Realize that of all the professional relationships that can make or break your business, your relationship with your IT support staff is one of the most critical. In fact, it’s just as critical as is your relationship with your CPA, your banker, and even your attorney. When your IT staff feels supported and acknowledged, and when they’re armed with the proper technology, they can single-handedly keep your company from losing data, losing work time, and losing customer confidence.
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Posted by Mike Foster on November 18th, 2007 in Best Practices, IT Security.
In 2006, the FBI partnered with 313 companies who agreed to be in a study about IT security. The companies came from various sectors, such as medical, education, transportation, manufacturing, and many more. Combined, these companies lost over $52 million due to various types of security breaches, including viruses, theft of proprietary information, network abuse, and data sabotage. That’s $167,000 plus per company! You certainly don’t want to be part of that loss.
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Posted by Mike Foster on October 14th, 2007 in IT Security.
Are you protected if your hard drive crashes today?
Your newsletter this month is devoted to “backups” since audiences this month have been so interested in this topic. Let’s face it, although there are a lot of proactive people in the world, most people don’t get serious about backing up their computers until they have experienced the loss of their work. The pain of losing months (or years) of hard work can be devastating.
Of course, for your networks and your servers, you have RAID 5 striped sets with parity keeping your data safe. This e-zine is devoted to your desktop computers; there is a new personal backup tool on the block that is very impressive.
This newsletter last spoke of GHOST in February 2003 in the article “Help - The Computer Ate my Data.” You can review that article for a more in-depth look at backups.
Recently, Symantec released the new GHOST version 9 that is nothing short of amazing. Apparently drawing heavily on the recently purchased Drive Image from PowerQuest, this new version of GHOST is impressive.
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Posted by Mike Foster on September 12th, 2006 in Best Practices, Technology.
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Posted by Mike Foster on August 12th, 2006 in Best Practices.
How Do You Show Your IT Support Staff That You Care (And Do You?)
