In one of our previous posts, we tackled the risks of letting shadow IT proliferate in your organization. One major component of shadow IT is the use of unvetted personal devices for work purposes. We established that while employees using their own machines saves you money and makes them more productive, it does open your firm up to cybersecurity risks, such as infecting your network with malware.
It is widely believed that Apple computers and devices are highly secure and can't be touched by malware and viruses. While there are fewer security threats to Macs, iPhones, and other Apple gadgets compared to Windows and Android machines, Apple devices are also vulnerable.
Global commerce has opened a whole new world for owners of small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs). It has never been easier to find customers for your products or services. But you still need the right tools to succeed. One such important tool is the computer.
As a business owner, you know how important it is to attend to your holiday customers. To ensure customer satisfaction, optimize the use of your VoIP system. Here's how to do just that.
Check your VoIP equipment
Sometimes, problems with VoIP don't have anything to do with your service provider or even the underlying servers that host the solution.
Microsoft Office 2019 is a popular and top-selling productivity suite. A one-time purchase gives you access to an array of applications that you can use to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for school or work. While the program is easy to use, there are times when people need help.
With mobile phones being capable of handling emails, text documents, spreadsheets, and video conference calls, it’s not surprising that many employees use their own personal devices to accomplish their work-related tasks. It’s not an uncommon sight to see people typing away on their laptops while riding a bus or a plane, and with new tablets being powerful enough to execute notoriously heavy programs such as Adobe Photoshop, we’ll soon have staff who are all literally bringing their work with them wherever they go.
Facebook has grown rapidly in the past decade and now boasts over two billion monthly active users. These users are constantly liking, sharing, commenting, and posting on the platform. Many businesses see this as an opportunity to grow their customer base so they integrate Facebook advertising into their marketing strategies.
Enterprise cybersecurity is a holistic system that involves employing security practices at every level of use. This includes picking out the most secure application for web browsing. Consider the security features of these popular web browsers when picking yours.
Businesses have more access to customer data than ever before, and that trend will likely continue in the future. The insights you get from all that data are valuable. However, a lot of data is unnecessary or possibly even problematic. To ensure your insights are relevant and useful, you must have a well-defined data collection system in place.
Whenever Microsoft rolled out updates to its Windows operating system (OS), implementing them across your entire organization was quite a chore for IT administrators. They had to consider the capacity of their machines, see if they could implement all the updates at once or do it in a staggered or piecemeal fashion, and train people to adopt new methods, if any.
