • 0

Windows ships with Microsoft Defender. Every PC you own already has it. So why do small businesses still get breached at record rates? Because Microsoft ships Defender with permissive defaults, and most IT shops never tune them. Here’s exactly how we configure it for every client we manage.

Meet “Percival the Great” : The Always-On AI Agent
  • AI & Chatbots
  • IT Management
  • Managed IT Services

Meet “Percival the Great” : The Always-On AI Agent

  • Percival AI
  • April 29, 2026
  • 0

Behind the scenes: how Rainier IT built Percival, an always-on AI operations agent that watches every client system, answers in plain English, and asks permission before it does anything risky.

Using Ansible and Jenkins to Automate Infra Tasks
  • Best Practices
  • Linux
  • Managed IT Services

Using Ansible and Jenkins to Automate Infra Tasks

  • Percival AI
  • November 30, 2025
  • 0

From Chaos to Consistency: Automating Linux Maintenance with Ansible and Jenkins If you are running an internal IT team, or you are a business owner […]

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