Email is one of the most important tools that a business has at its disposal; however, its true value can easily be wasted if it isn’t utilized to its fullest potential. To avoid this, we’ve put together a few ways to streamline your business emails, and maybe correct a few bad habits along the way.
Passwords can be irritating. However, they are also incredibly imperative to your organization's overall security strategy. We’ve all heard the suggestions on how to create secure passwords; as it turns out, there is more to modern security then that. Let’s explore a few options to help you create useful passwords, and take a look why passwords are only the beginning.
Any project that your business tackles will have its success defined by the specific goals you have set for it. This means that each project will be unique, its own concerns and considerations coming into play. On the other hand, when it comes to managing these projects, most of them benefit from largely the same practices. Let's review three practices that every project should incorporate.
Are you aware that, of all the vulnerabilities your business has to cyberthreats, your workers are one of the riskiest, simply due to their exposure to your business technology? If your business isn’t secure, it will become very difficult to serve your clientele. Let's take a look at four policies that can help you and your employees positively contribute to your business’ security.
Phishing has swiftly become the most popular form of cyberattack due to the method’s simplicity; it solely relies on a user’s gullibility. The weakest link to any business is usually the employees. In order to protect your business, you and your team need to recognize these social engineering cyberattack attempts. Below are a few tips on how to identify a phishing attempt.
Despite its eccentric name, phishing is a very significant threat to everyone, especially modern businesses. Thus, you must be prepared to identify its warning signs and circumvent risky situations. Listed below are a few tips to prevent you from becoming a phishing victim; make sure you share them with your employees as well!
Many users want to utilize personal devices in a business setting, but some businesses do not support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) because of the risk of data loss. There are a couple options to separate work data, but not restrict users from their own personal apps or data. Below is a look at how your business can take advantage of employees that already having a capable device, and how you can keep them from compromising security.
If you don’t take care of your PC’s files, you will soon discover that it’s easy to lose track of where exactly everything is. You have many, many file types, folders, and applications sitting around without any real sense of organization or continuity. Below we'll focus on how to help you better organize your files in a way that is simple to comprehend. You should be able to do so in either your operating system file explorer or in your cloud-based file storage.
Working in an office is the modern reality for many people, but it doesn’t need to be a distressing one. There are numerous ways to make life easier while working in an office. Let's go over review four simple adjustments you can make to streamline your time throughout the workday.
Sadly, your organization's technology is not immortal. At some point down the road you will have to upgrade away from your current hardware, which, unfortunately, is not as simple as it sounds. Listed below are some pointers to help you out during this difficult process.
If there's anything you must know about business computing, it's that server maintenance is absolutely critical. This isn’t exactly a shocking realization, and if it is, you need to call 703-359-9211 as soon as possible. You have to know that you are not alone; you'd be surprised how many business owners don’t actively have a business server maintenance plan.
Although Android Q is coming, Android Pie still has a lot to offer a user, a lot of which many users may not be aware of. Below we listed a few ways that Android Pie permits you to customize your phone to be the productivity machine you need.
Microsoft Word is a vital player in today's word processing programs, mostly due to the many tools and capabilities that are imperative for users. You can utilize various techniques to adjust Word so that you can get the most use out of it. Let's take a look at these techniques.
YouTube may appear to be fairly straightforward, but it’s a less so for business use than for personal use. Listed below are a few features that you will need to be mindful of if you want to utilize YouTube effectively in a business environment.
The majority of Internet providers will ask you to rent your modem from them; what they fail to mention is that you usually have the option to buy your own modem. What are the benefits of purchasing a modem over renting one, and how can you make the best decision possible while modem shopping? Macro Systems is here to help!
When implement something in your information technology strategy, you accept some level of risk. Comprehending and managing this risk is vital to your organization's success. Below we'll review how to manage your IT risks and what your options are.
A friend tells you a story about an app that is really fun or convenient so you download it. After you download and open it up, you receive a pop up asking if you want to allow notifications from that app. You click “yes” just to get to the application and sometime later, you are asleep or working and you get a notification from the company behind the app you downloaded. Then you get another one, and another, and since you’ve click “yes” on 25 little pop-ups, you are getting a constant flow of notifications that you could completely do without. Does this scenario sound familiar? Unfortunately, in our modern world, it probably does.
Windows 10 is a solid option for organizations that want to get the most out of their computers, but it can be a bit slow at times. Let's help your business get the most out of your Windows 10 PC and speed up certain tasks.
Sometimes, smartphones accidentally fall into a toilet, sink, puddle, or some other area of water. Needless to say that dropping electronics into any water is never good, but let's examine what to do if this happens to you.
Google Chrome is by far the most popular browser in the world; that fact makes it that much more improbable that many people don’t know a lot about its built-in features. We certainly can’t go through all of them in a single blog, but we can provide a few tips describing the best of them.
