Keeping hackers out of your network is a serious concern these days but many owners overlook the security of their physical environment. Your servers and data are vulnerable in your office to vendors and disgruntled employees. If your employees have access to data and you are not tracking what your employees are doing then this [...]

Confidential data, it fills our office on a daily basis. Once it comes in, we guard it voraciously, but once we’ve completed our work we need to get the confidential data back to our clients. There are many ways to do this, from physically handing it to them to sending it to them over the [...]

There is more to backing up your information than you might think, and I’ll show you how to properly do it. Some might be asking, “Why should I back up?” The answer to that is simple, disaster recovery. Some might be thinking that a disaster is highly unlikely, well, what about accidental deletion or user [...]

When backing up your files there are a few different procedures to understand. High capacity removable storage media such as backup tapes present a data security risk if they are lost or stolen. Encrypting the data on these media formats can reduce this problem, but presents new complications. First, encryption is a CPU intensive process [...]

Most staff members are trust worthy, but defending sensitive data must be considered. With Internet access on every work station as well as the growing amount of devices like iPods, businesses run an increased risk of data theft by employees and others with access to confidential data. Some hand held devices have memory capacity that [...]

Nothing gives me the heebie jeebies more than the thought of losing our business data. I was in Dallas in the middle of June at a conference when I got a call from one of our staff members, he was standing outside our office and saying “The front door is smashed, we’ve been broken into.” [...]

Let’s be honest, when it comes to security and our data we could all be more fastidious about it. It’s not that we don’t understand the need for it but we just don’t want to deal with it. The sheer technical prowess required to understand encryption is rather daunting and governing officials are urging us [...]

I just got another privacy notice from one more vendor in the mail. When I think of how easy it would be to steal my mail and my confidential data spreading everywhere it makes me nervous, and yet another notice arrives in my mail and this one has my entire credit card number on it. [...]

There are many traditional methods for transferring confidential data like email, online storage, mail, pickup, and an online service. But with the advent of increased bandwidth more businesses are choosing to take their client’s confidential data online. Putting client’s data online comes with many challenges and choosing the wrong solution can put your practice at [...]