The Internet has changed the way companies do business, allowing a growing number of small and medium-sized firms to pay bills, conduct financial transactions with partners and sell goods and services to customers online. But the Internet has also made it more possible for sensitive company information and private customer information to be tracked and [...]
Data and the flow of information inside the corporate structure are crucial to any business today. Yet computing itself has become a commodity. So how does a fast-growing enterprise balance its critical data needs against the expense and demands of server computing?
That’s where offsite data centers, or co-location facilities, come in. Small and medium-sized businesses [...]
Hurricanes. Floods. Tornados. Fires. Earthquakes. Explosions. Extended power outages. Disgruntled employees. Hackers. And, most recently, terrorist attacks.
Those are just 10 examples of circumstances that could disable your company by damaging your computer systems and destroying your valuable data. They’re also 10 good arguments for having a comprehensive, constantly updated disaster-recovery plan.
Need a few more reasons? [...]
With so much sensitive information streaming through the Internet, it’s no wonder that high-tech crime-fighting units are springing up all over the country to combat digital fraud, theft, and sabotage.
Police sergeant Don Brister of the High Technology Crimes Detail in San Jose, Calif., investigates corporate espionage, among other offenses. Brister warns that with such crimes [...]
A few years ago, macro viruses were one of the most common categories of computer predators. Instead of targeting programs, they infected documents and templates, most notably programs such as Microsoft’s Word or Excel. The most notorious macro virus was the Melissa, a combination virus and worm, unleashed in 1999 by a New Jersey man [...]
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A good data backup system can preserve not just your company but your sanity
As the Y2K panic proved, the most common culprit for lost computer data is not system failure. It’s plain old user error. And the only way to combat that is with an electronic safeguard — a [...]
Not scared of losing your data to a corporate thief? You should be
Bob McNeal sits down in a cubicle in his Alexandria, Va., office with his morning coffee. He turns on his computer and flips open his notebook to check out the specifics of today’s assignment. He clicks a couple of buttons on the screen [...]
Safeguarding your Web site — especially sensitive site areas such as shopping cart software — against hackers need not be an expensive and time-consuming affair.
With a few basic precautions, you can make your Web site extremely difficult and unrewarding to hack.
Your Web site is most susceptible to hacking through your shopping cart, so choose wisely. [...]
We’re all trying to become more connected as part of the digital lifestyle. During the past few years, handheld devices, such as those based on the Palm OS and Microsoft Windows CE Pocket PC design, have become mainstream gadgets — taking on a front-and-center role in the digital lifestyle. Many executives and professionals, for example, [...]
If you have your Web site or a network server in-house, or you can’t afford a moment of downtime due to hardware failure, you may need to build a custom solution that involves redundant hard drives or a backup server. You may want to consider RAID, redundant servers, and/or removable hard drives. RAID (redundant array [...]