General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Does it affect your business?

How does GDPR affect your business? GDPR is the General Data Protection Regulation being implemented in the EU. In short, the GDPR aims to protect the “personal data” of EU citizens.  This includes how the data is collected, stored, processed and destroyed. “Personal data” means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. Here…

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Fake Emails: What You Need to Know

Teach your employees how to identify fake emails. Fake emails, generally called “phishing” and “spoofing” emails, are a constant threat. If you learn how to spot them, you can better protect your computers and data from malware, ransomware, and other attacks.     Here is what you need to know: Check the “from” address Most…

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The Best Way to Protect Your Company from Ransomware

I am asked on a daily basis, “How do we protect our company from ransomware?” A lot of you know of, or have friends that have been infected with Ransomware and were not prepared. They have paid ransom and have, in cases, lost all of their data. Ransomware is such a scary topic to many,…

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Stopping Microsoft Windows 10 upgrade

Microsoft really, really wants you to upgrade to Windows 10! Recently we have been contacted by some of our non-managed clients complaining that their computers updated and now is running Windows 10. This is a problem as many of them run legacy software that will not be compatible with the new version of Windows. So…

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Ask the IT Expert! – (February 2016 edition)

Quickbooks Online vs. Quickbooks 2016 Recently we were working with a client that does a lot of traveling. She is currently using an older version of Quickbooks on her computer at her office and her laptop and transferring the data file using a flash drive. While this works there are better solutions; – Quickbooks Online…

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Ask the IT Expert! – (January 2016 edition)

We want to scan in all of our medical documents, what is the best way to do this? – submitted by Robin First we must know if you want to scan the documents in yourself or if you would like to have a service do it for you. There are many reputable, HIPAA compliant services…

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