MSPmentor 100 Small Business Edition – Worldwide
Source: PRlog (Press Release Distribution)
InfoStream, Inc. has landed on Nine Lives Media’s MSPmentor 100 Small Business Edition a new list that honors the world’s top managed service providers (MSPs).
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Despite top of the line antivirus and antispyware protections in place, the spyware creators are still able to create items that get through the filters and cause infections. (But that’s not what this article is about). The most common methods of infection are still infected attachments to emails and “drive-by” hits from websites while browsing the Internet.
As we approach the end of 2012, it's time to give some thought as to what your IT needs may look like in 2013. If you haven't already, it's a great idea to put a budget together for new hardware (computers, servers, infrastructure upgrades such as firewalls, backups, and network devices), and any software upgrades you have been putting off for a while.
With hurricane season fading into history yet again, we can relax knowing our network and data are safe again. The dangerous storms have come and gone and we can focus on the next item on the to-do list. We’ve successfully saved our data and our jobs…or have we?
Although storms and weather get a lot of attention for the damage and outages they cause, there is another, more subtle danger that can be just as catastrophic to your network and to your business.
You've worked with it for years. You know more about it than you do about your favorite pet. But do you really know your network? How many user accounts do you have that are no longer in use? Do you know how many times you've installed your licensed software? Have you recently looked into those errors on your workstations?
Sometimes all of those little details can seem overwhelming.
Author: Toffi de Havillande
I have often read about how technology today allows people to work effectively from anywhere in the world, be it from home, branch office, hotel or even on the move. I had thought ‘how brilliant’ but assumed this was reserved for the world of the very well equipped, tech savvy elite.
Imagine that your competitor or a former employee steals some propriety information of your business, such as its customer list, trade secrets, or computer code. Now imagine that in the ensuing lawsuit, your business is able to obtain an instruction from the Judge directing the Jury to make an adverse inference from the fact that the thief failed to properly maintain e-mails, didn't produce them, lost, or even destroyed them.
"Alright. Nobody move or the spreadsheets get hurt. Just do as I ask and I won’t hurt any files. Give me all the money in the drawer and I’ll leave quietly."
Unfortunately, this is not the plot for the next Mission: Impossible movie. It is actually the most recent big spyware attack, called Ransomware.
A common complaint from many users is that surfing the Internet takes so long loading pages. Gone are the days where the culprit was the slow Internet connections. There are still many possible reasons for being forced to wait on pages to load, and not all of them are under your control.
