A new year and a new decade are right around the corner. And while anticipation is high for 2020, now’s the perfect time to take a look back at 2019.
At CMIT Solutions, our QuickTips column covered it all across a busy 12 months: data breaches and cybersecurity enhancements, new tech twists and online privacy revelations alike.
The height of summer can be the most distracting time of the year. Leaving an hour (or two) early on Friday quickly becomes a regular occurence. Someone is always out of the office on vacation. Fiscal year turnovers can shift our focus up to the 30,000-foot view, forcing us to overlook day-to-day operations.
With summer in full swing and many fiscal years ending, it can be easy to overlook the most important part of your day-to-day work: technology. Chalk it up to the overwhelming wave of data breaches and software vulnerabilities, or the ongoing threat of ransomware, or the targeting of high-level email addresses and decision-making processes through social engineering.
The prospect of giving a PowerPoint presentation can be downright petrifying. All that energy spent writing concise bullet points, making sure fonts, photos, and formats match up, building transitions between slides, getting the finished package to play properly… That’s all before you have to stand up in front of a crowd and command the room for 15 or 30 minutes with winning conversation and an easygoing attitude.
For many of us, September 5th is a day to return to work energized after the Labor Day weekend. The kids are back in school, fall is right around the corner, and we feel confident about our ability to tackle the new week’s obstacles — only to be confronted by an inbox bursting at its seams with unread emails.
Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast last Friday night as a Category 4 storm with winds in excess of 130 mph. By Sunday, Harvey’s path of destruction spread inland, claiming at least five lives and flooding the Houston metropolitan area with record-breaking rainfall — in some areas, more than 30 inches and counting.
Many of us know the feeling: a computer or laptop crashes, bringing productivity to a standstill. If you’re lucky, you have a tech-savvy friend or hard-working employee who will go the extra mile to try to keep systems in working order. Or maybe you know an IT professional who is available to diagnose problems and resolve major issues.
Friday, March 31st is World Backup Day, and given the many recent instances of data loss plaguing businesses big and small, no question is more relevant than, “What would you do if you lost it all?”
Data backups provide peace of mind by saving a second copy of important files: everything from client records to financial information to documents, emails, photos, and more.
The New Year is in full swing and everyone is motivated to work hard after persevering through the post-holiday lull. But as you race from task to task trying to knock out that to-do list before 5:00 PM, perhaps you’ve noticed that your computer can’t seem to keep up.
In the latest cybercrime twist, the IRS recently reported that hackers are now targeting tax preparers by employing email phishing scams and hacking attempts. Why? For the same reason behind every breach: cybercriminals want to steal Social Security numbers, personal information, and financial data.
