When building an extended Wi-Fi network, there are two methods to extend coverage to areas with poor signal quality: Wireless Access Points and Wireless Network Repeaters (also called Wireless Network Extenders by some manufacturers). In this post, we'll cover exactly what each device is and how … Read More
Ransomware – What To Do If You Are Infected
Ransomware still remains one of the most notorious forms of malicious attacks out on the internet, and won’t be going away any time soon. It now takes very little effort for someone to make their own Ransomware variant, as evident by all the new strains popping up every day. With so many variations, … Read More
What is HIPAA compliance?
What is HIPAA? HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 that was enacted by Congress and signed into law in 1996. There are many provisions to HIPAA covering many items mostly dealing with health insurance and regulations on what can be offered and how. … Read More
Why is Patch Management Important For Cyber Security?
Before we jump into why patch management is important, we should define what patches are and what patch management is. What are patches? Patches are software code fixes that repair broken functionality, add new functionality, or fixes security holes in software. Patches have been around a long … Read More
Do I still need endpoint Malware protection?
If you've used a computer anytime over the past 20 years, you've probably been infected by a virus, malware, or some other malicious piece of software. You may have been lucky and been able to get it cleaned off without much trouble or maybe you weren't so lucky and lost data. Think about today, … Read More
What you need to know about Data Encryption?
You may have come across the word encryption recently in the news. It’s becoming a bit of a hot topic in the media as more and more eyes shift to covering the ever expanding world of computer crime. Governments are focusing on it to try and gain the ability to decrypt files when necessary, and … Read More
Are you protecting your employees’ information?
This blog post was inspired by some recent news I heard about a company some of my friends work for. They just had an incident where someone spoofed the email address of an executive in the company and all of the employees’ W-2s were emailed to an unknown party. All of the people that work … Read More
Lost “it” in Windows 10? Here’s where to find it.
If you’ve recently made the jump from Windows 7 to Windows 10, or even from Windows 8, you might be surprised to see just how much has changed in your new Operating System. With such a user interface design change, you may be lost trying to find things such as "My Computer". Here are some of the … Read More
What are Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems?
You may not be aware of Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) as they relate to Information Technology (IT), but the concept is simple enough – an IPS is like the lock on your front door, it keeps people from being able to simply walk in and go through all of your … Read More
Benefits of Cloud Backup versus On-Site Backup
We live in a world today where cybersecurity is one of the most important factors a company must consider when making decisions about their data and network. Part of this discussion must be data backups as they are extremely important. You absolutely must have backups of your data. With … Read More
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