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How to Educate Your Staff About Cybersecurity
The best way to handle the potential for a data breach is to plan for such an event. Working with all of your employees to make certain they are mindful of how their activity can heighten or reduce the chance of an outsider threatening your or your customers’ information. Take the opportunity to review your […]
Tablets for Work and Play – At Work
Small- and medium-sized businesses are continuing to adopt mobile technology into the workplace in an amazing number of ways. Companies are taking advantage of both the relatively low cost of the technology as well as its low maintenance and portability in the field. Visual Realities Neuroscience has supported the decades-old learning theory that most people […]
Start Accepting More Than Credit Cards Online
The world of Internet payment methods continues to expand, and not just by using credit cards but online, where companies such as Apple and PayPal use a simple login and password combination to securely make payments for everything from apples to eBay transactions. Stating The Obvious A few months ago, eBay announced it was separating […]
Things Every Business Should Know About Network Security
With the increases in network security breaches in the last few years, it is imperative that businesses become more aware of how these breaches are happening and what steps can be taken to prevent them. While there is no 100% fool-proof way of stopping every kind of security breach, with a little knowledge and foresight, […]
Data Risk Prevention Steps You Must Take
In today’s increasingly mobile business world, there is always a risk of losing important data to malware attacks, accidents or end-user negligence. With advanced technology, however, businesses can minimize their risk of data loss by identifying and monitoring data and putting in place certain safeguards to help protect it from loss. Your data are the […]
The Dangers of Installing Free Software
What harm could there be in free software? Everybody’s cost-conscious these days, right? Why not help your bottom line by using freebies? Wrong. Free software is one of the most dangerous things you will run into while operating your business. This is not to say trial offers, or any shareware products, are to be avoided, […]
Technology Policies All Businesses Should Have
You own a business and your business uses computers and the Internet. Do you regulate how your employees use their work computers? Should you? Can you? The answers to these questions are complicated, but they are vital to your business’s success; even a small business can lose over a thousand dollars a minute when its […]
Should Your Business Migrate to Office 365?
If you want to use your IT staff most effectively, sooner rather than later you should be considering a move to the cloud with Office 365. Smaller businesses in particular can really profit from leveraging the research and development of this Microsoft designed solution to reduce or eliminate the amount of pressure on a small […]
Security Risks When Using Android
Many SMBs and corporations have shied away from allowing or using Android devices in the workplace because of possible security risks. Most of the security risks involved are related to the open development nature of the system, which allows hackers easier access to the OS and makes it easier for them to get their malware […]
How You Can Prevent Data Loss
With the growing amount of data which every company generates today, most of which is being saved on computers, on servers and in the cloud, it’s no wonder you may be concerned about how to ensure that this valuable information is safe and secure. Hard copies are no longer something that companies care to print […]
A Visionary Approach to Your Security
The purpose of an IT partner isn’t just to fix something when it is broken, it is to keep your people working and your data secure. Astral moves beyond traditional managed services by addressing all the key areas of cybersecurity in today’s complex landscape.
