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Managed IT4 Practical Steps for Vendor Cloud Backup
When you entrust your business data to a cloud-based platform, you expect it to be safe and sound. However, most cloud platforms like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Salesforce acknowledge their backup shortcomings and recommend having an additional backup and recovery solution for your cloud-based data.
December 21, 2022 3 min -
CybersecurityData Breach at Sequoia One Exposes Sensitive Customer Information
What do you do when your most personal information has been compromised? This is likely the question that customers of Sequoia One asked themselves earlier this month as they were informed that the company had been hacked.
December 20, 2022 3 min -
CybersecurityCisco Reports Critical IP Phone Vulnerability
As a business owner, it's important to stay informed about potential vulnerabilities that could impact your organization. Recently, Cisco reported a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20968, affecting its IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series.
December 19, 2022 2 min -
Managed IT4 Core Benefits of Cloud Backup for SaaS Platforms
Businesses like yours are increasingly adopting cloud-based solutions to keep up with the rapidly changing technological landscape. According to a recent study by Gartner, cloud adoption will not slow down anytime soon.*
December 19, 2022 3 min -
Technology TrendsGoogle Chrome Releases Two New Features
Google Chrome is one of the more commonly used web browsers. Over the years, though, Chrome has gained a reputation for utilizing a large portion of a computer's memory. This can be a problem if you're running other resource-intensive tasks and don't want to slow things down.
December 17, 2022 2 min -
CybersecurityLast Microsoft Edge Update for 2022
A new version of Microsoft Edge is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. While the update is relatively small, it contains two feature upgrades and significant security fixes, including one for the Chromium engine's "Type confusing in V8" vulnerability.
December 16, 2022 2 min -
CybersecurityWhen Can You Finally Forget Your Password?
Passkeys are becoming more popular as more of the big names in password management announce their support for something new.
December 15, 2022 1 min -
Business Operations7 Things to Consider When Getting a New Computer to Avoid Buyer's Remorse
Have you ever bought a new computer and then had buyer’s remorse a few months later? Maybe you didn’t pay attention to the storage capacity and ran out of space. Or you may have glossed over memory and experienced constant freeze-ups.
December 14, 2022 5 min -
Technology TrendsAdobe Acrobat Streamlines PDF Experiences in Microsoft Teams
Whether you're a student or an employee, digital documents are now essential for the future of work. While there are different types of digital documents, one of the most often used document formats is PDF. Today, millions of PDF files are exchanged between users worldwide.
December 13, 2022 2 min -
CybersecuritySocial Media Identity Theft
As a business owner, what would you do if someone created a fake social media account with your name, your picture, and your images only to then reach out to your friends, family members, and customers with the sole purpose of scamming them out of large sums of cash?
December 12, 2022 3 min -
CybersecurityApple Announces Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
Apple released several new security features on December 7th, 2022, designed to keep users' sensitive data and communications secure. Advanced Data Protection for iCloud is one of the most notable features for Apple users. In order to protect sensitive data stored in iCloud, such as voice memos, photos, notes, and more, Apple's new Advanced Data Protection feature uses end-to-end encryption. With Advanced Data Protection, Apple is expanding the number of data categories to 23 from the current 14.
December 10, 2022 2 min -
CybersecurityAre Your Employees Holiday Shopping From Work?
We are in the holiday season and that means a lot of online shopping which also means online scams are in full bloom.
December 8, 2022 1 min -
Managed IT99 Problems but Cloud Backup Isn’t 1
Data loss is a genuine threat to all businesses. Not only can it cost a lot of time, money and other resources to fix, but it can also be a huge pain to deal with when you have other pressing business matters to handle. While there are plenty of reasons data can be lost, such as hardware damage, software malfunctions and natural disasters, the most frequent cause is something as simple as human error.
December 8, 2022 4 min -
CybersecurityWhat Are the Advantages of Implementing Conditional Access?
It seems that nearly as long as passwords have been around, they’ve been a major source of security concern. Eighty-one percent of security incidents happen due to stolen or weak passwords. Additionally, employees continue to neglect the basics of good cyber hygiene.
December 7, 2022 4 min -
CybersecuritySiriusXM Flaw Unlocks Vehicles and More
A somewhat concerning flaw has been fixed by SiriusXM that would allow unauthorized individuals to unlock doors remotely and start engines by only having the vehicle identification number (VIN).
December 6, 2022 2 min -
CybersecurityEnd-to-End Encryption for Dropbox Business Users
Dropbox has announced its plans to purchase several key assets from Boxcryptor so that it is able to provide end-to-end encryption for its business users. In addition, the partial merger between the two companies will enable Dropbox to better meet its client's needs, including an enhanced level of security for cloud storage.
December 5, 2022 2 min -
CybersecurityLastest LastPass Security Incident
According to LastPass CEO Karim Toubba, the password manager has been hacked once again.
December 3, 2022 2 min -
Managed ITMyths About Business Cloud Backup Platforms
Your data is essential for your business's success. There’s no doubt about it in the modern digitized era. However, not having a backup for your cloud-based service provider can result in the loss of this valuable data.
December 2, 2022 3 min -
CybersecurityAmazon Security Lake Aims to Enhance Cybersecurity for Businesses
The new security-focused data lake solution from Amazon Web Services (AWS), unveiled at re:Invent 2022, aims to give consumers more value from their security data.
December 2, 2022 2 min -
Technology TrendsHow AI is Transforming Businesses
While artificial intelligence (AI) is seen as a new phenomenon in mainstream society, it is not a new concept. As AI technologies increase, AI is becoming increasingly important for companies looking to stay competitive.
December 1, 2022 2 min
