Many IT departments tell their executives that having multiple firewalls, anti-virus protection, VPN’s, etc. are all you need for security. How does a firewall help you if the attack comes from inside your perimeter? When analyzing your IT security, having several...
When you try more than one monitor, it is hard to go back to a single monitor. Many users move to three or more monitors. What if your laptop, or desktop for that matter, only has one monitor port? Fortunately, if you want to have multiple monitors connected to your...
During a recent IT and physical security audit, we found three wireless access points within a facility that were both: Insecure providing wide open access to whoever wanted to attach and unknown to the IT professionals at the facility. There are many problems with...
As a fairly new dad, I wonder how executives choose to handle all of the IT devices available—do you allow your kids to have them too? Do you ever tell your kids, “When I was young, pocket calculators with 15 keys were the latest gadgets?” Will our...
Executives often ask if an online backup service is a good solution. I use an online backup service, in addition to making daily image backups on alternating drives, and like the online backup service very much as a backup to my backup. The main thing about an online...
