Data Backup Defined What is data backup and why do I need it for my small business? If you’re asking this question, this post is for you. Data backup is a term from the language of information technology, or IT, and refers to the process of making copies of data […]
Traci Mckown
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Small Business Options If you are a small business owner or are starting a small business, you may be wondering what is email hosting? You know you don’t need it for personal email communication, especially with all the free email service providers out there. However, you have a feeling it may be […]
What Is Cryptography? If you are either a small business owner or are starting a business in the world today, something you may have wondered about is how does email encryption work? To understand the concept better, let’s take the word encryption first. The word encryption has its roots in the ancient Greek word cryptography, […]
Cyber Crime – Cyber Threats Are Real When we think about today’s cyber threats, including viruses, spyware, phishing scams, adware, ransomware and many others, it can be overwhelming and quite frankly, terrifying. One common form of cyber terrorism we hear about often is ransomware, but what exactly is it? Especially […]
Responsibility of Small Business Owners Are you trying to run your small to medium sized business, but still learning about things like hosted email options and data storage backup? Have you sometimes wondered what does archiving an email do? If technological issues have you spending too much time online trying to […]
Small Business Technology Solutions If you are a small to medium sized business owner or if you’re thinking of starting one, you will sooner or later come across the term virtualization. What is virtualization? It is where you take an existing computer (or you can opt for one which has been optimized for […]
What is the dark web? You may have heard about it on news reports or in a movie plot, but what is the dark web? The dark web is a hidden network of websites – like an online shopping mall for illicit information. It requires special tools to access it […]
On the heels of the cyber-attack that prompted the FBI to request that everyone across the country reboot their routers to eliminate a virus / malware threat out of Russia, the US Government has banned any of their offices from using Kaspersky Labs anti-virus software. Kaspersky Labs is based in […]
The Section 179 deduction is a powerful tax-reducing tool that business owners can use and the new tax reform law passed this year made this deduction rule permanent. It used to be that tangible asset purchases like computers and machinery had to be written off over a number of years […]