With the End-Of-Life date coming soon for Windows 7, It's inevitable that the beloved Windows Operating System is dying. It has that all too familiar terminal illness called End-of-Life. Microsoft has announced that it is pulling the plug January 14, 2020 on the version of Windows that most of us … Read More
What is patch management for 3rd party software?
What are patches? Patches can be seen as some type of hotfix. Everyday exploits, bugs, and security risks are found within programs, and these are what the patches would fix. A bug in the software could be a failure or fault that could cause it to behave in unintended ways. If you think of an … Read More
Vulnerability in popular tool WinRAR is being used to install malware
"Earlier this month Check Point Research reported discovery of a 19 year old code execution vulnerability in the wildly popular WinRAR compression tool. Rarlab reports that there are over 500 million users of this program. While a patched version, 5.70, was released on February 26, attackers are … Read More
Newly Discovered Zero-Day Vulnerability Found in Google Chrome
In order to stay secure using Google Chrome, you need to update your browser immediately. There is a security vulnerability in the FileReader component of Chrome that could allow remote attacker to access memory and execute code to take unauthorized control of your machine. Here's the … Read More
SandStorm IT Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet
In this post, we'll keep an ongoing list of keyboard shortcuts from posts that have been listed in previous blog posts like "6 Keyboard Shortcuts You May Not Know" and "6 More Keyboard Shortcuts You May Not Know". In this "Cheat Sheet", we'll have all of them listed, but with more concise … Read More
How can software licensing affect my business?
One of the biggest, and sometimes costliest mistakes that we see businesses make today is failing to consider the cost of software licensing when purchasing new hardware or software for completing business tasks. These days licensing costs, for many, are a cost of doing business. But what is … Read More
6 More Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You May Not Know
Based on our first "6 Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You May Not Know" post, we decided that it was time to do another one with even more shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts give you an easy way to accomplish certain tasks faster and more efficiently. In this post, we'll be going over some of the keyboard … Read More
What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Software?
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is software that monitors traffic and prevents sensitive data from leaving your network. Sensitive data could be something as simple as social security numbers or be something as complex as business documents or data that contain proprietary trade … Read More
How is Office 365 different than the standard version of Office?
If you've ever wondered "What's the difference between Office 2016 and Office 365?", we hope to clear up that distinction and maybe even answer some questions you might have about the two products. It's confusing. I know. And visiting Microsoft's official website makes it even more unclear and can … Read More
Are you still running your business on spreadsheets?
Are you using spreadsheets to run your business? Frequently, we are consulted to improve upon business processes with automation and integration through custom software only to find out they are running everything from accounting, payroll, inventory management, BI reporting, daily diaries, and … Read More