The 7 Things You MUST Include in Your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan

Is your business prepared to weather an information technology disaster? It’s more than just putting money aside to repair your computers if they break down. Imagine how much time you might lose if you couldn’t use your every-day electronic systems: being unable to access your important client records, kept from accessing your email or the…

Ensure Your Information Technology Solutions Are Serving The Goals of Your Small Business, Not Hindering Them

Managing a small business means making sure each part of your business is working in harmony with the others. It’s a delicate balancing act to keep everything working together, and every time something fails, that means time and dollars lost that you may never get back. When your Information Technology systems fail, that can make…

Five Signs Your Business Is Getting Horrible Service From Your IT Company

When you hire an information technology support company to support your business, you’re putting your faith in them to ensure you’re getting the most out of your technology investments and services. You need professionals who not only know the ins and outs of technology, but also how to make sure that your technology investments are…

Not All That Glitters is Gold – Facebook Colour Changing Application Installs Virus Instead

Attention all Facebook users! As enticing as changing the colour of your profile page sounds, be aware: The new Facebook app that is claiming it can change the colour of your profile page, is really a virus. Big shocker there right? Well, according to a Cheetah Mobile Security blog post, more than 10,000 people around…

Three Misconceptions About Canada’s New Antispam Rules (CASL)

Are you CASL compliant yet? The federal government recently announced that most regulations for Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL for short) came into effect on July 1st, 2014. The remaining regulations for CASL are not supposed to be effective until 2017. However, it is said that the majority of small Canadian businesses are not prepared to…

Use These Relational Databases in Excel to Accelerate the Recording of Your Important Business Data

The latest version of Microsoft Excel is a great addition to any office as it is now more efficient, functional and intuitive than ever before.  Excel’s table tools make it easy to link charts and cells, perform searches, and create dynamically updated reports. In this sense, it functions somewhat like a relational database. A relational…

Employers Blacklist Apps to Ensure Employee Productivity & Data Security

Business Owners and Managers have recently been cracking down on employees using apps on the job that were built by two of the large tech corporations involved in the NSA spying scandal, Facebook and Google. According to a study compiled by mobile device management specialists Fiberlink, FB and GOOG apps are on the top of the…

Still running an older version of Internet Explorer? Time to let go and look at upgrading before time runs out.

Microsoft Drops Support for Older Systems Running Internet Explorer – Find out if Your Business is Affected! It’s time to get rid of your old Microsoft PC. If newer technology hasn’t convinced you yet, this might. Microsoft has announced that they will drop support for older versions of Internet Explorer. Starting January 12th, 2016, Microsoft…

Business Information At Risk?  Are All Doors Locked Into Your IT Network?

A penetration test, or pentest for short, is when an intentional attack is made on your business IT systems in order to find security weaknesses and potentially gain access to its functionality and data. Unfortunately, despite the growth of cyber threats too many companies only conduct a penetration test when they have to, or if…