Security is an important topic when it comes to technology. There are many different areas of security, so this category is divided into various sub-categories to help navigate through the posts on security.
How many businesses do you think have a website? 75, 80 percent? It’s 2011, everything’s online, so of course most businesses are going to be online too, right? Wrong.
Only 45 percent of small business owners have a website, according to a recent study by Discover. And while that was a significant increase from the 37 percent in 2009, there are still a significant portion of the driving force of our economy that aren’t cashing in on all the potential the Web can offer.
A few months ago I noticed that Mozy was changing their pricing structure so I needed to develop a new data backup solution. Mozy’s new pricing structure made it unaffordable for me to use them for regular data backup solution, so I had to change how I backup my data.
After I had won a license of Handy Backup from Michael Aulia from Craving Tech I decided that it would be a good solution for my data backup dilemma. After thinking about me new data backup solution, I decided to begin to put the solution in place.
Cell phone hacking has become a large problem today, which makes mobile phone security a hot topic. The way hackers do this, is that they either sell or offer programs online that people must download to their cell phones. What people do not realize though, is that while they are downloading the programs, they are also unknowingly installing spyware onto their phones at the same time.
I find that every time I write an article about getting rid of spam people cannot get enough. After all, 488,005,400 Americans use the Internet every day, many for work purposes, and spam is nothing but an annoyance. What prompted me to begin researching this and really getting the subjcet out there to the public was the fact that spam messages KEPT HAPPENING. Flashing messages, non-stop emails telling me I’m a winner, and pop-up ads that take over my screen never seemed to lessen. According to spamcop.net, there are approximately 10.1 spam message sent per second!
Although “x’ing” out these ads or deleting these emails works temporarily, I was ready for a more permanent solution. Fortunately, I found that reporting spam is fairly simple. Depending on whether you are concerned about the spam your company is dealing with or the spam you are personally dealing with will likely determine how you go about reporting it. There are two different approaches to deleting spam.
A good network security policy is not a topic commonly spoke about around water coolers at work. This topic is more commonly handled by extensively-trained experts. Where this fact proves true, this does not mean that you have to be a well-trained professional to desire the knowledge of how a network security policy works. More than ever before, every day computer users are becoming well-versed in the basics of how important network security is with the internet. This article is intended to broaden the perspective of every-day network users in accomplishing an effective network security policy.
I think my search for finding a way to backup my data after Mozy has ended with Handy Backup. Since I discovered that Mozy was changing their pricing policy, and determining that the new prices were going to be too high for me, I have been looking for an alternative way of backing up my data. I knew that I needed software to assist with backing up my data, and I also needed a new plan to work with the software, so with Handy Backup I think I have found a new method.
When developing my process, I didn’t want to stray to far from my current one, with the exception of the online storage. With the amount of data (320+ GB) that I need to backup, and the fact that it is growing substantially each year, it seems only offline backup would work. By the looks of it, Handy Backup is just the software I need.
A few months ago I switched to Incapsula to help increase the performance of my blog and at the same time add an additional level of security. After testing out the service for several weeks I wrote my review about Incapsula, and in that review I mentioned that the dashboard and reports were comprised of flash objects. This caused both the dashboard and reports to load very slowly.
Since that review, Incapsula has contacted me about a new version of their service. The new version totally redesigns the entire dashboard and reporting feature of their service. I was offered to have a look at their new version, which I was very happy about, and have had a good look at their new version, which just went live. After using their new version for some time, I do have a few thoughts regarding the extensive changes that they have made.
I take data backup seriously, especially since a lot of my data are digital photos and videos that I can’t reproduce. Most of the photos and videos that I backup are of my children, so losing them because of a hard drive crash is not an option. It is this reason that I have created a backup process to ensure I have more than one copy of my files, with multiple copies stored offsite.
In past posts I have discussed my backup process. In this post I will focus on the hardware and media that I have used to keep my data safe from any disaster that may happen. I currently use Mozy to backup my data online, but I am exploring other options for the future because Mozy will be too expensive for me next year.