Spring has sprung, and you’re already busy clearing out all the clutter that accumulated during the winter months. But shiny floors and polished tennis trophies won’t keep you in business. A reliable and robust network will. When your network is a mess, employees waste time troubleshooting, customers disengage, and revenue is lost.
Finding the right tools for your business sometimes can be a daunting task. However, choosing the right phone system doesn’t have to be. Every business needs some type of phone service whether it is for you to contact customers, for customers to contact you or even for communications between employees.
It has never been more important to protect your data. According to a McAfee Report, the total cost of cyber-crime in 2018 was over $600 billion. Hackers are constantly scanning websites and networks for vulnerable targets to steal information from including usernames, passwords, and credit card information.
Hurricane season is right around the corner. And in today’s digital age it’s easy to distract ourselves from the fact that we live in the physical world where real-life disasters are a potent threat to our computing capabilities. This March, taking the time to observe one relatively obscure holiday could be the difference between getting pummeled by the elements or being truly prepared.
A slow or unreliable WiFi connection is an easy thing to fix, and will improve employee productivity and decrease frustration in the office. Before upgrading your wireless router, check out our tips below for simple connectivity fixes.
Analyze Your Router’s Position
Just because you no longer need an ethernet cable to connect to the Internet, doesn’t mean you are totally free to connect wherever, whenever.
Are you using Windows 7, older versions of Outlook for email, or Windows Server version 2011 and below? If so, it’s time to learn about Microsoft’s End of Life Support. You do not want to find yourself in need of tech support for an unsupported product.
When it comes to security, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This can make big organizations especially vulnerable, because complex structures offer more opportunities for a security breach.
This can in turn lead to huge digital bureaucratic structures that hamper daily operations with inefficient procedures, and paradoxically create even more loopholes that can be exploited.
The Internet has made life easier for the majority of people. You can bank online, view results of your medical tests, access your email from anywhere, among countless other tasks that are all protected by just one thing: your password. And, for nearly three percent of Internet users, cracking your password is as easy as stringing six consecutive numbers together.
Have you made any Resolutions for the New Year? As another year passes us by, the start of 2019 comes with promises of many new technologies that you, as a business decision-maker, can resolve to help grow your business. Though these new avenues can open many doors for your business, these advancements are also creating new vulnerabilities and avenues for hackers, thieves, and phishers to take advantage of.
