Posts Tagged ‘IT’
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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Portable scanners can help your mobile users
I carry a portable scanner with me everywhere. I can scan in receipts so my capable staff can bill clients. I scan in program evaluations to learn from valuable feedback from audiences where I speak. I scan anything important that I might need again. When I used to collect business cards, I would scan them into my CRM customer relationship management system.
If you or users in your company travel, ask yourself if there are any documents they could scan to increase productivity and improve the service you provide your customers.
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Does it help not to open e-mail from strangers?
An executive recently wrote me, “I got a virus that infected our network because I opened an e-mail message from someone I didn’t recognize – I’ll never do that again!”
While that strategy may help some, it is far from being a reliable way to protect your network. First of all, without performing some technical detective work, it is hard for a non-IT professional to tell who the e-mail came from anyway. You may get an e-mail from a cybercriminal who uses “spoofing” to make the e-mail message appear that it is coming from your best friend, bank, the FTC, or anyone else.
Better protection comes from scanning tools running at one or more locations including your e-mail server, your firewall, your spam filter, and the anti-virus client on your local machine.
Training users “not to open e-mail from strangers” is a moot point if your user is supposed to open e-mail messages from prospects interested in your company’s products and/or services. There is some training that matters though…
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