When it comes to choosing a data destruction and information security service provider, the essential factor to a successful partnership is compatibility. It’s critical to evaluate your service provider in a manner that will ultimately provide you with a clear understanding of how well you will work together. Keep it simple. It may be helpful [...]
You know you are famous when your company name becomes a verb; most of the time when we look something up we are told to “Google it.” After being in business for almost 12 years, our customers are telling us that their old computer equipment and data gets “reclamered”. WOW – that is cool. To [...]
It was my pleasure this week to present Harrisburg Area School District with 12 refurbished computers for their students. In this flailing economy, school districts are finding it difficult to purchase the much-needed technology that students need to develop the skills required for later success in life. I was more than happy to partner with [...]
Ransomware, or malware that holds your computer hostage until you pay a “ransom” (hence the name – clever, huh?), has been around for a while. Today we became aware of a particularly crafty new strain is now posing as law enforcement. The software informs the user that he or she has all sorts of illicit material [...]
Dark Reading has a list of the five biggest data breaches to occur in the second half of 2011. These lists are useful, if for nothing else, to give us a gentle reminder that the risks to our data are very real, and that we need to continue vigilantly protecting our critical assets.
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A new report out has some interesting findings related to the safety of health care data in America. The findings show that, for a variety of reasons, data breaches in the health care industry are on the rise. The new Ponemon Institute “2011 Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security,” commissioned by IDExperts, found [...]
It’s Cyber Monday, and you know what that means – scams, scams, and more scams. As if we didn’t have enough to worry about making sure that we’ve gotten the best deal on all of the random junk that we plan on buying for our loved ones (and even some not-so-loved ones that we feel [...]
Jason E. High Cyber Threat Specialist Infosec Island has an excellent article this morning by Eric Cissorsky – Social Media and Security in the Enterprise. This is an excellent, in-depth look at the various risks posed by allowing social media access in the workplace. While reading through the article may make executives more inclined to [...]
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By admin | November 2, 2011
By: Joe Harford, MS, CIPP On a recent trip to Maryland I had the opportunity to meet with one of our K-12 customers. Wallace Wills is the Information Services Technology Manager for Cecil County Public Schools in Maryland. As a follow up to our meeting I asked him some questions about his perspective on IT [...]
By admin | October 19, 2011
Bud Younke CDRP, MCSE,A+, MCP October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an engaging idea to make people aware of the potential pitfalls as we navigate through the jungle of the information age. With the month almost past, it is important in today’s world of Internet access via not only our computers, but our smart-phones, tablets [...]
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