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IT Best Practices

Your Older Firewall Makes You Vulnerable to Ransomware

Posted on April 9th, 2016 in IT Best Practices, IT Security

Many businesses have built digital fortresses around themselves in the form of firewalls, a reassuring name that suggests a high level of protection. So it’s alarming that ransomware attacks seem to be skirting this important security layer with ease, stopping businesses in their tracks and incurring hundreds or thousands in damages. One recent attack infiltrated users via Adobe Flash. In…(read more).

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How People Suffer From Data Loss, Despite Having a Backup Strategy

Posted on February 21st, 2016 in Backup and Disaster Recovery, IT Best Practices

Your data is one of your most important assets.  And you probably have a backup strategy in place to protect it.  Such strategies can be as simple as a nightly backup of your network server(s) or a much more elaborate replication and business continuity system.  Often, however, we hear of stories of people or companies that encounter irrecoverable data loss,…(read more).

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Cryptolocker or Cryptovirus Attacks

Posted on February 18th, 2016 in Backup and Disaster Recovery, IT Best Practices, IT Security

The bad-guys are getting smarter, taking advantage of tactics used by criminals for centuries.  Ransom and extortion have long been used due to the way they invoke very personal feelings of dread and loss.  We all know it’s bad to give money to bad people who’ve done bad things, but nonetheless it’s a very effective means of getting what you…(read more).

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Don’t Forget To Gather This Information Before Firing Your IT Service Company.

Posted on June 28th, 2015 in IT Best Practices

They say that change is inevitable.  For whatever reason, you may one day wish to change IT service companies.  It’s a change that, in our experience, can make many business owners and managers pretty anxious.  Information gathering is a key part of this process.  Whether your IT service company knows you intend to fire them or not, here is a…(read more).

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