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.
“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.
Wi-Fi access has come to be seen as a universal right by many. With so many of us using Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices these days, it is easy to understand why so many see it as a right. But even if that is true, does someone have the right to access YOUR Wi-Fi? The answer is no.
Ken Toumey avoids a walk on the wild side and shares key reasons for running anti-virus software.
Baby, baby it’s a wild world and on the internet it’s even wilder. Any major dude will tell you. So if you want your computers and networks to run in harmony, we suggest you don’t be crazy.
“Many people look forward to the New Year for a
new start on old habits.”
- Author Unknown
In the 1987 classic movie Spaceballs, when Lord Dark Helmet discovers King Roland's insecure password he screams, “The combination is 12345! That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life!” Fast forward 25 plus years.
Sony, Home Depot, Target. All are big companies with huge market value, large customer databases, strong brand names and plenty of budget to spend on data security. The same cannot be said for organizations in the small business community. But are there lessons from these breaches that can provide learning to the owner or manager of a small business? Yes, there certainly are.
Recently, we visited a new prospect who was interested in our services. We spent a few minutes with the controller discussing the issues and opportunities he was facing with their computer network. We identified and discussed a number of issues: network speed, age of equipment, problems with emails, printers/scanners not working, the server going down on occasion and finally the poor support they received from the existing outside IT support firm.
You would have to have not been exposed to any news media recently to not have heard about the large data breaches at Home Depot and Target. Reports indicated that over 100 million customer credit and debit card numbers have been compromised by the hackers behind these breaches.
Recently we met with a middle age business owner and conducted our proprietary and highly valuable free assessments of his computer network. Candidly, this business owner was on top of his technology to a fair extent. He was knowledgeable, kept things up to date, and was aware that he would need to upgrade his server within a year as it reaches its "End of Life.
Kevin Cordell, CEO and Owner of Madison Management Services, LLC is an adept and skilled business manager with a track record of success and a host of experience in a variety of industries and roles. However, Kevin will tell you that networking technology is not one of them and when he needs guidance, he seeks the highest level of outside expertise.
