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As mobile devices continue to evolve become more critical to business success, many business owners are forced to answer this question.  Do you allow employees to “Bring Your Own Device” or BYOD to work or do you provide “Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled” devices?

What are the risks with B.Y.O.D.?  Here are 3 major risks for you to consider:

An employee’s device that connects to your network could be a conduit for viruses, hackers, and thieves.

At our last Lunch'n'Learn, we heard some great strategies to improve our productivity with Outlook.  Here's one more: 

I've been using an Outlook add-in called SimplyFile for several years and simply can't live without it.  It watches your email filing habits and learns where would typically file an email message from a particular person or with a common subject line.

So, what are some of the technical ramifications of the proliferation of video?  I’m glad you asked! We covered just the topic in our joint Lunch’n’Learn with Grey Sky Films in April. 

The faster Internet speeds available to today have fueled the explosion of new ways of using video.

On April 26th, we celebrated Cinco de Mayo a few days early with Grey Sky Films.  They shared with us some tips for spicing up your marketing using video.  We thought we’d recap them here:

Tip #1 Company Overview video – Use video to tell your story.

It’s early July and we’ve already had some pretty severe weather. One simple device can protect your computer, printer and other network equipment from unexpected power surges – yup, the lofty surge protector.

Circuit breakers offer some protection but they weren’t built to protect sensitive computer electronics.

Tom, one of our resident virus experts, shared this article reviewing a report that Google produces.  The report summarizes the amount of websites that Google detected as compromised or actively distributing malware.  To quote the blog commentator, Daniel Cid, "What is really scary from their report is the amount of legitimate compromised sites hosting malware compared to sites developed by the bad guys for malicious purposes.

What motivates people to create computer viruses?  Well, the ability to cripple a network is one motivator!
 
Computer crippling viruses are still out there but not as often as viruses mentioned in previous emails.  The reason being is that if a computer is disabled, it is no longer able to spread the virus to other computers.

What motivates people to create computer viruses?  Well, Identity Theft is a big motivator!
 
Viruses designed to steal sensitive information sift through the traffic to and from a computer for interesting information such as passwords or credit card numbers.