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8 Tips for Preventing a Data Breach This Quarter
As the risk of a data breach is higher now than ever before, a company must take necessary steps to protect its information. Here are 8 tips to help protect your business from a data breach this quarter: Keep Systems and Software up to date. The most important...
The 3 Most Overlooked Information Security Factors
Security: a word that makes people feel happy and frustrated at the same time. For example, bank security can be reassuring to an individual as opposed to airport security, which can be stressful. Information security however, generally does not generate happy...
The Next Era of IT is the Connected IT Professional
The role of the IT Department is always evolving, but evolution doesn’t change the core principles and expectations of IT. Regardless of the size of the business, the business side will always want to squeeze as much juice from the berry of IT as possible. The...
The Truth About Mobile Device Security
In the present day, employees are king, bringing with them (into the network) not one, not two, but sometimes three or more personal devices that have little-to-no corporate-approved applications; yet they connect to the corporate network and chat, e-mail, talk and...
The Confident Cloud User
“A paranoid user is only paranoid because they do not really understand the threat, they only understand an aspect of it." To best communicate the security risk of the cloud, we in IT need to bring the risks into the real world. Most IT professionals develop this...
The Most Important Security Protection You Need
Google the top social engineering attacks. What do you get? Stories about Trojan Horses, Phishing attacks, Malware injections, redirects, spam, and people giving up way too much personal information on public websites. The surface area for social engineering attacks...
9 Tips to Prevent Phishing Attacks
In addition to having the right tools in place, a company must understand the role their employees play in information security. Employees possess credentials and overall knowledge that is critical to the success of a breach of the company’s security. One of the ways...
The Future of IT Support
The IT field has seen many changes since its inception and, as Moore’s law continues to prove itself true, we must change and adapt faster and faster to new technology. It’s survival of the fittest in the IT jungle and we, as IT Managers, need to lead our IT Support...
4 Key Questions to Ask when Choosing an IT Service Provider
Choosing an IT Service Provider can be a difficult task and the process can be grueling. From technology upgrades to data migration to cyber security, IT Service Providers support businesses’ technology needs while constantly changing their services and offerings due...
Prepare For The Worst with a Disaster Recovery Plan
A shadow looms over the New York City landscape – the tsunami and impending super-storm that Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal had warned humanity about is set to engulf civilization as we know it. Or perhaps it’s the asteroid that Bruce Willis and his team take on...
