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Review Your Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy for 2023

Review Your Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy for 2023

When a disaster strikes your business and your important data is compromised, can your business recover? Can it recover quick enough for it to not be irreparably damaged? Could you even conduct business without the lost data? How much downtime can your business even take?  (more…)

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Tip of the Week: Add Dropdown Menus to Your Excel Spreadsheets

Tip of the Week: Add Dropdown Menus to Your Excel Spreadsheets

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • December 12, 2022
  • How To

If you know how to use functions and various other features that Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets have to offer, then you can take your skills one step further than most. One such feature is the use of dropdown menus within cells. Let’s discuss how you can use them to your benefit in both Excel and Sheets. (more…)

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Here’s Why You Are Paying So Much for Data Privacy

Here’s Why You Are Paying So Much for Data Privacy

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • November 28, 2022
  • Security

We know that security is far from a small investment, but this only serves to highlight how important it can be to your business’ continued success. You might wonder why security is such an important investment if you don’t intend to suffer a data breach, and that’s precisely the point. The cost of not investing in security far outweighs the...

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What Counts as Personally Identifiable Information?

What Counts as Personally Identifiable Information?

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • November 7, 2022
  • Security

We frequently discuss the importance of keeping PII—personally identifiable information—secure, but what does this include? What data qualifies as PII? Here, we’re going to lock down on a definition (and you may be surprised by what this definition covers). (more…)

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Don’t Give Up on Password Managers, Even Though LastPass was Breached

Don’t Give Up on Password Managers, Even Though LastPass was Breached

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • October 14, 2022
  • Security

In August, LastPass suffered a data breach that allowed hackers to access the LastPass source code. Let’s take a look at this situation and see what you need to do to maintain proper password security moving forward. (more…)

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Here’s What Happens When You Delete Data

Here’s What Happens When You Delete Data

We bet you’ve gone through your old files at some point to clean things up a bit by deleting files from your computer. What if we told you that deleting those files doesn’t actually delete them—at least not entirely? Let’s go over how you can securely delete your files for good while you go about replacing hardware or upgrading your...

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Beyond Bitcoin: The Function of Blockchain Technology

Beyond Bitcoin: The Function of Blockchain Technology

Since its origins back in 1991, the blockchain has had one core purpose: to securely store data. The methods behind it are exclusive to it as well. Let’s explore the concept of the blockchain a little further to gain a better appreciation of what it has enabled. (more…)

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Streaming is a Major Part of Modern Life—Here’s How It Works

Streaming is a Major Part of Modern Life—Here’s How It Works

There’s no getting away from streaming nowadays—if you’re not binging something on Netflix/Hulu/HBOmax (etc, etc), you’re listening to your favorite song on your music platform of choice. This is largely due to the rising popularity of the “as-a-service” strategy that cloud services enable nowadays. Let’s take a closer look at streaming, and why it is now so ubiquitous. (more…)

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Important Variables of a Successful Backup Platform

Important Variables of a Successful Backup Platform

We are consistently adamant that businesses have a comprehensive data backup strategy to help secure its operational continuity. The threat environment in which we find ourselves at the present time only reinforces the importance of such a backup strategy. This month we thought we’d take a few minutes to review what makes a business’ backup platform comprehensive. (more…)

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Your Network Has Been Breached. Now What?

Your Network Has Been Breached. Now What?

We like to focus our efforts on preventing data breaches and cybersecurity attacks, but it’s important to know what you should do if you do fall victim to such an attack. Let’s go over how you should respond to a data breach and what you must consider to come out on the successful side of it. (more…)

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