One of the great advantages of the Internet is the connectivity that it offers the world, which allows communications and business transactions to take place almost instantaneously. Yet this connectivity comes at a price as cybercriminals can also use this connectivity to interfere with businesses much more easily and effectively. As a matter of good…
Many businesses may be holding themselves back by not committing to the proper use and maintenance of their technology. As a result, worker productivity suffers and consequently, so does the business’s return on their tech investments. Is your technology holding your business back from maxing out profits? In a survey conducted by CIO Insight, it…
The technology your company uses has to come from somewhere, and if you’re like most companies, that somewhere will be from technology vendors. To prevent your company from being taken advantage of, we recommend establishing the following practices to best deal with your vendors. Review your ContractsWhen did you last take a look at your…
Well, it’s official: out of anyone who claims that 2016 was a rough year, Yahoo had the worst. The technology company was discovered to be the target of two of the largest data breaches on record. In December, Yahoo released a breach notification stating that, in addition to the 500 million-account breach in 2014 that…
There’s no doubt that Samsung took a hit with its exploding Galaxy Note 7, but there never seemed to be a truly definitive answer as to why it exploded in the first place. To find that answer, a manufacturing engineering company dissected the device. What they found explains a lot. Instrumental, the company who acquired…
Your firewall and virus protections could be fully updated, your network sealed tight, your privacy and permissions measures comprehensive–and you could still be vulnerable to security breaches. What’s more, this vulnerability would come from the single element of your security solution that can’t be updated with a few clicks: your end users. Whether or not…
If someone kicked in your business’s front door, swaggered over to your data storage and uploaded all of your private data, it’s almost certain that you’d want to press charges against them. If someone were to do the same thing, but digitally, you’d likely want to do the same to them. However, prosecuting cyber crime…
If you’re a user of the ridesharing app Uber, you might be surprised to know just how much the company knows about you, thanks to their updated privacy policy. For example, the app will now continue to track a rider’s position even after the ride has ended and the rider has left the car. If…
It’s not an uncommon phenomenon–being at a workstation in the early afternoon seems to make even the most diligent employee suddenly sluggish and disinterested. Fortunately for the busy business owner, there are a few different strategies to help address this perfectly natural occurrence. First, why do employees start yawning at 1:30 in the first place?Unfortunately,…
So you’re in the market for an IT provider. What is it that you look for? Do you want a provider who waits until your technology is broken before taking action, or would you prefer one who prevents this from happening in the first place? Chances are that you’re of the former mindset, and you’re…
