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Malware and phishing attacks aren’t new. They aren’t rare either. We have clever and effective antimalware programs on almost every machine in corporate environments. So how can it possibly be true that so many IT departments, even in large profitable organizations, are getting caught flat-footed by this menace? The problem — users. The trouble is…

“You did what? What kind of idiot would do that?!” Keith’s fervent desire was to yell obscenities at the company executive on the other end of the phone line. No one would blame him, right? The user was 3,000 miles away from the office, using Wi-Fi to connect to the company’s VPN and had just…

Let’s say you moved a terabyte of data to a brand-new server and afterwards notice that you have about half-a-million broken file links. What do you do? LinkFixer Advanced offers patented technology that could have protected your links before they were broken, so that they can be automatically fixed after they are moved or renamed.…

In a survey of 200 companies, more than $26.5 billion in revenue is lost each year from system downtime. The most concerning part of this trend is the fact that most of these system errors were entirely preventable. System downtime plans and methods to avoid downtime are still rare to find in many businesses across the…

“My data is 100% safe and secure in the cloud”, said no one ever, except possibly the slick brochure from the cloud service provider. McAfee Labs report entitled “2017 Threats Predictions” focuses largely on cloud threats. The report notes: “Increasing amounts of sensitive data and business-critical processes are shifting to public and hybrid clouds. Attackers…

According to mobile document vendor, harmon.ie, the winner of their contest on “Rogue IT” horror stories was an unnamed Macbook owner who, frustrated by the absence of wi-fi in his company, decided to “solve” the problem by bringing in his own wireless router. It was one of those routers that didn’t require any configuration of…

What is data migration, really? Let’s start with a couple basics. (I’ll be brief and get to the good stuff fast.) Data migration is the process of transferring information from one system to a new system. This can include transferring data between different file formats and different storage types. The term “data migration” is actually…

How Vulnerable Are You and What Can You Do About It? Think the Russian-DNC-hacking incident has little to do with you? Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump aside, if this incident, in which thousands of e-mails were copied and then leaked to WikiNews, should remind us of anything, it’s how vulnerable we all are…

According to a research project done by consulting firm Master Data Management, 80% of all data migrations fail in some capacity. As people who have done them know, data migrations tend to prove “Murphy’s Law” — that is “anything that can go wrong, will”. Top 3 Dangerous Phases Where Migrations Fail 1. The Planning Phase. The key…