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Are vulnerability scans of your network helpful?

by Mike Foster | Apr 21, 2010 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity, Technology

As part of the Foster Institute IT Security Assessments, we always offer to perform vulnerability assessments and they are indeed very helpful.  Executives can help IT professionals overcome the negative effect to the results of a vulnerability scan… The primary...

Thieves preying on your social media

by Mike Foster | Apr 14, 2010 | Best Practices, Cybersecurity

ABC’s Good Morning America recently posted a video about a woman whose home was robbed after she announced on Facebook that she was leaving her home to go to a concert. You can watch the short video on this story. Keep in mind that more and more social media...

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...
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