What does cyber liability insurance protect?
Cyberattacks against North Dakota state government skyrockets to 15m per month. It’s hard to avoid the reality of these threats increasing.
Proactiveness is our best protection. But how much Cyber protection insurance will help depends on how much you plan for in advance.
Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will be coming to its end of life on January 14, 2020. (Please don’t shoot the messenger!) That doesn’t mean your Windows 7 will just stop working past this date, but it could just as well. After this date you will no longer receive any security patching or updates for the operating system.
In fiscal year 2013, the Wage and Hour Division recovered nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in back wages for workers whose employers improperly denied them pay they had earned. In addition, the Presidents’s FY 14 budget included $3.4 million for increased enforcement of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
We have been busy doing projects throughout the state already this year, and don’t foresee the demand ending anytime soon. On top of that, we have put together an aggressive training plan for our technicians to keep up with their skills. Each of our technicians has been given goals of specific skill sets that they need to be certified in by year end.
An urgent security warning for organizations running Windows Server 2003.
If your organization is currently running either Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Exchange Server 2003 on any servers at your location, you need to know about a dangerous security threat to your organization that must be addressed very soon.
Why? Because small organizations are not prepared and make it easier for the criminals to access their systems.
One of the biggest issues facing small business owners in the fight against cybercrime is the lack of a cybercrime plan. While 83% lack a formal plan, over 69% lack even an informal one.
Cloud storage is a model of data storage where the digital data storage spans across multiple servers and often in multiple locations. These cloud storage providers are responsible for keeping the data available and accessible, and the physical environment protected and running.
Each season brings new issues and the things we are working on now continue to be the hallmark of our business. Upgrading servers so that our customers do not risk downtime, enhancing networks so our customers have continued connectivity to all offices, and updating desktop PC’s so that our customers stay up-to-date with new software, operating systems and hardware.
It’s an important question that most organizations don’t think about. Most organizations think it would be a temporary inconvenience when to lose their IT person when, in fact, usually the opposite is true.
Ask yourself the following 6 questions:
1. Do you have written documentation about your computer network? Think about what software licenses you own, critical usernames and passwords for your network, what hardware do you own and when warranties expire, what 3rd party vendors you work with and what is their contact information? NEVER allow a single IT person keep this information under their full control.
Here we are in the final month of the year and we are probably the busiest we have ever been with new projects and new endeavors. It seems, like in most years, people have waited until the end of the year to order equipment and complete their projects. It is a great problem to have.
