When you go home for the night and lock your office door, what happens in your office under the cover of darkness? During the day, you are present to monitor what goes on and control the chaos, but what kind of monitoring and controls are in place for your office at night?
Your IT network is complicated, but that doesn't mean you should question your network's security. For your convenience, we have simplified network security into the five most important precautions that every network needs. Be sure to review this checklist against your own network to see how well you are covered.
If you have been working with Windows operating systems for more than a few years, then you have heard about defrag. To help keep your PC running smoothly, it has always been considered a solid practice to routinely perform a disk defragmentation on your hard drive. Recently, however, you may not have heard much about defragging. Is defragging still necessary?
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) revolution is a technology that is here to stay. More and more company work is being done on personal devices. A recent survey found that one in four devices used in the workplace are either smartphones or tablets. While BYOD does make business more convenient, it is also not without risks.
Fax machines are easy to make fun of because they look out of place in the modern office. Yet there they sit, collecting dust and even churning out the occasional paper fax. While some office workers may cling to their fax machine due to a misplaced emotional attachment, many offices will keep fax machines out of compliance to communication laws.
