All in all it was a good year for SMB IT Security. It seems the problems keep coming and get more complicated, but a major theme seems to be materializing…greed. There was a time when most viruses and security issues were Pride related. Hackers from around the globe seeing what they can get away with […]

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Having an effective, up-to-date and well-documented backup and recovery strategy is a key component to minimizing the impact of data loss or compromise - whether it occurs from a disaster or not. Backup planning involves examining the needs and operations of your organization. Once you’ve determined your backup needs and how your backups will be stored, maintained and accessed, you need to think about recovery. What steps will you need to take in order to get your organization up and running quickly?

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If you had 30 seconds to gather your most valued possessions, what would you grab? In the world of security, IT security professionals need to have a plan in place to make decisions in a swift and intelligent manner when facing a crisis.
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This is a great blog post by Charles Ross […]

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USB Drives can contain important information, such as personal details or business secrets. GadgetTrak have developed a software system that can be installed onto supported USB devices, which they claim provides a means of tracking those devices, in the event they are stolen or lost.
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USB Drives Pose Large Risk to Businesses
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ARS Technica looks at Drobo, the “storage robot” designed to give you flexible and secure external storage via USB 2.0.
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This is a great review and a great product for the small business. It is virtually a plug-n-play storage devise that with back-up software would be perfect for a back-up system. The […]

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Large enterprises live and die by their back-up while small businesses live or die by what they can recover after they realize they should have been backed up!
I, myself, have had my non-back-up woes…and boy did I feel like a fool when a desktop hard drive broke. Yes the disc that you hear spinning and […]

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Regular backups are extremely important in order to prevent loss of important data. Fortunately there are various software and hardware solutions that simplify the process by avoiding the tedious aspect of manually saving and storing backups for all your valuable information. Doing so manually can become a very intense and time-consuming process, considering the numerous […]

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Why bother with the extra expense of back-up solutions? With so many costs involved in operating a business it sometimes seems tempting to cut corners. However don’t be fooled into thinking that a good back-up solution is unnecessary. Unfortunately in this modern computer age, nothing is 100% secure.
With computers, particularly when you are connected […]

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