Don't Let Identity Theft End Your Holidays

Password Protection – Prevent Identity Theft Starting with Black Friday and throughout December--before and after the religious holidays, there is a flurry of shopping. Sales and sprees both in real life and online can keep our credit cards charging ahead ...

HR Policies for Tech

The horror of hacks to businesses The scariest part of horror movies is the first scene that shows the fiendish slasher is in the same house or even as close as the same room with the hero or heroine. Many ...

Backup, Monitor, Verify – 3 Business Survival Habits

  Backups are the single most important survival habit for your business. Period. Everything runs through your computer system.  If that system is down-especially for an extended period, you run the risk of your business failing. Studies show that over ...

Remember to save to the server!

The scenario: We all do it, you're creating a file and just want to save it as quickly as possible so you save it to the desktop! Don't do it! Resist the urge! Those files that we save to the ...

Petabyte .... what the heck are we going to store in that?

Maybe Apple can use this for icloud! A Petabyte is the latest size hard disc for servers created by Intel. 1 petabyte (PB) = 1048576 gigabytes (GB). This is great news for your server room as it will greatly reduce ...

$$%PAssWo#rds**! A review of how to keep your business passwords safe

We ran across this interesting article on passwords and it prompted us to write this review on password security for your business. The premise of the article is that a computer program can be created to crack the typical passwords ...

Cyber Security Badges for Girl Scouts!!!!

  With all the cyber attacks in the recent media, it is great news that the Girl Scouts are now offering cyber security badges! Encouraging young people at an early age to participate in thwarting cyber criminals will certainly add ...

Consequences of Moving from Old Small Business 365 Plans to New

This is an operational update to all my friends in the MSP community but can also be useful to anyone that has small business based office 365 plans. As of December 1, 2015 Microsoft has begun to force all small ...

Why Office 365?

We use office 365 for our clients a lot. It's a good solution for many reasons.Why office 365? 1) Never worrying about what version of the office you're on, anyone on 365 always has an up to date Office version. ...

What to think about before a VOIP installation

These days many business are looking at VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) Phone Systems. Instead of carrying calls on conventional phone lines, the voice is carried encrypted across the internet. While VOIP is usually the  way  to go, there are ...