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How Smart Personal Assistants Can Make You Vulnerable

Did you get a smart personal assistant for a gift this holiday season? According to a Forrester survey, Amazon Prime subscriptions are a key driver of Amazon Echo’s success. While 28 percent of Prime members currently use a smart speaker, ...

How Dating Sites Can Leave Your Business Vulnerable

What are your employees doing at work? What sites are they searching during their lunch hour? What potential problems do they bring into your office simply by “checking in?” It’s no longer possible to have work-related activities take place only ...

7 Essentials To Improve IT Change Control

Change. It’s something we all deal with every day, whether we want to or not. In an IT environment, change can either be planned or unplanned. Unplanned can include things like crashed servers, failed hard drives, or data corruption. Planned ...

That Fingerprint Scanner Might Not Be As Secure As You Think

Your fingerprint. It’s unique to you, or at least that’s what they tell us. According to Apple, every fingerprint is so rare, that even a small section of two separate fingerprints has a 1 in 50,000 chance of registering as ...

The Real Risk Of Mobile Technology

Smartphones have become one of the most flexible and resourceful items we own. No matter where we go or what we do, those handy gadgets are always there beside us, waiting for attention. As a business, every employee probably has ...

Risk … or Security? What Do You Really Mean?

Most companies approach security in the same manner. They create systems and strategies to stop, identify, or track an intruder so that they can halt or reduce the damage. Sounds like a good plan, right? Only in many ways, it’s ...

Insecure Apps Can Leave Your Smartphone At Risk

When was the last time you went shopping in your app store? There are so many things to consider. A time management tool to help you track your days. A photo tool to help you take better pictures. A game ...

Having Multiple Vendors In Your Cloud Strategy

For most business environments, it’s always been a shuffle of how to combine hardware and software to best accomplish your goals. You purchase equipment from one source, storage from another, services from third-party programs, and hope they all connect to ...

Even Information Officers Are In The Customer Service Business

Step back in time and businesses operated efficiently with separate divisions. Marketing, customer service, technology - they all played their part. But times have changed, and business integration has become more essential. Each individual department can no longer act on ...

New Technology Means New Threats

We’re a nation that loves new technology. Phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops are regularly upgraded, bringing us new ways of doing things. While we downloaded approximately 115 billion apps in 2016, that number is expected to reach 197 billion in ...

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