Clear thinking about technology, risk, and the strange world we’ve plugged into.

Services

Clear, practical technology services focused on reliability, security, and real-world operation.

Security & Risk Analysis

Security isn’t about checklists — it’s about understanding how systems fail under real pressure. Digital Dr focuses on adversarial thinking, systems-level analysis, and practical defense.

IT Systems Support & Training

Troubleshooting, recovery, customized training and performance to get you the most out of your technology.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Designing systems that survive failure, scale responsibly, and remain secure under real-world conditions.
  • Linux & Windows systems
  • Virtualization & containers
  • Cloud migrations
  • Backup & disaster recovery

About

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What is Digital Drive IT Solutions?

Ken Hawrylak is the founder of Digital Drive IT Solutions, bringing over 40 years of experience helping people and organizations solve real technology problems. We focus on practical, trustworthy solutions—keeping systems reliable and secure. We are known for explaining complex technology in plain language and helping clients make confident, informed decisions.

Trusted Advice, Not Sales

Technology advice should serve you, not a sales quota. We focus on clear, practical recommendations you can trust.

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Fort Frances, ON, CA

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Zero Trust + Least Privilege: Don't Trust More Than You Need

Security doesn't have to mean making everything complicated. Two concepts that can make a significant difference are Zero Trust and Least Privilege. They aren't the same thing, but they work well together. Zero Trust starts with a simple idea:

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AI Should Have a Job Description

Over the past year, I've watched organizations rush to adopt artificial intelligence at an astonishing pace. Some have achieved remarkable productivity gains.

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The AI I Wanted Didn't Exist—So I'm Building It

Artificial intelligence is changing almost every industry, and cybersecurity is no exception. Every week there seems to be a new AI tool promising to automate penetration testing, identify vulnerabilities, or replace hours of manual work with a single prompt. While these tools are impressive, they often share the same limitation: they are very...

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Feynman Learning Coach

AI help to understand a topic! Download the following and copy the contents to your favourite LLM and paste into the prompt, then begin the exploration and learning you wish to pursue! Tested extensively on chatGPT and Grok, though I'm confident this will work with others as

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The One 3-Minute Habit That Stops 99.9% of Attacks

(Spoiler: your password manager is gathering dust.) Let’s be honest. Most of us can’t remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday, yet we expect ourselves to memorize a dozen “strong” passwords made of hieroglyphics and regret. Meanwhile, half the devices in our homes are quietly online, hoping no one notices they’re still

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Your Toaster Is Literally a Terrorist Now

"In thirty years..." 1. Your refrigerator will unionize with 400,000 other appliances and DDoS (distributed denial of service) the entire internet because someone forgot to change the default password ("admin/admin", classic). 2. A Las Vegas casino will get cleaned out because the Wi-Fi fish tank got too chatty with Russian hackers. (Yes the...

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