Why do you need a dashboard to run your business? A simple example: Trying out a new ice cream shop.
When you hop in the car and head off to a new ice cream shop, some place you really want to go, but you haven’t been before…You enter ice cream shop’s address in your GPS, turn the key, take your car out of park and start your mission, right?
Can you imagine driving without a dashboard? No indication of your car’s speed? Not knowing how much gas you have left? Would you feel comfortable to ask your passenger to guess if you were in drive, neutral, reverse, or park based on how the car was moving?
Driving this way would be ludicrous, yet many business owners are trying to run a business this way!
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Recently, an Internet hacker who already took down several government websites shifted their focus onto Tennessee. The hacker, who is using the online name Vikingdom2015, used Twitter as a medium to brag about their activities. Vikingdom2015 made an attack last week on TN.gov, but fortunately the state had the appropriate security measures in place to prevent their website from being taken down.
Dynamic Edge was featured in a news story about this particular case. In the video below, DynEdger Eric Near lends his expertise on Internet security.
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We have received reports that there has been an increase in CryptoWall infections as of late.
CryptoWall is a ransomware program created by cyber criminals that infects a user’s computer and encrypts their files without their consent. The program then asks the user to pay a fee in order to have their files restored, but provides no guarantee that paying the fee will actually unencrypt their files.
To prevent CryptoWall, avoid opening any attachments on any emails you receive that seem suspicious, since it is easily spread through spam message attachments. Also do not click on any questionable online advertisements you may see, as we have recently learned that online ads can contain CrypoWall.
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Have you ever sent out an email that was too big and got a message back reading: “undeliverable message,” or worse the message just didn’t go through? Do you need to be able to update a file, and have a number of other people access those updates instantly? Would you like to just be able to share a file with someone from a different company? Read on, I have the solution for you.
When email was designed back in 1971, it was set up to send short little snippets of text around. It is sometimes wondered if this primitive form of text messaging should be considered email. Think of how a telegraph works and you pretty much sum up the method that email uses to send stuff around the internet. Fast forward to 2015, and we are looking to do something else: send 13MB PDFs files or 5MB Excel files around. The issue? Email just wasn’t designed for big attachments.
Then there’s the next issue with email, version control. Here’s the story:
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Q: What are fiCloud Mobile Backups?
A: An extra level of protection to make sure you never lose a hard day’s work.
When we decided to build our mobile backup solution, we fist examined the competition. Here’s why our backups are better than theirs:
1. Mozy: The main reason we ruled Mozy out was because when you need to restore your backup, Mozy limits your bandwidth after a period of time. One of our key criteria is speedy recovery when you need it most. Restoring from Mozy ends up feeling like filing up a tanker truck with a garden hose.
2. DropBox: DropBox is very simple and good for home users who are saving noncritical files. But for business, DropBox lacks any type of reporting to confirm backups are actually taking place. It would be impossible to keep track of multiple users and make sure people are getting all their stuff backed up.
3. Carbonite: Similar to Mozy, Carbonite pinches bandwidth, but they do it while uploading your backup. We also found a number of reports stating that users had difficulty downloading back-ups. Too many red flags to consider using for our clients.
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We asked our staff to share some of their gift ideas for this holiday season. Here is what they came up with!
Decker has been having fun with the Instax SHARE Smartphone Wireless Printer. This allows you to “print” photos you take with your phone to instant film. The application lets you add text, frames, etc. to personalize your pictures. Price: $179
~ Decker Chaney
Have you ever wanted to be Captain Kirk from Star Trek? Matthew suggests checking out the Redshirts Deluxe Edition Card Game. Bring your crew of redshirted officers on your away mission along with your fellow Captains. The first person to lose all their Redshirts wins! Fans of Star Trek the Original Series will like the humor in the Redshirts Card Game. Price: $27.99
~ Matthew Davenport
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