Is Your Cell Phone Vulnerable to Eavesdropping?
Do you ever feel like Big Brother is always watching? George Orwell’s apocalyptic novel, 1984, gave us the creeps: No matter what a person did or said, nothing was private. There was always someone monitoring every movement; including people’s thoughts. ...
Are You Ready For a Cyber Attack?
When we first started using the internet a couple of decades ago (yes, it’s been that long), our main concerns were that dial-up would take too long to connect, or that an incoming phone call would disconnect us in the ...
Cybersecurity Tips for Cyber Monday
November is finally here! (Where did 2017 go?) This is when time really starts speeding up for the rest of the year, and before you know it, it’ll be America’s favorite holiday: Cyber Monday. Because what says “This is USA!” ...
Why Optimizing SQL Matters
MS SQL Server is a fabulous product, but it does need some care and attention. We have found that many companies in today's mid-market tier have grown faster than expected. Thus they were worried about their application development, and security ...
How to Choose a Cloud Service Provider
Remember the first computer you ever used? Back in the early days, it was common to store information on diskettes. Walking around with one made us feel a bit futuristic. Today, those disks are as anachronistic as pay phones. When ...
How to Hire the Perfect Database Administrator
A Database Administrator, or DBA, especially competent ones, can be difficult to find, validate technically, and hire, as they are rare and in high demand. This article discusses finding, scoping, and acquiring your new DBA. Finding a DBA Where do ...
Are Your Apps Making You Vulnerable to Cyber Threats?
How many people do you know without a smartphone? These nifty little gadgets have practically become a fifth limb for most of us; and we’ve come to rely on them for everything: online banking, downloading music, GPS maps, playing Scrabble ...
Soaring Eagle Client Retention Strategy
A couple of weeks ago our Sales Director and I met with a marketing mentor, and a discussed profiling our customers. What is an excellent customer? How do we define them? How do we create the right message and services ...
How to Maintain a Healthy Work-Life Balance
As the economics of our businesses goes through ebbs and tides, our work-life balance tends to follow those highs and lows as well. It seems like the tides get higher and the ebbs only mean we work harder and longer ...
How to Get Your Gurus to Fly in V-Formation
So you are lucky, and you have hired one or several top technical people "gurus" in their field. You know that when it comes to technology, they know their stuff. Plus, they love doing the job. They are incredibly dependable, ...
