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Is video best for Security Awareness Training?
So you realize you need to require Security Awareness Training for everyone in your organization in order to help increase your IT security. What is the best way to deliver that training? Live training? Computer based learning? Videos?
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Make Security Awareness Training mandatory
These days one of the best defenses against criminal IT hacks is to have users who are “on the lookout” for malicious temptations. For example, anytime a user receives an e-mail message that indicates some kind of urgency.
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Would you use an Air as your next Windows laptop?
I recently needed to replace a beaten and battered Windows 7 laptop with a new one. After looking at all the hardware on the market—different laptop models—I determined that none of them stacked up against my Intel based Apple MacBook Air hardware.
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Important benefit to cloud computing
These days, more and more members of your workforce carry smartphones and/or slate devices such as the iPad. With cloud computing, often these devices work as well as using a computer to connect to your cloud services!
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How to connect multiple monitors to your computer
When you try more than one monitor, it is hard to go back to a single monitor. Many users move to three or more monitors. What if your laptop, or desktop for that matter, only has one monitor port?
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Rogue WiFi access points can cost you a great deal of money
During a recent IT and physical security audit, we found three wireless access points within a facility that were both:
- Insecure providing wide open access to whoever wanted to attach and
- unknown to the IT professionals at the facility.
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Is online backup a good idea for executives?
Executives often ask if an online backup service is a good solution.
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A surprising way employees steal from you
Our CSI and physical security auditor knows that one of the most common ways employees steal from businesses is to throw something valuable in the trash.
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The importance of physical security audits
In addition to IT security audits, many organizations are also required to perform physical security audits as well.
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Microsoft’s new management tool
Microsoft is expected to release Windows Intune later this month. For an expected $10 per month per computer, Intune provides your IT professionals a way to centrally manage your computers.
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