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with helpful advice, tips and tricks and news you need regarding your computer
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Need a back issue of CSM Newsletter? Look below
for a synopsis of the main article for each month's edition.
Safeguarding Your Data in a Digital Age:
Most companies track private information, whether the Social
Security numbers of clients, records of financial transactions, their own
employee and payroll information, client lists, and even trade secrets. Once
upon a time, all this information was in paper files, which could be secured
with a heavy, locked door, a grumpy armed guard, and an alarm system. Most
corporate data is now stored electronically, calling for the same levels of
security on a digital level. The sad thing is, a locked door is no longer good
enough. What’s worse, it’s not so easy to tell where the doors are, or how to
lock them.
Protect
Your Company Against Disaster Part Four: In our
third installment, we got to the point where you are putting pen to paper on
your disaster and recovery plan. The most important rule you have established is
one of an effective standard of operation – the minimum level of computers,
data, phones, etc. that you need to run your business. It is the return to that
level that is the entire point of your disaster plan, and its goal.
Protect
Your Company Against Disaster Part Three: In
our last installment, we took all the data that is important to the effective
operation of your company and consolidated it to a single server. Which probably
made you distinctly uncomfortable. The fact that we equipped that server with
power protection, virus protection and hacker protection should have made things
a little better. The idea that having all your data on one well-fortified server
is better than having it spread all over your network should have made it better
still. Running a daily verified backup of all your data is the last piece of the
puzzle. Your data is now secure.
Protect
Your Company Against Disaster Part Two: In
our last episode, we laid out the scary part – the vulnerability of your IT
infrastructure. Most companies have data that is spread across servers,
workstations, laptops, PDAs, floppy disks, CDs, sticky notes, and bar napkins.
It is exactly this kind of fragmentation that makes the recovery from even a
small disaster difficult, if not impossible.
Protect
Your Company Against Disaster Part One: When
you think of disasters, whatever comes to mind is usually big, devastating, and
covered by insurance. A large calamity is something that your clients and
vendors can understand and cut you some slack, giving you the time you need to
get up and running again. Here are some disasters you probably haven't
considered...
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