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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Advantages of Encrypting Your Email

Advantages of Encrypting Your Email

Encryption stands as a formidable shield for businesses, fortifying their security architecture. While often discussed in VPN contexts, its significance in securing email solutions cannot be overstated. Why is email encryption indispensable for businesses of all sizes? 

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Why Your Business Should Utilize a VPN

Why Your Business Should Utilize a VPN

With data security being a hot commodity with hackers, it’s no surprise that companies want to do everything they can to protect their assets. One method for doing so is implementing a Virtual Private Network, or VPN, that can effectively obfuscate data while it’s in transit. Listed below are some of the most valuable reasons why your business should be using a VPN.

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Four Technologies You Can Utilize to Better Secure Your Data in Transit

Four Technologies You Can Utilize to Better Secure Your Data in Transit

A lot of business is done via the Internet, so securing transactions is imperative to protect sensitive information and prevent unauthorized access or even fraud. There are multiple things you can do to improve your data while it is in transit.

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Is Your VPN Actually Securing Your Data?

Is Your VPN Actually Securing Your Data?

With the world dramatically changing in the past two years, work strategies have changed substantially. Now companies that once were anti-remote work are embracing the strategy. This means that the way they need to manage their IT has to change with the times. Alas, threats also evolve. Hackers and scammers are now doing more to target virtual private networks. 

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Examining the 2 Types of VPN

Examining the 2 Types of VPN

Virtual private networking, while maybe not the most recognizable term to everyone, at least seems to be pretty straightforward. Such a specific-sounding term must apply to one aspect of technology and that one aspect alone, right?

In actuality, there are two kinds of VPN. Listed below are what makes them different, and which your business should utilize.

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What a VPN Can and Cannot Do for your Company

What a VPN Can and Cannot Do for your Company

A virtual private network, also known as a VPN, is an imperative part of keeping your business safe while operations are taking place out of the office, but a discussion needs to be had about what a VPN can do and cannot do. This is especially critical to know for keeping your organization safe. 

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A VPN is Critical to your Organization's Security

A VPN is Critical to your Organization's Security

In the modern age of mobile work, employees are taking data outside the security of your infrastructure and using it to be productive. However, this results that data being more at risk than ever before. Fortunately, today's technology offers solutions to this dilemma, chief among them being the virtual private network (VPN).

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The Advantages of Utilizing Email Encryption

The Advantages of Utilizing Email Encryption

The importance of encryption in today’s business environment cannot be stressed enough, especially if you are trying to protect your email communications. The definition of encryption as well as the advantages of utilizing it for your business’ communications solutions is listed below. 

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FBI Director Insists Government Can Access Any Private Record

FBI Director Insists Government Can Access Any Private Record

Does the U.S. Constitution allow the American government to access the electronic devices of its citizens? According to FBI Director James Comey’s statements at Symantec’s Annual Government Symposium, it certainly does.

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Which VPN is Best For Your Organization?

Which VPN is Best For Your Organization?

Numerous computer users worry about their privacy--and judging by the discussions surrounding the FCC and Net Neutrality, they should be. Now that users are responsible for the privacy of their online activity, they are finding new ways to make sure that corporations are not taking advantage of their Internet activity--mostly through the use of a Virtual Private Network, or VPN.

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Give Tech Security Credit When Credit Is Due

b2ap3_thumbnail_technology_security_credit_400.jpgWe talk a lot about viruses or holes in supposedly sound security structures, but today it seems as if that's all there is to talk about. It's all about the latest vulnerability, or a hacking attack that left millions of people with compromised passwords. People always concentrate on the negative aspects of things without looking at the positives.

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Is It Possible to Encrypt the Entire Internet?

b2ap3_thumbnail_encrypt_the_internet_400.jpgMany websites around the world are still suffering from the nasty little bug called Heartbleed that we covered last month. This prompted over 30,000 TLS/SSL certificates to be revoked and reissued, but many of them were reissued with the same keys. If this was going to happen, why revoke and reissue them in the first place? They're still just as vulnerable as before, since Heartbleed could have leaked those same keys weeks ago.

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