Paul Mah

One of the often-heard pieces of advice when it comes to managing passwords is to enforce changing them on a regular basis. However, as businesses with

Like it or not, email messages have become a crucial component of business communications in the world. Beyond its utility as a communication medium, many

Two of the most common rallying cries when it comes to reducing cost and increasing efficiency would probably be the use of cloud and BYOD. In fact, I

Headlines focusing on natural disasters are sure to cause small and mid-sized businesses to re-examine if their IT infrastructure is capable of surviving

As budgets shrink, one of the expenditures perennially on the chopping block is likely to be the funds allocated to IT security. The fact that security

If there is one thing that is almost certain about most SMBs, it is how IT departments are constantly under pressure to get more done with less. While

The performance enhancements offered by solid-state drives (SSDs) have been known and written about for some years now. Despite that, I do continue to

Netgear this week took the wraps off three new 10G Ethernet switches designed with the needs of small and mid-sized businesses in mind. The new device

In my last post, I outlined the importance of ensuring that data stored on portable storage devices is encrypted. This is a challenge to some SMBs that

The relative costs of data leakage have been increasing over the years, no doubt caused by the growing role of computers in businesses. Security vendor

Hackers are using swathes of server machines to participate in DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attacks against their targets, according to a New

Putting together a disaster recovery plan isn’t something that is reserved to the domain of large or enterprise businesses. While the endeavor can indeed