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Lenovo Debuts ThinkCentre All-In-One PC -- For Business!

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:42 AM ET | Nov 2, 2009

All-In-One PCs have traditionally been aimed at the consumer market -- you know, for the kitchen counter and such. But Lenovo says it's ThinkCentre A70z was designed specifically for small and midsize businesses.

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IT Training Tools For Even The Tightest Budget

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 09:12 PM ET | May 13, 2009

Education is a sound investment for any small-business IT manager. And if you know where to look, it's an investment you can make for just pennies a day.

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Back To School For Technology

Posted by Jennifer Moline 02:10 PM ET | Feb 4, 2009

A tech instructor is revamping the curriculum for his school district's business department. Check out his ideas and then weigh in on what you'd like to see taught so that future employees are fully qualified and prepared.

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10GB Ethernet Looks For A Home In The Midmarket -- And On The Motherboard

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:03 PM ET | Jan 28, 2009

When you think of 10GB Ethernet, you probably think of an esoteric technology primarily used in large enterprises and high-performance computing applications. You're mostly right, but not for long.

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Obama's Inauguration Speech Praises Tech, Ignores Small Business

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:15 PM ET | Jan 20, 2009

Obama's highly anticipated inaugural address looked to technology to solve our problems, but failed to mention small businesses.

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National Cyber Security Awareness Month: Do You Know Where Your Protection Is?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:15 PM ET | Oct 2, 2008

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month -- an official name for what every month should be. And, like every month, cyber-monickered or not, this month looks to be a bit worse than last on most security fronts. Raising cyber security awareness is more necessary than ever. Cyber Security Month may not be the way to do it.

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Are Competitor Security Problems A Business Advantage Worth Talkng?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:42 PM ET | Aug 20, 2008

The news that one of the nation's leading student testing companies had its security problems made public by another testing company should give us all pause. How worried do we need to be about competitors blowing the security whistle on us? How worried should that type of competitor be about protecting an industry's customers as well as its own competitive advantage?

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Learn To Hack -- Ethically!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 04:37 PM ET | Feb 21, 2008

Know your enemy means knowing how your enemy works. That's the philosophy behind McAfee's Foundstone Professional Services Ethical Hacking course. You, too, can learn how to find and exploit network vulnerabilities -- but only if you pledge to use the knowledge for good.

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Survey: 40 Percent Of You Still Think Your Networks Are Insecure (And You're Probably Right)

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:34 AM ET | Dec 14, 2007

And most of the rest of you continue to leave endpoints unguarded, according to a new survey of small and midsize businesses.

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SANS Says You And Your Employees Are Top Security Risks. Ya Think?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:58 PM ET | Dec 4, 2007

Computer security trainer SANS Institute came out with its top threats of 2007 recently, and guess what? You're on the list, and so are your employees; so am I, and, probably, so is everybody we know and most of the people we don't.

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Security Training: Take This Job And Secure It!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:27 AM ET | Nov 6, 2007

Did you hear the one about the technology that was changing the way people do business? The one everybody wanted but nobody wanted to learn how to use safely?

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Business Security Requires Network Security Requires Employee Security Requires Job Security

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:27 AM ET | Oct 8, 2007

The employee security I'm talking about here is your technical team's -- and your ability to hold onto them.

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Network Security Problems? Blame The Boss!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:04 PM ET | Oct 4, 2007

A recent pre-prison interview with a convicted hacker offers some surprising and important lessons in network and computer security.

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Consumers May "Get" Cyber Security -- But That Doesn't Mean They've Got It

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:52 AM ET | Oct 3, 2007

More than 90 percent of consumers think their PCs -- and their computing habits -- are safe. Half of them are wrong.

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Disaster Recovery: Plan for Recovery, Not for Disaster

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:27 AM ET | Sep 27, 2007

So many elements to business IT operations -- so many elements that can get sliced, diced, slammed, flooded, flamed, hacked, attacked, smashed and just plain hammered that your disaster recovery plan has to be universal to be effective.

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