If you’re not familiar with workspace as a service, or WaaS for short, it’s a type of virtual desktop that allows employees and contractors working for or with a certain business entity access to a number of applications and data – and, from any location in the world. They can also do this on any […]
With so many threats to look out for, some business owners make the mistake of thinking that a simple security tactic such as your password is ineffective – but that’s not true. Your password is your first line of defence, keeping hackers and other intruders from accessing devices, resources, and applications that could seriously compromise […]
According to a recent Cybersecurity Ventures report sponsored by Herjavec Group, projections have it that cybersecurity defense costs will exceed six trillion dollars by 2021. This will be double the cybercrime expenditures paid out in 2015. This is a staggering figure, even when taking into account the many millions of dollars paid out in fines […]
In case you needed another reason for regularly changing your passwords, the recently-uncovered Yahoo hack of 500 million accounts is probably the reason of the decade so far. The hack and subsequent data theft involving half a billion Yahoo accounts is the largest of its kind – ever. Granted, it is Yahoo, where most people […]
A 2014 Yahoo hack potentially represents by far the biggest data theft on record, with information involving up to 500 million accounts stolen. Yahoo is blaming “state-sponsored” hackers, but it appears that that remark may be diversionary, as evidence of an inside job is likelier. The email host, news, and search engine giant claims that […]
Anyone with any kind of business that wants to improve their IT productivity and performance quotient should look into server monitoring. The main reason to monitor server performance is for troubleshooting problems. With proper server monitoring tools in place, you can use the available resources at hand to track down the server problems and correct […]
Even with the most carefully thought-out disaster planning, unintended consequences and sub-par performance can often be the result. In part, these undesirable outcomes occur because they are based on theory rather than actual experience. In many areas subject to specific natural disasters, the incident response or disaster plan might be called, “Earthquake Preparedness Plan” or […]
It sounds like the premise for a bad horror movie, but it’s not. The USB Kill Drive can reportedly fry an entire laptop or PC utilizing some kind of “worse-than-ransomware” nightmare program. It’s also known colloquially as a “kill stick,” and there are verified reports of this malicious USB drive being able to kill any […]
Soon, They’ll Both Be Obsolete as Biometrics Enter the Mainstream Google recently announced plans to replace digital passwords with biometrics using their “Trust API” system. Trust API monitors location, speed, voice, and typing patterns, so devices can “learn” about their owners and how their owners operate. Consumers appear to be fully on board. According […]
Mac owners have perhaps grown a bit complacent with cybersecurity over the years, the general thinking in the Apple-user camp being that Macs are safer from cyberattack than PCs. Though it may be true that Apple’s OS X has for the most part kept Mac users safer from cyberattack than their Windows/PC counterparts, that state […]
Customer engagement and relationship management is perhaps the most important aspect of sales and acquisition of client revenue. Especially with so much customer-driven feedback on the Web, which has forced companies to take another look at the importance of utilizing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software beyond the “squeaky wheel” crisis stage. Basically, SMBs and even […]
The benefits of a cloud-hosted phone system (PBX) are many, and widely-varied. For anyone tired of dealing with hard-to-manage old-school legacy systems or VoIP that’s taking up too much bandwidth and IT resources, you’ll want to consider moving to a cloud-based PBX hosting platform. Some of the main benefits include cost-efficiency, scalable options for better […]
