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Denial is Not a Solution: Something You Owe Your Customers and Your Employees
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900Why do so many people procrastinate about making a will? Why is it so hard to get young people to buy health insurance? Because it is one of those “probably won’t happen--at least in the foreseeable future, and I've got...
Limited Investment Capital and Planning for Trouble
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900Small businesses often fail to take the time to make business continuity plans. One aspect of a business continuity plan involves developing plans to handle the loss of physical infrastructure and hardware. Unfortunately,...
Data Protection Laws and PII
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900Last week we discussed the overall concept of “Data Protection Laws,” which govern the handling and securing of specific data. While these laws are wide ranging, most of these laws reference Personally Identifiable...
Are you subject to Data Protection laws?
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900This blog introduces a new topic that many may be unaware of: Data Protection laws. These are laws that define fully, or in part, what type of data is covered by government regulations, prescribe general standards for the...
Ransomware Part II
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900In our last blog, we explained what ransomware is, and why it can be an especially troublesome malware. Today, let’s look at what you can do to avoid falling victim. Prevention is the best cure. Follow standard “data...
Ransomware Part I
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900The daily reports of cybercrime are important reminders about the need to protect your business from malicious behavior that could threaten the success of your business. There are so many different things that can attack...
Collective Action Against Cybercrime
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900Recently the President met with leaders in the private sector as well as those in education to discuss the need to address cybersecurity threats to the nation and efforts needed across the board. The increase in incidents...
Your employee quit your organization. Make sure your data didn’t
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900When someone new joins your organization, how do you manage their onboarding? Chances are, you already have processes in place for everything. The employee paperwork is taken care of by the HR, the on-floor assistance and...
You’ve been hijacked!
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900Has it ever happened to you that you opened the web browser on your PC and it looked a bit off? Then you perhaps did a Google search for something or tried to access your email only to have a dozen ads popping up or to be...
System & software updates: Why you shouldn’t be skipping them for later
Contact UsRemote SupportCall Us at 207-608-8900We all know how annoying it can be when you get a pop-up asking if you’d like to update it or worse still, your system starts to update itself. The general tendency is to put it off until the next time you log onto your...
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