For business owners, client data is one of the most valuable assets you manage. Every email address, contract, payment detail, or personal record entrusted to your company represents trust. When that trust is compromised, the consequences can be immediate and long-lasting. Protecting client data is no longer just an IT issue. It’s a core business…
“Managed service provider” is a generic term that gets thrown around a lot, but isn’t always explained as thoroughly as it should be. In this blog, we’ll provide a few examples of things managed services providers do in order to clarify.
Internet outages. Cyberattacks. Outdated software and hardware. All of these things, while easily avoidable, can disrupt or even completely halt business operations. If you’re in search of an IT company on Long Island to prevent these sorts of things, ask each candidate these questions before hiring them.
If your business depends on technology to ensure smooth operations, you know how stressful and inconvenient it is when that technology malfunctions. Whether your infrastructure is faulty, your software is slow or you’ve suffered a data breach, outsourcing whoever’s in charge of your tech solutions is likely what your business needs.
Since technology is integral to the operations of your business, it’s vital to have qualified professionals to manage it. You may be thinking about hiring an IT support company instead of using an in-house tech team. If that’s the case, you should learn what exactly IT companies do.
Whether they know it or not, any person who has used a computer has been confronted with malware. But what is malware, anyway, and how can it be prevented from infecting a computer?
Our world was decidedly simpler when there was no omnipresent threat of cyber-terror or cyber-vandalism. Today’s computer world is not the happy go-lucky world of developers dedicated to opening up new streams of communication. No, the digital world over the past few years has gone a bit rogue.
Security experts across the globe have been working around the clock to create patches for the Shellshock bug that uncovered 20 years of server vulnerability on systems using Bash. It’s beginning to appear that despite the longstanding claim that Apple products are less susceptible to viruses than PCs, internal bugs are just as easily exploited…
If you thought that Heartbleed was bad, brace yourselves for the server vulnerability that we’re up against now. Last week, a 20-year-old bug was discovered that affects almost all Linux and Mac OS X deployments. You heard that correctly: malware that’s not confined to PCs. The new bug is called Shellshock, and it affects Bash,…
So now that you know what’s stored in your web browser history, let’s work on how to clear your search engine history. There could be plenty of reasons you’d want to erase your search history—you’re on a public computer, you share your computer with other people, you don’t want your previous search history to influence…