It’s the kind of situation that none of us like to think about–a fire burns the headquarters or a flood damages inventory and shuts down the entire area, but it’s the kind of situation every small business needs to be prepared for. We’ve all seen news stories after disasters showing people who don’t know…

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some tactically important steps that your firm can take to protect itself. After reading this paper and/or listening to the accompanying presentation you should have some actionable takeaways, but also realize that for these steps to be effective they should be taken with the assistance of an IT professional.

So I found myself in the middle of an issue with a company who provides a service for me. This company has all of my important information including date of birth and social security number, but the way it interacts with its customers makes it very easy for somebody to hijack the accounts of its customers…

So there’s always a debate on which is the best anti-virus program. One day there’s a study showing one is the best and the next day that program seems to be at the bottom of the list. This one is faster, that one catches…

I had a couple of items I needed to download via torrents last week. I installed uTorrent on my newly set up Windows 7 machine and got started. Now I am used to the idea that when torrents are going on in the background…

Long story short. While copying my data from my main machine to a new hard drive on which I had just done a fresh install of Windows 7 the drive on my main machine died. Complete hardware failure including one of the noises you can find at DriveSavers.