The Importance of Management and Maintenance
 Tired of getting vague error messages when you try certain operations on your computer? Does it seem like it's running slower every day? Don't wait for your computer to crash to start thinking about patches, updates, and other routine maintenance tasks.
The key to a healthy, efficient computer is to be proactive, not reactive. If you wait until something's broke to fix it, you'll be too late. In business today, technology related downtime leads to lost productivity, lost revenue, and increased I.T. expenses. Most "emergencies" can easily prevented with a small amount of up front time and investment.
Who really has time to keep up with patches, updates, and current licenses? Running your business is a full time job, and leaves little time to be concerned with installing the latest updates. Lucky for you, we have the answer:
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Password Strength is Vital
in Protecting Your Business and Personal Information
 In today's technologically driven business marketplace one of most often overlooked points of vulnerability to your business and personal security is the strength or weakness of the passwords that you define for usage when logging into: your computer network, email provider, online banking, accounting or payroll applications. To underestimate the importance of strong passwords is to leave the door wide open to identity theft and corporate piracy. Your passwords must be a robust combination of all the characters that are available, must be unique for different applications and must not be a word commonly found in any dictionaries, in any language.
We have been conditioned to use weak passwords. For many people the first password we ever needed was for our ATM cards. If this is the case we were limited to the numerals on the keypad 0-9. That simply will not cut it anymore. Malicious computer deciphering programs can run through all of the possible combinations in a matter of seconds. The same types of programs can run through all of the words in the dictionary, plus most common names, in multiple languages even spelled backwards, in a matter of minutes. You cannot have the same password for all of your password needs; if that one password was to get compromised then all of your sensitive private data would be at risk.
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Why Your Company Needs an Email Policy
 Email is an important and necessary part of your business. It provides an economical and instant means of communicating with staff, customers, and vendors - that's both simple to use and enables increased efficiency. An email policy is required to protect this necessary business tool.
An email policy is a legal document that details your organization's definition of acceptable use for the company email system. It should indicate who emails can be received from or sent to, as well as outline what constitutes appropriate content for work emails.
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