When choosing a hosting provider, uptime and availability is perhaps the most critical aspect to look at. The first question you should ask is ‘Does my potential hosting provider have a trust website – a site that provides complete statistics on their availability?’ You would be amazed at how quickly you can eliminate hosting providers…
DetailsMost small and mid-sized businesses are using email as a primary communication channel with customers, colleagues and suppliers. But many of these companies stop there, missing out on productivity-boosting features like shared calendars, contact information and files. By upgrading to the world’s most popular business messaging software, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, you can significantly raise…
DetailsWhen looking for a new domain name for your business, it is always important to first determine what is available in the rapidly dwindling domain pool. Unfortunately, some registrars play loose and fast with the rules, and will actually register any available domains that you lookup using their WHOIS tools. For that reason, Nerds On…
DetailsIn Part 4 of this series, we asked the question: “Where does the data live?” Sensitive data that is at rest must be protected by access controls and by encryption, according to its classification and security policies. Data does not stay in one place, though – it does not even stay in the many places…
DetailsOnce data has been classified and we know what types of sensitive data a system stores or processes, we have to locate the data we want to protect. Data exists in one of two states – it is either at rest or in transit. We have to ask two questions: 1) Where does the data…
DetailsProtecting sensitive data requires an expenditure of money, time, and effort. We want to protect all of our client’s sensitive data, but we don’t want to waste resources on data that is not sensitive . In addition, some kinds of data require more protection than others. We need a way to identify and classify sensitive…
DetailsWhat is “Sensitive Information”? This second part part of a multi-part series on creating an information management plan for business clients. Basically, any information that your client would not want posted on the bulletin board is potentially sensitive information. Many clients will say that they to not have that much sensitive data on their systems.…
DetailsA second worm to hit the iPhone has been unearthed by security company F-Secure. It is specifically targeting people in the Netherlands who are using their iPhones for internet banking with Dutch online bank ING. It redirects the bank’s customers to a lookalike site with a log-in screen. The worm attacks “jail-broken” phones – a…
DetailsMy apologies for the lapse in Security Corner Posts. The next one will continue the series on building an Information Management Plan for clients. There has been a lot of talk the past couple of weeks about the recently-discovered session renegotiation vulnerability in SSL. If you are interested in the details, here is a link…
DetailsI come from several hundred years of Mennonite tradition as a heritage. In the years of migratory history, our basic tenets were: Exemption from military service Freedom to have our own schools While I’m grateful and proud of our history of peace, I am even more grateful to the veterans and their families that have…
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