Whether or not you are concerned about making your website more secure, switching to an HTTPS security-encrypted web platform is still a good idea. Why, you ask? Because having that extra level of security for your browser and site visitors will increase your Google ranking.

Too many business entities are woefully deficient in their backup plans. Many think that one or two external drives and some cloud backup is enough. Others have less than that in backup, simply depending on server rebuilding or replication in the event of a “smoking crater” type of disaster.

We all see the news stories about the big organizations like hospitals and government agencies suffering cyber breaches, but small and medium-sized businesses also need to be hyper-aware of the threat level to their own IT networks and databases as well.

One way cybersecurity can be improved to a great degree is by creating strong, hard-to-decipher passwords that are difficult for hackers to discern. These days, cybercriminals are highly motivated, and can get at simply hashed, basic, alpha-numeric passwords using various methods.

If you haven’t heard or seriously considered the terms disaster recovery, data loss, or business continuity, then you should familiarize yourself with them. Because any business can suffer catastrophic data loss due to natural disaster, cyberattack, or employee cyber breach (whether inadvertent or deliberate). So, how sound and firm is your plan for data recovery, Portland? If you are a Portland business in need of a data recovery plan, then keep reading.

Many companies are having to re-think their disaster recovery strategies due mainly to the recent spike in ransomware attacks, but also because of malware infection in general. With ransomware sneaking into more IT systems than ever before, and at such an alarming rate, organizations and enterprises are having to put cybersecurity and disaster recovery on the front burner.

It doesn’t matter what industry you work in – the great importance of having a viable business continuity and disaster recovery plan in place cannot be overstated. The occasional and inevitable disasters which may befall any business entity come unannounced, and often at a high price.

When Willamette Valley Country Club required a proactive technical support partner, they selected Phoenix Technology. Phoenix Technology provided them with an extensive network assessment, cost-effective upgrades and the responsive IT support they needed.

There’s a lot of talk these days about mobile phone batteries and charging, but laptop batteries are in a class all their own and deserve attention. Your laptop battery is one of its most important components – although we tend only to think of things like monitor size, or RAM and CPU power when we speak of laptops.

In case you needed another reason for regularly changing your passwords, the recently-uncovered Yahoo hack of 500 million accounts is probably the reason of the decade so far. The hack and subsequent data theft involving half a billion Yahoo accounts is the largest of its kind – ever.