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.

InfoStream prides itself on providing the highest quality service possible. We are constantly evaluating our support options and adjusting how we operate to ensure we are doing everything we can to keep client networks running smoothly and efficiently. While historically we have limited our services to standard business hours (Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM), that has now changed.

Nobody wants to hear about it or think about it, but the fact of the matter is hurricane season is upon us. Hurricane season officially started on June 1st and runs through November 30th in the Atlantic. While risking sounding like a home improvement store commercial, are you prepared for hurricane season?

Hurricane preparedness for your business IT systems consists of a proper disaster recovery plan.

In today's world of computerizing everything, we all find ourselves with lots of files on our computers. Everything from instruction manuals, to music, to financial software is ending up on our hard drives. Inevitably we find out that some of those files ended up in a location we really don't want them.

"Go clean your room!"

Whoops, I mean 'Go clean your computer!'

Just like every other piece of equipment, computers get dirty. Now, dirty can mean a couple of different things. Some dirt is physical, and can be cleaned out with a damp rag.

In the last article on PCI compliance (see PCI compliance 101 – March newsletter) we talked about needing to keep your PCI compliance house in order. In this article we take a look at some of the complexities of the process.

The requirements to protect credit card information span people, processes and technology.

In this short article let's take a look at what PCI compliance is and how to be complaint.

If your store or business accepts credit cards then from the first time you processed a card with your point of sale (POS) computer you were obligated to comply with computer security as dictated by the credit card companies whose cards you accept.