Sometimes the best thing you can do is pull away from the day to day craziness and look at the big picture. See the forest thru the trees. The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to do a strategic health check.

So let’s see if we can help you with some IT strategy.

We regularly see the bad people getting into peoples “stuff”. While there are tons of ways they can attempt to get in, we definitely see a handful of popular and common attacks that stand out.

They tend to go through seasons where a few types of attacks get very popular because they work and the bad guys get in.

If you made a New Year’s resolution it may interest you to know that there’s probably an app for that.

Are you already well into the download frenzy to keep track of your new goals? You need to know that you should be making safety a priority.

Let’s do something different. I’m not going to talk about tech news, security alerts or even the fun tools and tricks stuff. I want to give a quick peek behind our digital curtain and share something about our team and our clients.

I’ve always been super aware and thankful that I work with an amazing set of people.

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We live in a world where everything is at our fingertips. Cell phones and tablets mean we have our address books, email, calendars, and even data with us always. One of the most requested features is to be able to access the office from offsite and work on data and information without coming in to the office.

America’s favorite hobbies, it seems, is tracing our family tree. Nothing could be easier. We only have to send off a saliva sample and then upload the results in the hope of finding long lost relatives. However, there is a big trade off if you do that, according to security experts.

In just a matter of few months, an average company could double its stored data. As new laws require businesses to keep information for an increased period of time, it's up to the organization to obey the regulations and to create an effective mechanism for managing their records.

David Parizek officially became the CIO of InfoStream on his 13th anniversary of working with InfoStream. In addition to his top level engineering work, he will be playing a more active role in overseeing and implementing new technology for InfoStream.