Is Your Business in the Cloud?

Having your business in the cloud has many benefits, including substantial cost savings, greater security to increased flexibility and a greener footprint for your organization.

Cloud computing has a business model that is designed similarly to that used by utility companies, users only pay for the amount of services they consume and only when they need them, while the provider company bears the responsibility and expense for building and maintaining the network. Read more...

Internet and Network Security

We all know that Internet security is important, but do you know how important? Security techniques for ensuring that data stored in a computer cannot be read or compromised by any individuals without authorization are vital for any business.

Internet and network security can be achieved through a variety of different ways. Read more...

Data & Information Security

Just as you have locks and alarm systems on your doors to protect physical assets, you need electronic protection for valuable business information. Read more...

The Advantages of Remote Monitoring

Remote IT system monitoring allows business leaders to access computers or network servers across the Internet or a company’s network from any computer. Users can then see and manage the connected computer to do troubleshooting and other important tasks. Read more...

10 Cyber “Threat” Trends

1. Attacks via USB drives: as these types of drives become cheaper and more ubiquitous, malware and Trojans will spread on them. Many companies hand out USB drives at trade shows.

2. Large-scale, targeted botnet attacks.

3. Denial of service attacks, like those that affected San Francisco-based Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) in the Wikileaks fiasco.

4.More attacks via social networks like Facebook Inc. Future viruses will likely be designed to steal or delete users’ personal information, which can be sold in numerous black markets.

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Are Hackers Putting Your Business in Danger?

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by Eric Pratt

With the Wiki Leaks drama of the past week it seems there is a lot of speculation circulating as regard to who's at risk, what can be done, and who to turn to for support.  That's where QeH2 Business Solutions and IT Support comes in!  With a host of Disaster Recovery, Internet Security, Network Security and protection for the small business.

With fear comes rash decisions however (exactly what hackers want).  Look to avoid some of the many scares that are crippling businesses and causing them to over spend.  For example, see this recent email I received from our tenant regarding just this issue, and QeH2 Partner Ian Holt's thoughts following...

WARNING: Internet usage and DoS attacks

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Email Safety

by Colin MacDonald

I have noticed the past few months a lot of clients getting viruses on their machines.There hasn’t been the usual scare of “OH NO! Look out, there’s a worm virus attack happening!!” and everyone freaks out, it’s just a normal day in the virus world. As it affects me and the amount of work that I do, I wanted to find out how they were getting these viruses and then come up with a few easy ways to prevent them. I decided to look at their emails, all these steps I have implemented at at least 1 company, with most of them scattered throughout other clients.

1. Problems

Attachments – Of course everyone should be wary of opening attachments in emails. If it’s a video or pictures, it may be infected with malware or a virus.

Forwards – The funny jokes and touching stories that people share online. You can tell that you’re getting these by the “fwd fwd fwd fwd.....” in the subject line. I personally don’t read forwards. It’s that easy of a choice to make. For the 30 seconds that I may chuckle or feel good about reading what the story was, it’s not worth the 3 hours worth of work that I must do to clean my computer of infections

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