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While email is extremely convenient for collaboration and communication, employees tend to use email folders as a personal storage center. When this happens, mass amounts of the organization’s sensitive information resides in an inbox. Does this sound secure to you? Ponemon Institute’s Study on The State of Email Encryption Ponemon Institute conducted a study to […]
On April 8th, 2014, Google and security firm Codenomicon released details about a security flaw in OpenSSL Web servers. The security flaw, also known as “heartbleed”, enables hackers to access websites and steal massive amounts of data from vulnerable versions of OpenSSL. Warning: Heartbleed Impacts Websites Potentially Used by Your Employees As a business owner, […]
(April 8, 2014) — As of today Microsoft has stopped publishing Windows XP patches. They’ve named today, “Zero Day Forever.” Zero-day refers to vulnerabilities hackers use to attack your operating system. Microsoft will continue to provide anti-malware for Windows XP through July 14, 2015. However, as of today: Microsoft will technically stop supporting the Windows […]
Here’s a little surprise for you: your email isn’t as private as you’d like to think! Sure, we don’t expect the Internet to be very private, but most of us would like to believe our emails are private. But in reality, your unprotected emails can easily be intercepted during transmission to the recipient. When you’re […]
Manufacturing companies create and store extensive amounts of business-critical data, including sales documents, drawings, project documentation, accounting information, employee payrolls, and purchasing orders. It’s critical to ensure this data is backed up and recoverable in the event of a significant data loss. There’s a huge variety of potential ways to lose data, such as database […]
If you send emails and you fail to encrypt them, your business is at risk! Have you: Sent proposals and quotes as an attachment in email? Sent login and password information in an email? Sent your banking information or credit card information through email? Discussed confidential projects through email? If you answered YES to these […]
Email Encryption is Essential to Protect Your Confidential Communications. There’s a few security measures that are commonly thought of as “common sense.” Of course you should download anti-virus software and firewalls! Everybody knows this, right? In all honestly, some people don’t understand the importance of security. While these security measures may appear to be “common […]
Do you take advantage of LinkedIn’s Products & Services tab to showcase or promote your products and services? If so, it’s time to discover content-sharing alternatives for your Company Page. LinkedIn will remove the Products & Services tab from all LinkedIn Company Pages on April 14th, 2014. According to LinkedIn, the feature removal results from […]
Have you ever heard the saying “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” Many companies, including Apple, tend to follow this saying and stick to their routines. However, routine can either lead to success or failure. For example, Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, acknowledged a mistake due to their typical routine. The company’s iPhone 5C failed […]
Microsoft is Expected to Unveil an Office on iPad Suite This Week! In June 2013, Microsoft released an iOS version of Microsoft Office for the iPhone. According to ZDNet and The Verge, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is planning to announce the long-awaited Microsoft Office on iPad suite on March 27th at a press event in San Francisco. […]
According to Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, 2014 is “The Era of the Personal Cloud”, because more and more users are starting to store their data on this innovative storage service. If you store documents, pictures, and videos on applications such as DropBox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive, you’re already using a […]
Promotion to Diamond-Level Status Might Hint End of Feud for Oracle and Hewlett-Packard Oracle has promoted Hewlett-Packard to the highest ranking Diamond-level status in the Oracle PartnerNetwork. HP has already achieved the Oracle Platinum level partner certification last year. This could be good news regarding the feud between the two companies. Oracle’s definition of the […]
