What the Latest Data Breach Tells Us about Network Security, Data Integrity, and Social Engineering
Another week, another data breach — at least that’s what it felt like when the federal government revealed last week that the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security had employee information hacked. Initial reports indicate that no sensitive information was stolen; apparently, the majority of the data breach concerned email addresses, phone […]
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Is it time for you to move to the cloud? 6 pros and 9 cons
While we have yet to see a major shift by larger companies to cloud computing, we do see more acceptance by smaller companies to move their computing environments to the cloud. With the growth of mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, the movement of data and computing resources to the cloud looks like […]
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Going Digital: The Paperless Office Isn’t a Pipedream
Perhaps you saw the recent New York Times article about airline pilots replacing bulky, printed in-cockpit flight manuals with digital versions on iPads. It makes great sense—the digital version weighs a fraction of the 40lb. paper version, receives updates in real-time, and is easily searchable. In the early- and mid-90s, when PCs were revolutionizing the way many […]
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Are you doing everything that you should to protect yourself from malware? (or, How to catch a virus)
Recently, it seems that there have been a lot of incidents in the news about major corporations who have been hacked into or exposed customer data to outsiders. You might well ask “If Apple or Sony can’t keep their systems safe with all their resources, how can I protect my business?” Fortunately, you probably don’t […]
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