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Build a better firewall?
Your IT professionals can protect you even more than they are now.
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What is a qualified presenter?
If you decide to have a live presentation, such as for Security Awareness Training, how do you identify a qualified presenter?
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Are live presentations best for Security Awareness Training?
My last post covered Security Awareness Training via videos and/or internet. What about using a live presenter?
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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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Don’t install anti-virus on your computers?
If you use a cloud service to provide anti-virus to your computers, you don’t need to install anti-virus anymore.
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Old-school anti-virus is no longer the best protection
Anti-virus sounds like a great feature, right? But anti-virus can be ineffective in fighting newer threats.
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Firewalls offer less protection than you think
Most executives, and sometimes IT professionals, feel that firewalls are the most important component for protecting organizations against outside attacks, but firewalls can be ineffective.
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Cloud computing problems and concerns
Just how important is “moving to the cloud” for your organization?
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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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