Is your network secure for processing credit cards?

If your business accepts payment in the form of a credit card, your business could be at risk!

What?  Waitaminute.  Of course my business accepts credit cards.  Who pays with cash or check these days?  But what do you mean, my ‘business could be at risk?’

It’s called ‘PCI Compliance.’ If that phrase is vague or altogether absent from your nomenclature, I’ll break it down to a 10,000-foot view for you.  Many of you readers may know exactly what I’m talking about, but for those of you that don’t…

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Are You Ready for This?

The summer storm season is here!  Is your computer system ready for it?  It’s probably not something that is on you or any other business owners mind, but it is definitely worth taking the time to protect your investment. For example, lightning can send a spectacular power surge along any conductive line destroying everything in its path. Read more...

Protecting Cloud Traffic

More and more companies, ranging from the large enterprise to small businesses, are expressing interest in moving their infrastructure to the cloud and yet wanting to see their data secured.  Security is becoming more and more of an issue as cloud computing usage increases.

What is cloud computing? You could ask 100 people what cloud computing is and I’m pretty sure you would get 100 different answers.  According to InfoWorld:

“Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Read more...

Network Efficiency=Employee Productivity

We have all had the experience of working on a slow system. It is frustrating and annoying much less time consuming. Here are just a few ways to ensure that your network is working efficiently.

1. Update your antivirus software.  Many people think that just because they have an antivirus icon they have antivirus software up and running on the network.  Furthermore, they often ignore the message that says the antivirus software is about to expire and assume it is still up and running once the expiration date has passed.

As with other computer programs, there is an annual fee and a date at which the antivirus software expires.  When you are ready to renew, check out the reviews for antivirus software from PC Magazine at http://www.pcmag.com/reviews/antivirus. Of course each system is unique and your IT Consulting Denver team can give you a free analysis and recommend the best software for your particular network.

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The solution to computer outage nightmares!

It’s down again and you are losing productivity every minute that computer is not operable. Of course when you call your normal IT services company in Denver, they have every excuse in the book and can’t get to you until late tomorrow afternoon. That’s all you need today…you have that big project in the works and the system is down. Again!! Not to mention that you are losing money by the minute in employee productivity.

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