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...
The keys to having a good audit experience are many. One of the biggest ones is to simply relax! Unless the audit state mandated following your failure to comply with some regulation, then the review can be enjoyable. Often, when I arrive at a company to perform their...
Early this week a major bug was discovered in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – IE – that would allow code imbedded in web sites to potentially exploit the computers who visit those sites. This has many people wondering if they should use a different...
The best answer, of course, is both. However, if you are only going to have one audit, most people think it should be AFTER your own IT professionals have implemented the very best solutions they know. This can be a costly mistake. It is better to have your audit, or...
