Cloud Computing: We Couldn’t Have Done it Without You

The days of projects being managed by small teams that work in the same building are gone forever. People work across counties, countries and continents from inside and outside the company. The thread that connects this workforce is “in the cloud,” allowing users to access project information securely (if you use DigitalQuick) regardless of one’s location. Cloud computing is computing based on the internet. In the past, people would run applications or programs from...

The days of projects being managed by small teams that work in the same building are gone forever. People work across counties, countries and...

With incidents of data breaches all over the news (Target and eBay are just to name a few), data security is becoming an increasingly greater concern for all parties involved: customers, organizations, etc. One concrete example of this is how retail heavyweights, including Gap, Nike, and Walgreens among others, have promised to share data breach information among themselves to try to prevent future data breaches from occurring. That is definitely a welcome step in...

With incidents of data breaches all over the news (Target and eBay are just to name a few), data security is becoming an increasingly...

Many of us have the hardest time remembering all the passwords we have for the different kinds of accounts we have: bank accounts, credit card accounts, email accounts, etc. So, to cope with this problem, many of us create one or more Word documents containing the different passwords we have. This way, all we have to do is open a document to see what we had set our password as and not have to...

Many of us have the hardest time remembering all the passwords we have for the different kinds of accounts we have: bank accounts, credit...

Spying, hacking and industrial espionage seem to be on the rise as companies and governments try to get a competitive edge in business and world affairs. This past week the US government indicted five Chinese military hackers for computer hacking, economic espionage and other offenses directed at six American organizations. The companies affected are Westinghouse, SolarWorld, U.S. Steel, Allegheny Technologies, Alcoa and the USW, a union of manufacturing workers. The indictment alleges that the...

Spying, hacking and industrial espionage seem to be on the rise as companies and governments try to get a competitive edge in business and...

Collaboration is the cornerstone of every business. To successfully conduct business, people need to collaborate with their team members, with other teams, as well as with other organizations. With the globalization of today’s economy, collaboration is becoming even greater on every kind of scale. An organization in the U.S. might find itself having to collaborate with another organization in France or Brazil, for example. With the increasing rate and scale of collaboration within and...

Collaboration is the cornerstone of every business. To successfully conduct business, people need to collaborate with their team members, with other teams, as well...

The NSA’s collection of personal information, including email logs and photos stored online, through its internal government computer system, PRISM, deals a huge blow to internet privacy as we know it. In addition, the possibility that the companies themselves (which include huge technological giants as Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) aided in the government’s information gathering further raises the question of whether your personal files on the internet and cloud are truly secure. To...

The NSA’s collection of personal information, including email logs and photos stored online, through its internal government computer system, PRISM, deals a huge blow...

Bill Blake, President of Fasoo USA, and Trevor Smith, Executive Vice President of Brite Computers, presented on May 14, 2014 at the Wall Street Technology Association’s “Delivering Secure Data” Seminar. The event was held at The Yale Club of New York City. The event focused on the issues of detecting and preventing data breaches as more businesses want to be proactive about securing data rather than dealing with the legal and financial costs after...

Bill Blake, President of Fasoo USA, and Trevor Smith, Executive Vice President of Brite Computers, presented on May 14, 2014 at the Wall Street...

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is becoming an increasingly popular method for employees to get their work done in a fast-driven society as ours. It’s completely understandable – the convenience of using your mobile device almost anywhere and not being stuck in the office after normal work hours in order to get necessary work done sounds awesome, right? And plus, you can be even more productive, since you can access necessary work files whenever...

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is becoming an increasingly popular method for employees to get their work done in a fast-driven society as ours....

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued a guide to help organizations guard against malicious insiders. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center developed this guide with a list of behavioral characteristics that could become a threat to information security. People exhibiting these behaviors may not necessarily become threats to an organization’s sensitive information, but it’s a good idea to understand potential patterns. The guide defines an insider threat as a current...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued a guide to help organizations guard against malicious insiders. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration...

There’s yet another massive data breach in the news nowadays – 27,000 University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) employees have had their personal information put at risk by a data breach. The cause of the data breach is still under investigation, but that just makes it even more alarming. These kinds of situations are happening more and more often, with lots of people’s personally identifiable information (PII) being put at risk; but even with...

There’s yet another massive data breach in the news nowadays – 27,000 University of Pittsburg Medical Center (UPMC) employees have had their personal information...

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