3 Steps to A Universal Password

As we become more reliant on cloud, online storage, and services we need to step up our security practices. But in fact, internal business Best Practices have recommended the use of secure passwords for the past decade. Online users have become accustomed to using simple and generic passwords for online services for various reasons. Using secure passwords is essential to maintaining security and privacy in the work place as well as in our personal lives.

Recent studies show that our passwords too easy to guess and susceptible to brute force attacks. The tendency is to leave them around for prying eyes to find, and we often use identical passwords and user names across multiple sites and services. To help you safeguard against security threats we have put together a list of best practices and provided a 3-step guide to creating a great universal password.

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10 Steps to a Social Media Policy

Your current, future, and former employees, customers, and partners are all using social media these days. Whether it’s for business or personal use your stakeholders are involved and they likely have something to say about your business.

Establishing ground rules and best practices is important to protect the privacy of your employees, the security of your information, and the integrity of your business. Instituting and enforcing a social media policy is something we believe every IT department should be a part of, follow these ten steps to create your social media policy.

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IT Resolutions For 2012

Each year innovations in technology provide businesses the tools to achieve new levels of efficiency and production. This year is another great example. Adapt our five IT New Year Resolutions to make 2012 a truly great year.

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Spam Down: But Keep Your Guard Up

Spam has decreased dramatically since this time last year and while security experts are citing various reasons, one thing they all seem to agree on is not to let your guard down.

Sure several notorious botnets are out of the picture and authorities are cracking down on hackers as well, but as security evolves so do the threats. At the same time we are experiencing a decline in botnet spam we are also seeing an increase in other malicious internet security attacks. This may be explained by simple economics; it could be that scammers are busy deploying a more profitable scamming campaign as you read this.

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