Is anything more imperative to the success of your organization than strong communication? If you’re not prepared to communicate, it becomes hard to collaborate and make strides on critical projects. Fortunately, like many topics in business, technology permits for more effective communication and collaboration than ever before.
How does your organization leverage data backup? Depending on the way your organization functions and your particular needs, your data backup solution will vary from others in your industry. Still, one thing is absolutely undeniable: your business can’t afford to not utilize some type of data backup system.
Data has always been imperative, but more modern trends have placed emphasis on utilizing it to make important, educated decisions on the future of your business. Let's take a concentrated look at the data revolution and how your data has become a commodity.
Most individuals who utilize computers know "of" the hard drive, but how many actually know what a hard drive does? Depending on who you ask, you’ll get a variety of answers. It’s uncommon that you’ll encounter the ordinary person who knows what the hard drive is, what it does and how it works. Allow us to explain what exactly a hard drive does.
Regardless of what you assume, a bias is not an inherently negative thing. Still, if not considered rationally, a bias can lead you to make a business decision that does more bad than good. Researchers have studied why we hold the biases we do, and how we can overcome them.
One day you reach into your pocket and realize that your mobile device (with all your business data on it) is missing. You aren't sure if you lost it, or if it was stolen.
The more that society relies on mobile devices and portable computers to work, the more organizations have to contemplate how to manage their wireless network. The router is the piece of hardware that makes the wireless network feasible. Let's examine the router and how its configuration can dictate the strength, reliability, and security of your organization's wireless network.
Technology helps organizations of all kinds keep their operations running effectively, but depending on the way that it’s managed, it could have harmful effects on your business. For example: if you have all kinds of solutions hosted on specific servers or workstations, you’re preventing them from being accessed by devices that aren’t connected to that specific network. Wouldn’t it be better if everything was centralized so that all of it could be accessed at a moment's notice?
March 23rd, 2018, was the date when the United States Congress passed another spending bill that could reduce individual privacy protection all over the globe. This bill included a provision called the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (or CLOUD) Act, which makes modifications to the Stored Communications Act of 1986 and supplies unelected American officials a significant amount of power over digital privacy rights.
As smartphones have grown smarter, they have become stuffed with more data that needs to be kept private for the owner’s security and safety. Thus, it's fortunate that there are also more ways to protect a smartphone against unauthorized use. Below let's look at some of the best types of authentication for your mobile device.
Mobile devices have many, many uses, all of which allow users to get the most out of them. But what if all of your attempts at locating the best applications just lead to finding a fraudulent app on the Google Play Store? The truth is that the Google Play Store has its share of malware available for download in all kinds of disguises. Let's go over a couple of tips to help you avoid installing them to begin with.
Email is usually promoted as a favorite medium for iniating cyberattacks against organizations and individuals. Why? Because it’s easy to hide the true intent behind an email attack within its contents, whether they are embedded images in the message itself, or links to external sources. How can you be absolutely certain that the links in your email inbox are legitimate and secure?
Spring seems to be the natural time to re-energize and stimulate your environment; why shouldn’t your organization also be included? Not only does it help your operations, a clean environment also offers many advantages for your employees.
Learning how to utilize a new technology can be difficult. If you’ve been a committed Apple customer but are now considering switching to Android, you should know that simple differences between the two platforms can be disorienting. Let's go over some information you need to know when switching away from the iPhone.
Do you know what the term 'Virtualization' actually means? Today, let's explain and take a look at this method of computing.
Security is an aspect of business that is constantly adapting and progressing. What worked ten years, or even two years ago may not be relevant in our modern security environment. What are some of the significant changes that your business can expect to see in the coming years?
In 2017, ransomware became an immense risk for businesses, so when discussing how diabolical actors will be leveraging new ransomware streams in 2018, you have to do so with urgency. Let's take a look at ransomware and some trends you have to be very aware of going forward.
Your time is precious; you most likely don’t have enough to squander on waiting for your Windows operating system to boot up. Here are three methods to accelerate your Windows 10 boot time.
We frequently discuss how the Internet of Things can create security issues in businesses if not properly handled. While there are some very real threats that can be a result of utilizing the IoT in the workplace, there is no denying that it can also offer some very real advantages there as well.
As if the initial revelation of Equifax’s 2017 data exposure wasn’t terrible enough, it has now been reported that there are even more victims than we initially believed. While news like this is obviously never positive, it can produce a silver lining if the opportunities that said news presents are taken advantage of.
