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By their very nature operations technology careers are focused on the management of physical spaces, most of them local. Since the advent of the green building movement smart devices have proliferated from office buildings and homes into hospitals, factories and even aboard cruise ships to save...

If you had told me a year ago that our Front Desk Receptionist would come back a year later as an Inside Sales Representative, I don’t think I would have believed you. Not that he’s incapable by any means, but just because that doesn’t usually happen.

Miguel (or Mickey) left Tempered last year...

When the internet took off, it quickly became clear that the finite number of IPv4 addresses would soon be tapped out. The protocol allows for about 4 billion IP addresses, and there are already more than 4 billion connected devices—with many more on the way as a result of the adoption of cloud, the...

Lucas has been one of our Support Engineers at Tempered Networks for over two years. While two years may not be a lot in the grand scheme of things, it could be converted to two decades at a tech start-up! Basically, he’s just seen a lot. I was able to tear Lucas away from his desk for a bit to ask...

Business professionals outside of IT demand business agility. It’s the current buzzword and has a nice ring… business agility! If you’re in IT, however, you’ve likely come to loathe the word. It’s very meaning conflicts with your need for tight security in the face of growing threats. Business...

Tempered Networks wants to hire “A” players who self-manage. Recently, Marguerite Yeo joined our team, and so far, it’s not hard to gauge her impact. The first week, she took the lead on a trade show campaign for RealComm, the pre- and post-demand creation. She wrote the copy, worked with Alyssa on...

“I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore.”

Who doesn’t identify with Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz these days? This statement has become so powerfully relatable because we associate Kansas with normalcy and safety. Any new world is far from our comfort zone. So what happens when you put a...

Ludwin was part of the original Tempered team that commercialized HIP out of Boeing's research department. However, Ludwin wasn’t even on the team that was working on HIP in the first place. How did he end up here then? Keep reading to find out!

Trisha: You’ve been working here for 6 years now—that...

For our first employee spotlight, Trisha, our HR Generalist, talks with Jared about his transition from one of our awesome interns to his role as a full-time employee.

Jared Williams is an intern success story in many ways, but especially for Tempered since he now works with us as a full-time...

Each year, it seems as if we are seeing increasingly clever exploits, and hackers are outdoing themselves when infiltrating our critical infrastructure. While compliance requirements have become stronger, trends point to the fact that they are not stopping these advanced attacks that hackers throw...