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The SynerTel Sentinel  Online Edition 
June  2013   Issue 184
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Welcome Shawn Mueller
PRISM. SCHMIZM!
$50K data breach fine - protect yourself today
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Perturbed about PRISM? Learn how your searches can be private.

On the go more than ever? Our mobility enhancements for Allworx and Toshiba systems means you can selectively do business from anywhere - on your terms! 
 
 Small business earns BIG fine for data privacy breach. How's your data security comfort level?

And meet our newest team member, Shawn Mueller!
 
 

Ben Stiegler, CEO
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Allworx Tablet Softphone - Its within REACH!
REACHWe're very excited to introduce the Allworx REACH for tablets. If you've got your tablet - you've got your office phone, too - and a lot more!  See the status of everyone in your company. Transfer calls to them by dragging or clicking. Use the speakerphone of your tablet - or your bluetooth headset. 

Even better, your tablet can be integrated with your desk phone, and your smart phone - so everything works smoothly together!  Released today for iPad, and very shortly for Android, REACH will change how you communicate.
REACH on iPad
REACH

Current Allworx users - ask us how easy it is to add REACH to your system today.

Thinking about IP Telephony and unified reach-anywhere communications? Call us today at 415 746-1801

Welcome Shawn Mueller - Director of Operations
 
ShawnShawn MuellerSynerTel welcomes Shawn Mueller as our new Director of Operations!  With over 10 years of Managed IT and project experience both in the trenches as a field engineer, support center manager, project manager, and virtual CIO.  Shawn brings a robust set of experiences and confidence to SynerTel client services. She has taken root quickly, and when you speak with her you'll notice her steady cheerfulness and unflappability! 

 

 

Shawn choreographs the efforts of our engineers, trainers, Network Operations Center, support team, and subcontractors across the globe to ensure client systems are designed and installed correctly, work properly, and are maintained and supported in tip-top shape!

 

 

You can reach her at smueller@synertel.com or 415 746-1806
PRISM, SCHMIZM!  Ways to browse without being NSA- tracked
Duck Duck Go
Search without Tracking
PrismWhat a surprise that the public is being watched, tracked, and recorded through the search engines that we all use more than pencils and pens every day. While the Constitutional issues will take some time to sort out, here's what you can do today to keep your life private.

While PRISM is tapped into the "big-10" of search and cloud hosting firms (Google, Apple,Bing, etc.), there are several smaller yet very effective search engines which are not tapped - (yet, anyway).

So next time you're plotting a revolution, doing a patent search relevant to your next big secret idea, or just prefer not to be observed - try one of these.

 Wolfram Alpha
 
Unsettling Precedent - Small Data Privacy Breach draws BIG $50K fine
HIPAA HIPAAAs reported by Paul McNamara in NetworkWorld earlier this year, the loss of a single laptop containing sensitive personal information about 441 patience cost an Idaho non-profit hospice center $50K.  The information was not encrypted.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced last week that it has reached an agreement with the Hospice of North Idaho that will see the hospice pay $50,000 for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

 

"This action sends a strong message to the health care industry that, regardless of size, covered entities must take action and will be held accountable for safeguarding their patients' health information." said HHS Office of Civil Rights Director Leon Rodriguez in a press release. "Encryption is an easy method for making lost information unusable, unreadable and undecipherable."

 

Wondering if your data security - from office network to mobile devices -- is up to snuff?  Ask us about our Information Security Audits.