September 2015: Choosing a cloud provider for your business is a lot more complicated than choosing one for your home — price is only one variable, expertise makes a difference and the ability to integrate with your current system is critical. And since most mature businesses run in multiple clouds, you’re not choosing one cloud …
May 2015: If you think your employees don’t mind giving you control over their personal devices for business purposes, you’re kidding yourself. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) comes with huge privacy and mistrust issues … and research shows they’re getting worse. People identify with their devices so allowing even partial control can seem like a …
November 2014: Windows-based companies, pop that Champagne! Microsoft is about to give businesses the operating system (OS) they’ve been asking for. Windows 10 combines keyboard-friendly Windows 7 with touch-friendly Windows 8 in a single every-device-friendly OS. Here’s what you need to know and how this new OS compares to the others your company can use …
May 2014: April 2014 was the month OpenSSL became really, really famous. Not because everyone learned it’s a super-useful encryption tool that most websites use but because it had one tiny bit of bad code — a bug. And that Heartbleed bug broke Internet security for a while. Why is OpenSSL used on so many …
June 2013: Do you know what the greatest threat is to your company when you use cloud-based services? How about the nine greatest? The brainiacs at the Cloud Security Alliance, a nonprofit that researches and promotes best practices for cloud-based services, recently released its report, “The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013.” While …
APRIL 2013: If your business has hopped up to cloud computing or plans to soon, remember to discuss the unthinkable with your cloud provider — what happens if there’s a security breach, cyber attack or other illegal activity that involves your data? That’s where cloud computing forensics comes in. Cloud forensics is a developing field …
FEBRUARY 2013: Malware and botnets and shoe shopping, oh my! Filtering Internet content for malware is critical to keep your business running smooth — and so is filtering out distractions! According to IDC Research, 30-40% of all Internet use at work is not related to business. More than 60% of all online purchases (Nielsens/NetRating) and …
JANUARY 2013: If you’re like most IT-savvy business pros, when Gartner predicts something big, you hop to attention. Gartner is considered the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company — it has 1,280 research analysts and 12,000 clients internationally, so it’s pretty good at making informed guesses about IT trends. In this batch of …
DECEMBER 2012: Unless you’ve been trapped under a lily pad for the last month, you know that Windows 8 is here! But do you know what it means for your business? By completely retooling the operating system — the first major innovation since 1995 (very exciting for us frogs) — Microsoft is attempting to change …
NOVEMBER 2012: Back in the day when wireless technology was just a tadpole in the pond of business IT, your focus was on your wired network. But today, if your business is like most, what was once WiFi for “guests” is now your team’s preferred technology for getting work done. So wireless needs a lot …