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CEO expresses frustration regarding IT professionals

by Mike Foster | Apr 7, 2010 | Best Practices

Recently, a CEO sent me a message saying about executives, “We don’t know what we don’t know, and we depend on the IT department for answers. They could tell me aliens fried their Wheaties on the backup drive for breakfast and how am I to challenge that?”...

How is your disaster recovery plan?

by Mike Foster | Mar 31, 2010 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity, Save time, Technology

A lot of organizations are revamping their IT systems now that the economy is recovering. Many are using services like server virtualization and thin client technology—both of which lend themselves to you having a great opportunity to make a more robust Disaster...

What to do if someone steals your identity

by Mike Foster | Mar 24, 2010 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity

A client wrote recently explaining their family’s personal information was on a laptop in their car when the car was stolen. Of course, the laptop was not using full disk encryption, or they would never have called me. What do you do? First of all, read this short...

Executives, does your e-mail address end in AOL?

by Mike Foster | Mar 17, 2010 | Best Practices, Save time, Technology

Three different highly respected business professionals communicated with me today and each of them made comments along the lines of, “Oh—that CEO is so far behind in technology that their e-mail address ends in AOL!” I’m always ok with it when a CEO, President, or...
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