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Dropbox is one of the most popular cloud applications for law firms. As a legal professional, you must consider the ethical obligation to maintain client confidentiality while using the cloud. This means employing reasonable measures to ensure security of data stored in the free, multi-user sync app.

As a business owner, the decision between outsourcing vs. in-house IT support can be difficult and time consuming. Ultimately, you want to choose the most effective way to support your IT systems and end-users. But how do you know which option is the most effective for your business?

Let’s start by defining the word “outsourcing,” which happens to be an inconsistently used term.

Acceptable vs. Unacceptable Social Media Behavior

Social media is extremely popular for consumers and businesses alike. A well-structured social media plan can be powerful when successfully launched, but it can also become a disaster if employees aren’t knowledgeable about acceptable and unacceptable social media behavior.

Designing and implementing a comprehensive Data Breach Response Plan is a must during the first quarter of 2014.   What's stopping you from being prepared?
Retailers including Target, Neiman Marcus, and Michaels, experienced data breaches in the beginning of 2014. For many businesses, these massive data breaches served as a wakeup call.

What would happen to your business if a natural disaster ruined your equipment or your employees couldn’t get to the office? Most businesses would experience a significant loss in revenue and customer confidence

It’s critical to have a business continuity plan in place before a disaster so you can quickly recover.

According to recent studies, Android smartphone owners must be careful when downloading new applications. A majority of malware is designed to target Google’s Android operating system.

The F-Secure’s Mobile Threat Report found a 26% increase in the the number of mobile malware threats from the previous quarter.

New memory-scraping malware was recently released to steal payment card data from point-of-sale (PoS) systems. According to cyber security firm, IntelCrawler, the malware, known as Decebal can steal encrypted data on the magnetic stripe of credit or debit cards.

We Can Help To Protect You and Your Business Reputation.
As a retail organization, large or small, you must protect your sensitive customer data. It’s mandatory for you to do this to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and to maintain your good standing with customers.

There is a collection of tips on the internet for saving your phone battery. Some of them, though, seem unrealistic, such as dimming your screen so low you can barely read it or turning off features you truly need on a regular basis [I.E. putting it in Airplane mode]. What is a better use of your time, fiddling with your settings or recharging your phone?

That being said, here are the top 5 reasonable battery-saving tips that actually work:

Turn off Push Email.

A disaster recovery test evaluates your business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure they are functional and efficient in the event of a disaster. It’s critical to test your disaster recovery plan on a regular basis to ensure critical applications and operations continue operating after an interruption of service.