IT Security Threats In today’s day and age, we find ourselves the subject of digital attack. As the time has changed technology from room sized computers doing math to the world in your hand held device, so has time changed the people and the technique they use to exploit these advancements. We used to have
Make a bootable USB flash drive to wipe an old hard drive To use a USB to wipe an old hard drive on a Windows PC: Download the DBAN *.iso image from http://www.dban.org/download. Insert a USB flash drive with 32MB+ available space. Download the Universal USB-Installer, which converts the *.iso image to USB flash http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/Universal-USB-Installer/Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.6.6.exe
How to take a screenshot on your Mac To take a screenshot of your whole screen: Press Command (⌘)-Shift-3. Find the screenshot as a .png file on your desktop. You can take screenshots of your whole screen or just part of it. Screenshots are saved automatically as .png files on your desktop. To take a
Shadow Copy The Shadow Copy feature is often one of the most overlooked tools built into Windows Servers. Utilizing shadow copies allows files to be recovered in real time, without having to turn to a traditional backup solution like tapes, or even online backups. This does not mean that Shadow Copies should take the place
Importance of Keeping your firewall up to date Keeping your firewall up to date is the easiest way to protect your network and data. Aging firewalls present a security risk for your environment. A firewall that is 5 years old is typically 50% less effective at blocking attacks than a unit that is only 3
Turning the tables on technology performance Technology performance is typically touted as a conduit to better business processes. However, sometimes lost amid all the high-tech hoopla is a high-touch catalyst for performance excellence. It’s called action learning. Simply put, action learning is interactive training, that time-tested practice of learning by doing. No matter how robust
Denver Managed Services In the old days, managed services often referred to nothing more than a help desk that would take over control of your workstation while you leaned back and watched. Nowadays, we have the ability to monitor the health and performance of your entire network, and if we spot a potential problem, we
Managed Services Promote Predictability in Tough Times Managed services are a hot item in the IT world. Companies faced with downsizing their IT staffs are finding these competitively-priced, outsourced offerings very tempting. However, as with so many technology terms, "managed services" carries different meanings to different people. Pricing also varies considerably, depending on the scope
IT Management in 3 Phases Take charge of your company's IT management, or your information technology will take charge of you. Think of the computer "HAL" in the movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey." HAL ends up in the driver's seat because no one properly manages his deployment. Many of us already feel controlled by our
Denver IT Managed Services With our IT managed services program, we can remotely monitor and remediate our clients' servers proactively. It gives us eyes on our clients servers every day, even if our engineers only visit weekly or monthly. Monitor servers 24 hours a day to prevent outages or interruptions Remotely remediate server issues without
