“Mike, you said to stay current with updates, so should I be using Vista?” In IT, we often use terminology that is confusing outside the IT world – and that may be the understatement of the year. This may help you clarify: Updates refer to your...
Be sure to involve your IT department when terminating an employee. You trust your employees to access the organization’s data, and along with that access comes the ability for them to harm your organization. Other companies have experienced problems such as:...
Once again, I have met a new client that suffered a data breach because they lost a laptop. The news is filled with examples of this information. First of all, why are customer names, Social Security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers allowed to be stored on...
An executive asks: I need to erase my old hard drive before I give my old PC to a friend. What is the best way to do this? Of course, the best way is to have a qualified IT security professional do this for you. Still, if you want to do it yourself, here is an answer:...
An executive asked me today for quick advice on setting up his new personal laptop. Below are 7 tips: 1) If you didn’t buy XP with the laptop, you may want to go buy a copy and install XP Pro instead of Vista but you may have some drive issues to deal with (or...
