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September 01, 2017
Security You Can Control: Firewalls, USB’s
Did you know that business-class firewalls allow country blocking? We’ve seen a HUGE increase in hacking attempts from other countries, always a concern, but a very big increase of late. Blocking specific countries through a firewall is a great way to severely limit hacking attempts. Your firewall uses a lot of resources to ward off […]
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August 25, 2017
Another Email Scam and it Looks Really ‘Good’!
Sorry to interrupt your late-summer fun, but this scam has our techs calling me asking for an email blast! The email looks like it’s from Microsoft and says that there’s an attached voicemail. The actual attachment is a Word document camouflaged as a PDF. As of this writing, the anti-virus engines and VirusTotal software do […]
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August 21, 2017
Small Businesses need to protect from hackers, too
Cyber Security is the latest IT-related buzz word. As is often the case, this covers a huge range of topics, but our focus is always the small-to medium-sized business and their IT needs, so that’s where I’ll start.
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August 15, 2017
Is Your Data Safe and Secure?
Summer is upon us. Time for a stroll in the park; softball; fishing; a few rounds of golf. So how can you relax during this year’s getaway time and still have confidence your company’s computer data is safe and secure? Here’s a quick nine-step checklist you can use to ensure that your company’s computer network, […]
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August 10, 2017
Security You Can Control – 3 Tips!
The number one recommendation from our techs is that you lock your workstation or laptop when you walk away! By leaving the computer unlocked, anyone can sit down and have access to anything and everything you have rights to see and do on that machine, on the network, on the internet, remembered passwords, etc. This […]
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August 03, 2017
Moving Your Payroll In House… It Might Be Time
I’m watching a growing trend, and I’m loving it! Clients are moving their payroll back in house and back under their control, and the reasons are quite interesting. Payroll services make mistakes, and I’ll bet that’s not news to you. We’ve seen wrong hours, wrong rates, wrong dues deductions; we’ve seen wrong state unemployment rates […]
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July 28, 2017
So Your Copier Company Wants to Get Into Managed Services…
Copiers – don’t know what any of our offices would do without these machines! They scan, they fax, make copies of course; they collate; some of the big ones can staple and even bind. These are amazing and we love doing our part to keep them working over your network. But, the copier companies and […]
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July 21, 2017
Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Army Retired
I had the opportunity to hear General McChrystal talk about his experiences and the war on terrorism. We were better funded, better trained, better equipped, but we weren’t winning! This book is eye-opening – not only does it discuss the challenges we faced and are facing waging this battle, it dives into the structures of […]
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July 14, 2017
Summer Heat vs. Computers – Heat Wins Every Time
Every summer we hear from a client that has turned off the air conditioning over a long weekend to keep the electricity expenses down, only to find the server room equipment is ‘frozen’ and unresponsive. High temperatures can be a death sentence for your electronics. A server that becomes overheated usually costs more in energy […]
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July 09, 2017
Updating S100C v19 Datasets – ALL of them, please!
As we work with some new clients and guests, I’ve come across several instances where prior year datasets have been moved to a separate folder (other than the MB7/). This would be OK if each time there’s a software upgrade, they’re all moved back to the original folder, then Reindexed to the latest version – […]
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