Other than when playing the board game, managing “risk” is never a game. Our newest client manages risk as its core competency. They are in the business of high powered insurance products and services, and work full time at minimizing risk for their clients.
It’s a Zoo Out There!
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Francis Bacon once quipped that “knowledge is power.” Your business’ security is only as good as your users, so making sure your users have the power they need to keep your information safe is key to your business’ well-being.
Security can be a lot to tackle, considering that it covers everything from locking the doors to being aware of malicious payloads embedded in unscrupulous emails.
The heart is the engine of life. Your heart beats and it delivers oxygen-rich blood to the rest of your body. Without it, you cannot survive. Many will debate what the heartbeat of a business is—its customers, its culture, its purpose or something other.
Healthy Living…
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We’re happy to be published in NJBA's Dimensions Newsletter (Winter 2017)! Click here and check out Page 9 for a taste of just some of the enhancements that Microsoft introduced in the past few months.
The human body is amazing—all the various parts working together to live. White blood cells have the responsibility of recognizing and defending the body against foreign invaders. But what if the “invader” is something from within. A recent survey of organizations with 250 or fewer employees revealed that 38% of them had experienced an internal IT security incident in the past year.
Did you know that billions of instant messages (IMs) are sent each day in the United States alone? That means information of all kinds is being sent and received by your devices on a near constant basis. Some of that information is simple enough, a quick “Hey!” or “Did you see that email?”, but some of that information is more detailed… “Hey real quick, I’ve got to access this report, what’s your password?” or maybe, “Hey I’ve forgotten my password, I thought it was S3curityR!$k, am I spelling that right?”
Messages like these are being sent back and forth every day so it’s important to understand the risks of having instant communication at our fingertips.
We all know enough to follow good hygiene and general wellness practices to avoid spreading germs… washing our hands, coughing into our elbow, and keeping our hands away from our eyes and mouth. Most of us working parents remember the first time dropping off our child at day care and cringing when the first thing our child did was put a toy in their mouth.
Did you ever buy a new CD and bring it home to play it on your old record turntable? Did you ever try to retrieve your voicemail from a rotary phone? Did you ever try to turn the channel on your TV by using your adding machine? Of course not!
Well, one of our newest clients did something like that… before they came to us they decided to install the latest version of their key accounting software on their local server.
