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If you accept credit cards-simplify PCI-DSS

If your organization accepts credit cards, you are required to comply with PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards). This can seem ominous, so here are some tips to help you. Continue reading ‘If you accept credit cards-simplify PCI-DSS’


Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices, Save time on July 28th, 2010.

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Provide distractions to Gen Y at work?

If human multitasking is a fantasy, why would anyone give Generation Y employees access to distractions at work?

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices on June 23rd, 2010.

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Do you believe in human multitasking?

Can you, or your workers, really be productive doing more than one task at the same time? Checking e-mail while talking on the phone for instance?

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices, Save time on June 16th, 2010.

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Interruptions destroy productivity

We live in this modern world of e-mail, text messages, and social media and the constant interruptions can be devastating.

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices, Save time on June 9th, 2010.

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CEO expresses frustration regarding IT professionals

Recently, a CEO sent me a message saying about executives, “We don’t know what we don’t know, and we depend on the IT department for answers. They could tell me aliens fried their Wheaties on the backup drive for breakfast and how am I to challenge that?”

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices on April 7th, 2010.

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How is your disaster recovery plan?

A lot of organizations are revamping their IT systems now that the economy is recovering. Many are using services like server virtualization and thin client technology—both of which lend themselves to you having a great opportunity to make a more robust Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices, IT Security, Save time, Technology on March 31st, 2010.

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Executives, does your e-mail address end in AOL?

Three different highly respected business professionals communicated with me today and each of them made comments along the lines of, “Oh—that CEO is so far behind in technology that their e-mail address ends in AOL!”

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices, Save time, Technology on March 17th, 2010.

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Executives-be sure your CPA saw this article

One of my best clients, a CPA firm, forwarded a quick article from the AICPA—American Institute of CPA’s—called “Four Fast and Easy Tech Fixes.” Be sure your CPA sees it.

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices, IT Security, Technology on March 3rd, 2010.

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Is IT security pushed to the back burner?

Due to a number of problems in organizations, IT security too often gets pushed to the back burner. After a breach happens, IT often blames management, and management often blames IT. A wise friend told me many times, “It is not about fixing the blame; it is about fixing the problem.”

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices, IT Security on February 10th, 2010.

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Banks suggest you dedicate one PC for online banking

USA Today reports that the American Bankers Association (ABA) recommends small and mid-sized businesses dedicate a computer to use only for online banking, and avoid using any other computers for online banking. While this may sound good, it can create headaches in practice.

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Posted by Mike Foster in Best Practices, IT Security, Save time, Technology on January 20th, 2010.

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