Business identity theft is serious business! Steve Cox, from the Better Business Bureau, stresses that “Business identity theft is a very real concern in today’s marketplace. From a criminal’s perspective, it is significantly more cost-effective to steal business identities than consumer identities.
The news is that Windows 10 is free! But you need to act soon, before the deadline.
Windows 7 or 8 users are eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 until July 29, 2016.
After that, an upgrade could cost about $100.00 per PC just for the software.
When your computer or smartphone doesn’t respond as expected, it’s frustrating. A recent study of workplace and academic computer users showed high levels of frustration and time loss with just daily computer activities. So, when an interaction with a computer or an application turns sour, it’s easy to understand the desire to reach for that baseball bat!
However, there are better ways to approach your relationship with computers.
Change is good! We’ve all heard this, but there might be a hint of skepticism out there. After all, we’re all human, and our human nature tends to prefer what’s familiar to us. I mean, what’s the point of changing if “IT’s” working for us?
To quote an early American Politician, Adlai E. Stevenson, “Change is inevitable.
With just about 3 months away, Windows Server 2003 end of life is rapidly approaching. We know you’ve heard it from us before, but the average migration can take upwards of 100 days. What does this mean for a business still running Windows Server 2003? To put it simply, it’s time to get serious about removing this 12-year-old operating system from your IT infrastructure.
Are you still running important business applications and websites using Windows Server 2003? While we’ve spent the past year getting our desktops and laptops off of Windows XP before its end of life, it’s now time to get Windows Server 2003 Out!
Regular “mainstream” support for Windows Server 2003 ended 4 years ago, and Microsoft’s extended support for Windows Server 2003 will end on July 14, 2015. That’s only 5 months away! YIKES!
Once the end of life period hits, Microsoft will not release patches and updates for Windows Server 2003, leaving your company wide open to attack.
JFF… (Just For Fun)
In this issue:
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.
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.
