Posts Tagged ‘IT’
Executives-are you making informed decisions?
Often IT provides senior management with IT options, but fails to adequately inform the executives what the consequences are to a selected action.
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Is total IT security possible?
A participant at one of my presentations this year requested I tell them how to achieve, verbatim, “Total protection from employees able to reach or steal client data from work or home.”
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Capitalize on data services price drops
In this economy, data service providers are dropping prices rapidly.
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IT security insurance
Do you carry insurance for IT security? Breaches can be costly. Insurance is just stepping up to meet this need.
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When will tech become truly user friendly?
I used a wonderful ATM in Santa Barbara recently. The main screen had a space for your PIN and the buttons for $20, $40, $100, etc. All the customer needs to do is touch 4 keys for the pin and 1 key for the amount requested and DONE! No “Enter” key. Out pops the cash! So easy.
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When it comes to passwords, length is what matters
Ever heard the rumor that you need upper case letters, lower case letters, symbols, and numbers in your passwords? This is called “password complexity.” If you have to keep password complexity for compliance reasons, you have no choice, but otherwise—make your life easier—just switch to passwords that are 15 characters or longer—commonly referred to as passphrases.
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So how is Windows 7 in business?
Windows 7 is out, about, and is working great! If you have not let your IT professionals set up a test machine on Windows 7 to see how compatible the new operating system is in your environment, now is a great time to let them start.
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Do you have endearing nicknames for your IT professionals?
I did a review recently for an organization who refers to their in-house IT professional with an endearing nickname. Click here to find out more including what they call him…
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Business executives are liable for security breaches
Most executives put the IT team in charge of IT security and then forget about it until they need to approve a capital expenditure.
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