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Weakest Link |
5 Easy Ways
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The Weakest Link in Network Security
Continued by Peter Alexander reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
Let me give you an example. In March 2006, a major financial services firm with extensive network security disclosed that one of its portable computers was stolen. The laptop contained the Social Security numbers of nearly 200,000 people. How did it happen? An employee of the firm, dining in a restaurant with colleagues, had locked the laptop in the trunk of a SUV. During dinner, one of the employee's colleagues retrieved an item from the vehicle and forgot to re-lock it. As fate would have it, there was a rash of car thefts occurring in that particular area at that particular time, and the rest is history. |
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Holding a Web meeting? 5
pitfalls to avoid by Christopher Elliott reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
Well, virtual meetings aren't expensive anymore. But they're still relatively simple, even if you're talking now about meetings held via the Internet instead of by phone. In fact, getting up and running with Web conferencing software today is so easy that virtually anyone with a PC and an Internet connection can do it. For example, it took me less than two minutes to sign up for Microsoft Office Live Meeting's free 14-day trial. If it's that easy, how much harder can holding a Web conference be? |
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Your
small-business network may be protected by firewalls, intrusion
detection and other state-of-the-art security technologies. And yet, all
it takes is one person's carelessness, and suddenly it's as if you have
no network security at all. 
Think hard now. Can you
remember your first virtual meeting? For many of you, it was in the
latter decades of the 20th century, and you likely called it a
"teleconference." If so, chances are you can recall how simple — but
expensive — the technology used to be. 
un-American?
by Mike Gonsalves, StrategicFusion
Hardly! Outsourcing is as American as Mom and Apple Pie! A lot of people believe that outsourcing is the problem with America's economy today. For the most part they equate outsourcing with sending jobs overseas (off-shoring). The fact is that outsourcing started long ago when production lines where first formed to manufacture everything from nails for building to autos for driving.
Yes, outsourcing has gotten very sophisticated over the last decade or so. Yes, we are competing on a global scale for jobs, especially in certain sectors. But the fact remains that small businesses can help themselves grow and thrive by outsourcing tasks that are:
1. Difficult to master
quickly
2. Better done by someone at a lower overall (more efficient) pay scale
For example, you can do your taxes yourself, or you can hire an accountant. I don't hire an accountant to add the numbers up for me on a form (Turbo Tax can do that just fine). I hire an accountant to make sure the numbers are in the right boxes, that's outsourcing. It would take me months (or years) to gain even the slightest competitive advantage on my accountant, so I rely on him and his firm to do the best job possible.
