Severe weather, like hurricanes Harvey and Irma, can be as devastating to your IT environment as cyberattacks. While you cannot prevent or stop events like tornados and hurricanes, you can prepare for them. With the correct preparations, you can minimize the damage to your IT systems and lessen […]
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Don’t Let Your IT Policies, Plans, and Strategies Collect Dust
To help keep IT systems running securely and efficiently, businesses often create IT policies, plans, and strategies. For example, businesses establish comprehensive acceptable use, mobile device, and email policies to protect their IT assets. They also develop detailed disaster recovery plans and data backup strategies so they can […]
Data Backups vs. Replication: What Does Your Business Need?
Data backups and replication aren’t one and the same. There are important differences in what they are used for and how they are set up. Most businesses need both, but to know for sure, you need to know the differences.
Data Backups
Data backups involve […]
What You Need to Know about the Virtual Desktops Feature in Windows 10
Windows 10 has many new features, one of which is the ability to create virtual desktops. Although Microsoft offered this functionality in the past, it was only available as an add-on program. As a result, most Windows users are not familiar with what virtual desktops are and […]
5 Ways to Declutter Your Hard Disk
As businesses grow, so do the number of files they generate. Presentations, proposals, correspondence, contracts, spreadsheets, and other types of business documents can quickly accumulate and fill up a hard disk. Fortunately, freeing up disk space on Windows computers is relatively easy.
Here are five ways to declutter […]
Don’t Let Your Business Become the Next Spear Phishing Victim
Spear phishing scams targeted at businesses have proven to be very lucrative for cybercriminals. For example, since January 2015, hackers have stolen over $3 billion (USD) from more than 22,000 companies worldwide using a type of spear phishing attack known as a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam […]
WannaCry Ransomware – What You Can Do
Why this Attack is Different
Stories of a new ransomware attack flooded the news on Friday, and by Sunday more than 200,000 individuals and 10,000 organizations in 150 countries worldwide had been hit. The size of the attack makes this exploit stand […]
6 Ways to Make Your IT Security Training More Effective
Cybercriminals like to target the weakest link in companies’ security defenses — and that link is often the employees. But it does not have to be that way. Your employees can provide an important line of defense against cybercrime if you educate them about IT security. For this training […]