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Welcome
It's
difficult for us to believe that November is already
half-over and 2009 is just around the corner! This
month has been unseasonably warm, hasn't it? Our
team of technicians recently spent the weekend
rolling up their sleeves on another Small Business
Server 2008 deployment, so please ask them-- or our
main office!-- if you're interested in learning what
features will be available in this newest version.
We hope you enjoy this month's newsletter-- touching
on the upcoming holiday, we mention what each of us
are thankful for. What we didn't say there, we'll
say here: we are thankful for YOU!
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Beware This Latest Threat to Your
Personal Identity!
by Scott Jordan, President,
DELTEC It is really
too bad, but the reality today is that we can’t be too trusting any
more. It seems like there is some criminal around every corner ready to
dupe us into giving up personal information and then stealing us blind.
The only solution is to be vigilant, and sadly, a little paranoid.
 The latest of the schemes
already has a name. It is called “vishing.” If that doesn’t sound
descriptive, don’t worry, it will make sense soon. Many of you may
remember hearing of a technique called “phishing”, a play on words that
basically names a social engineering technique used to steal your
identity, or at least parts of it.
The phishing technique relied on an
email sent to you, apparently from a trusted source, such as Microsoft,
eBay, or a major bank, asking you to follow a web link to “reactivate”
or “update” your account. The email, link, and everything was cleverly
disguised to look very legitimate. However, the link, of course, led to
a site that happily collected your personal information directly into a
criminal’s database for later sale on the black market. The term
“phishing” then was coined as a nomenclature for the practice of fishing
for credit cards, social security numbers, bank account numbers, and the
like.
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Thinking about hiring your own
internal IT staff –
think again!
Outsourcing your IT brings additional
business value
by Stuart R. Crawford, V.P., IT
Matters, Inc.
Businesses today wrestle and grapple with the thought of hiring their
own technology support staff to support their daily need for IT support
without fully understanding the risks and the costs associated with
having their own team of technology professionals.
Business owners, C level
execs and Managers are attracted to the idea of having a team or a
consultant readily available within shouting distance down the hall,
basically having an IT resource committed to them 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week. However, many of today’s business owners across the country are
not aware of the total risks their business is exposed to by electing to
bring their technology support in-house.
More often than not it is
purely a cost based decision, on the surface it may appear to be more
cost effective to hire a consultant or employee who is committed as a
full time employee. CFOs and Accounting Managers often look only at the
cost of having their IT outsourced and or attracted to hiring someone
for a few thousand dollars a month as part of their staff will save
their company in the long run. This is not the case in reality and by
having a full time employee will actually end up costing business today
more in the long run.
So what are the advantages
of having an IT Partner who focuses on delivering a complete managed
technology solution?
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The Elephant Named Sharepoint
 Many
of us have heard the fable about the blind men and the elephant. When the men
were asked to describe what an elephant looked like the descriptions ranged from
a snake to a tree to a fan depending on whether the blind man had touched the
trunk, the leg or the ear.
What does an ancient fable like this have to do with
technology? It’s the same problem we have when we try to explain to you how
useful a tool Microsoft SharePoint can be to your business. SharePoint is so
flexible and has so many uses; we often have trouble describing it in a way you
can get the whole picture.
So, here goes our description of
SharePoint.
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