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6 Simple Tips to Protect Your Customer Data
6 Simple Tips to Protect Your Customer Data As cyber-attacks continue to make headlines, hackers are exposing or selling customer data files in record numbers. But just like with any threat, there are actions you can take to minimize risk and ensure your business...
Protecting Shared Computers for Work from Home
Many families today have a shared home computer to help with day-to-day activities. A teen can search for a job and stream shows. A parent can check work emails, pay household bills, and shop online. A youngster can play an educational game to buy Mom or Dad a few...
The Accountant’s IT Checklist – Don’t Miss These Important Technology Tips
As nearly every other industry, accountants rely on their technology infrastructure in everything they do, from compiling tax returns, to keeping clients’ books, to sending a file internally or externally. Keeping that technology running at peak efficiency improves...
Email Like a Pro with These 8 Cool Productivity Hacks for Outlook 2016
A good deal of our lives is spent in our email inbox. There are very few businesses, if any, that could run without email to communicate with customers, vendors, and each other. But sorting through all those emails can take time and can eat away a chunk of the...
Demystifying Email: Webmail vs POP3 vs IMAP vs Exchange. Which Should Your Company Use?
When email is first set up in a desktop mail program or smartphone, most people don’t give much thought to whether they should choose IMAP or POP3 they just follow the prompts, so they can get it working as soon as possible. Webmail clients like Gmail and professional...
5 Essential Ways a Next-Generation Firewall Can Secure Your Business Network
In part one of our series on network security, we discussed the dangers of an insecure network and how businesses can suffer major breaches and resulting losses without proper security. Now, we’re going to tell you the best way to keep your network secure. Small...
The Dangers & Risks of an Insecure Business Network (Is Your Network Truly Secure?)
Networking computers and devices to communicate with each other and the outside world is a business necessity. It’s allowed many conveniences such as printing wirelessly from several computers to one device and utilizing cloud backup systems. But for all the modern...
Simple Tips for Backing Up Your Computer Systems the Right Way
In part 1 of this blog series on backups we discussed the 7 most common data backup mistakes. Now, we’re going to give you some simple tips to back up your IT systems correctly. One of the worst feelings is when a computer has just crashed and won’t reboot, and you...
Are You Making One of These 7 Common Mistakes with Your Backups?
Anyone that’s suffered data loss, which unfortunately is most of us at one time or another, knows that backing up your data regularly is critical. Data loss can happen anytime without warning due to computer crashes, lost/stolen devices, viruses, or natural disasters....
Get All Your Reporting in One Place! Learn How with Microsoft’s Power BI
You’ve got marketing metrics coming in from Mail Chimp, lead funnel data from Sales Force, and website conversion stats from Google Analytics. Each one is in a different report, disconnected. Trying to tie them all together into one actionable picture can be...