MTG-HighFlyer

Mastery Technology Group
 
708 Wilbain Dr West
Utica, NY 13502
 
Ph: (315) 849-0505
Skype: MTG-HighFlyer
 
ALL Services Warranted for 30 Days.
 
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Specialties:
 
  • Computer & Network
    • Repair
    • Upgrades
    • Data Recovery
  • It's SM - IT for Start-Ups
    • Design
    • Implementation
    • Managed Services
  • Computer & Network Security
  • Networking
    • Wired & Wireless
  • Software
    • Design & Coding
  • Custom Computers
    • Design & Fabrication
  • Custom Websites & Hosting
  • Penetration Testing
  • 3rd Party Expert Reviewer
 
Vendor Specialties:
 
  • Microsoft
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Linux
    • All Flavors
  • Cisco / Linksys
  • Juniper / NetScreen
  • D-Link

Experienced from

SOHO to Internet NAP

Dominate Your Competition
We treat all of our clients as an Enterprise, size doesn't matter. It's all about efficiency and performance with what you have.
 
Your business or residential deployment can benefit from our world class experience in computer and network design, construction, management, and security without hiring your own IT staff. Mark Duck, the owner and founder of MTG-HighFlyer, has given sworn Congressional testimony and worked with and consulted for many agencies including the US Air Force, NSA, FBI, AFOSI, DOJ, New Scotland Yard, US Customs, Homeland Security, NASA, NYS Troopers, and more...

I was a principal investigator during the global watershed event in Computer Security - the 1994 'Rome Lab Break-In'. Prior to this incident computer security threats were understood but only as an afterthought; after this event Computer Security became a design consideration and taken very seriously!

From the owner:

I designed, built, and maintained the US Air Force's Rome Laboratory computer network (UNITY) and IT infrastructure for ten years, and can do the same for you.

Always one for getting my hands dirty - I'd much rather work on and solve problems; not sit behind a desk and tell others what to do...that's Boring! I have over 35 years experience in networking and computer security.

Give us the problems you think are impossible, we'll get them done. When I worked at GE Aerospace they called me the "Sledgehammer." If it doesn't fit, get a Bigger Hammer! My associates and I are committed to your satisfaction and success - call us.

Mark Duck
Contact Us with Your Challenge Today!
January 22, 2001
(Computerworld and ITworld)

The Info Warrior   (Full Story)

Sachs hasn't been on the job long enough to chase down any serious attack on DOD systems yet. But Mark Duck has. As an early information warrior in 1994, Duck took a job as network manager at Air Force Research Laboratory, known then as Rome Labs, in Rome, N.Y. In so doing, he stepped right into an attack on the Air Force Research Lab network.
Duck noticed that several of the lab's servers had been compromised at root level, and he made a phone call that helped launch the biggest computer crime investigation in military history. It spread to more than 100 downstream computers, including Air Force contracting agencies, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and even the South Korean Atomic Research Institute.
"I'm the first line of defense," says Duck, who's now IT enterprise director at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Griffiss Air Force Base in New York. As such, he blocks and tracks numerous attacks on the lab's network. Duck also spends a lot of time on employee education. "A week after a tutorial on e-mail viruses, I embedded a virus in JavaScript and sent it anonymously to our 1,200 users." he says. "The virus secretly redirected those who click the attachment to 'MyEvilWebSite.com,' which had a note reminding them they shouldn't open unsolicited attachments. Within seven minutes, 154 of my users had been registered at that site."
The exciting work and ability to learn new skills has kept Duck in military civil service for almost seven years and has kept Sachs enlisted for almost 20 years. But both plan to move to the private sector in the next year.
"The private sector is also under information warfare attack," Duck says. "It's just different. Instead of actual war, they have to worry about espionage and liability."