True story: It’s Saturday afternoon, the doors have been closed and locked after a busy retail morning. One employee stays late to finish a few orders. He visits a couple websites too and at one of them a warning pops … Continue reading
Using a strong password is one of the simplest security measures people can take to protect themselves online. Despite how easy it is to make a strong password, using predictable passwords remains all too common. When you use a predictable … Continue reading
Over the past year, Microsoft has been doing its best to keep business users of Office 365 confused—in a good way! Every few weeks, it seems, a new tile appears under the cheerful greeting I see when I sign in … Continue reading
“Moving to the cloud” means changing to a type of computing that’s based on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers, local storage devices, and local applications. “Local” means on the premises of your organization (inside your office/s!). “The … Continue reading
The need to back up data—transactions, reports, drawings, photographs, spreadsheets, specifications, all the things computers help you create in the course of a business day—is something we all understand. Losing data can mean hours of rework, gaps in business accounts … Continue reading
How much time do you spend thinking about the IT infrastructure on which your business depends? If you’re like most owners of small-to-medium-sized businesses, you think about IT when something isn’t working right. The Break/Fix Model Your sales reps can’t … Continue reading
In today’s workplace, using a computer is like driving a car—we all need to know a few essential things about our PC to get our work done problem-free. Bring these six simple practices into your computer-operating life and you’ll save … Continue reading
There are two points a manager or owner of a small- or medium-sized business (SMB) should understand: SMB’s are as vulnerable to cyber attacks as large enterprises, if not more. Cybersecurity for SMB’s is not rocket science. Let’s break these … Continue reading
The term “malware” joins two words that tell you exactly what malware is: MALICIOUS and SOFTWARE. Malware is malicious software—software that was created to cause damage to whatever IT system it manages to get established in. Just as there are … Continue reading
The data breach at Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca is being touted as the biggest data breach ever in terms of the sheer volume of data leaked. The leaked data points out the ways in which many high-ranking government officials, … Continue reading
