Data Redundancy: Why You Need An External Storage Device
Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of Data Redundancy though extra backups – particularly if you work at home. By now, work solutions that had seemed temporary, are looking more like a new way of life. Indeed, for many, whether full-time or part-time, they actually are. So, when do you start thinking about…
Is Working Remotely Risking Your Personal Data?
Editor’s note: The forced work-from-home cause by COVID-19 merely sped up a long term trend towards taking business out of the office. While not new for many, the challenges of working remotely caught a lot of people and companies flat-footed. most seriously, they weren’t prepared for the data security aspect of doing business work through…
If You’re Working From Home, You Need More Data Backups
This will be very short as it’s a single message. I believe that the common wisdom on data backups is wrong. But it’s very easy to fix. The Cloud Is Great But Isn’t The Be All and End All Everyone is trying to sell you Cloud backups. I’m not knocking them. I believe the first…
Should We Trust Social Media Giants with Password Management?
In this article, we will consider the good and the bad of using social media for your password management Then we give a verdict about what we ultimately believe are the more important concerns. Password Management Concerns Passwords suck. I mean, the more secure a password is, the harder it is to remember. That’s because…
Your Website Has Been Hacked. What Do You Do Now?
This article from Wade Harman is a follow-up, of sorts, to the last article of his that we ran. Once again, he discusses cyber crime. This time, the focus is on the steps to take after you’ve been hacked. Sobering but necessary reading, and another in our “Great Articles You may have missed” series. Take…
