What Is ‘The Cloud’? 19 Tips
If you’re a business owner or someone who uses the Internet regularly (and who doesn’t?) you have heard people talk about “the cloud.” What is the cloud? Do you know if you’re using it? Are you using it correctly? More importantly, is your data safe in the cloud? We have the answers about the cloud […]
Did Your Business Continuity Plan Work? 5 Checkpoints
If things worked as they were supposed to, your company’s business continuity and disaster recovery plan worked as it was supposed to. Being shut down or having to relocate your employees to work from home because of the coronavirus pandemic might not have caused a ripple in your customer service or retention. If you didn’t […]
How To Have A Safe Password: 5 Tips
You don’t need to be involved in the SolarWinds and Russian hacking incident to need to know how to have a safe password. Every person and every business needs to understand password security, know how to make the best possible and strongest password AND how to remember where/what they are. There is nothing worse than […]
Create A Biz Continuity Plan: 3 Steps
What is the one piece of equipment your business requires to get its work done? If you answered, “computers” you’re right. We talk with our clients about how to create a strong biz continuity plan: 3 steps and why they need one. In the past, computers didn’t play a large or such a crucial role […]
How Well Did Your BCDR Work During Pandemic?
As part of our work with clients, we urge them to implement a business continuity and disaster recovery plan (BCDR). These plans help a company quickly adapt to an emergency situation or a fast-changing work environment. This definitely occurred during the coronavirus pandemic and an almost immediate switch to a work-from-home culture. Whether you had […]
How To Protect Yourself From Holiday Hackers: 8 Tips
Cyber attacks are not a holiday-only disturbance to your online identity and overall feeling of well-being. How to protect yourself from holiday hackers is something we talk with our clients about all the time. Believe us, when you’ve suffered identity theft or a ransomware attack – you feel violated. Some people liken it to having […]
5 Ways To Protect Identity This Shopping Season
We have put together this list of 5 ways to protect identity this shopping season. Don’t let the Grinch aka a cyber hacker ruin your holiday season. 2020 has done enough to all of us in terms of canceling trips, quarantining, losing jobs and suffering ransomware and phishing attacks at work that you don’t want […]
Hacks Hit 65 Percent Of Financial Institutions
Covid-19 and the pandemic has lead to more people working from home. It’s a great thing for the business owner and the employee who were able to continue working and serving customers during the coronavirus pandemic BUT that work from home culture has caused an increase in cyberattacks and hacks. Why have cyberattacks increased? Because […]
Data And The 2020 Elections: 3 Comments
According to an article in The Washington Post, many more states — in this election year — had paper ballots which would be helpful in verifying the ballot counts. You can read the entire article at the link above. Cybersecurity, data and the 2020 elections: three comments from Seth Melendez who operates from the position […]
5 Surefire Ways To Keep Remote Workers Connected
Remote workers are here to stay, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic — that is certainly how it seems, right? We held out hope that the country would get the pandemic under control and that life would go back to business as usual. So far, in the middle of November, we are eight months in and […]