Advice for the Wary Traveler

Do you often travel for business and stay in hotels or motels? Or, maybe sometimes you travel for pleasure? You likely lock your hotel room door after you enter it. But if you are spending time in your room surfing the Internet using the free hotel Wi-Fi, you may have left that virtual door to the outside world wide open, leaving you and your data very vulnerable.

Keep Intruders Out of Your Garden

Stinkgrass, Hairy Galinsoga, Goosegrass, Bull Thistle, Prickly Lettuce, Fizzer, Zeus, Rootkit, and Sasfis.

Do these names mean anything to you?   This is a list of nine intruders! You might not know all of them, but they sure can cause trouble for you.

What is a Computer Cookie?

A computer cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server.  The message is stored in a text file.  The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

The main purpose of cookies is to identify users and possibly prepare customized web pages for them.

Wall of Protection

 

Hear ye! Hear ye! If firewalls don’t protect your content, what do they protect?

Let’s pretend you have a castle with numerous villagers living inside. It is defenseless to invaders that are looking to conquest. As the king, what would you do? You would build a wall of protection, of course! Sure your wall doesn’t protect each villager individually, but the wall protects your castle as a whole.

Proactive Maintenance Leads to Improved Computer Health

 

“We are what we repeatedly do,” Aristotle proclaimed. We all know that we should brush our teeth twice a day, eat healthy, and get regular exercise. Sadly, not everyone does this.

Just as we should take care of our bodies, in business we should take care of our computer network because quite often it’s what makes everything flow through the business.