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We all know protecting your companies data and your private data is becoming even more important than ever before.  Here is a great site that shows real time global cyber attacks that can be a real eye opener and interesting to watch:  http://map.

Up until very recently, if you became the victim of credit fraud, your bank came to your rescue. However all that has changed and the burden is now on the retailer or business owner. This is all down to the little chip which has been added to your credit cards.

written by Henry Verlander

One of the most significant differences in the types of data traveling the internet today is whether the data is encrypted and not encrypted. The difference is a critical security issue, but would you believe that encryption could possibly be a bad thing! Perhaps you have seen the warnings that some internet browsers will pop-up to you, telling you that your data might be visible to others.

written by Henry Verlander

Does your office have a copier that sends scans to you via email?   Do you receive notifications from your backup software via email.   If you have a device or software program that sends email, you might take that small task for granted, but you shouldn’t.   All email must be routed through an email server, and if you don’t have one, then you’ll need to use someone else’s.   That’s where Microsoft Office 365 comes in.

What would be the single most devastating loss that could hit your business? Bankrupt you, or put you out of a job? For most it would be losing your most valuable asset – your data.
Ironically, most firms are on the blissfully unaware they are on the edge of disaster.

What would be the single most devastating loss that could hit your business?  Bankrupt you, or put you out of a job?  For most it would be losing your most valuable asset – your data.

Ironically, most firms are blissfully unaware they are on the edge of disaster.

By Luis Debs-Mallar of Infostream.

If you watch or read the news you have heard of CryptoLocker, one of the most notorious of the Ransomware type of malwares that have recently popped up in our modern digitally connected society, and the trend-setter of the type that encrypt files until a payment is made in exchange for the private key.

We’ve all been there. You have a great idea that you want to tell the world about. But then as you do your research, somebody else has beaten you to it, and has done such a great job you just can’t improve on it. Danielle Major over at Ki Consultants, Inc.

Alan wrote an article about disaster recover which was published in Solutions Review in which he highlighted how so many companies are on the brink of disaster without even knowing it and how fixing IT’s biggest problem is an easy thing to fix.

He talked about backup and disaster recovery.