At the heart of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the goal to protect personally identifiable information maintained by the health care and health insurance industries and to ensure it’s not breached or misused.
DetailsUnfortunately, there comes a time when all good operating systems must come to and end, and that time is fast approaching for Windows 7. The OS loses extended support (i.e. is at “end of life”) on January 14, 2020.
DetailsSecuring Online Accounts with Two-Factor Authentication Look at the list below of online services below. How many do you currently have an active account with? Obviously this isn’t an all inclusive list but it’s enough to get you to consider of all of your online accounts and take action on how you can protect them.…
DetailsWhy Do You Do What You Do? The end of the year is always a time of reflection of the past year with an eye towards the coming year. Why do we do what we do? On a purely basic level I think it comes down to helping people. What we do fulfills us. Why…
DetailsWindows 10 Upgrade – Not necessarily a missed opportunity You might remember way back Microsoft offered a free upgrade to Windows 10. All you needed was a current valid licensed OS running Windows 7 or 8.1. That free upgrade offer expired on July 29, 2016 and anyone who wanted to upgrade after that date would…
DetailsWhat is a NAS? NAS stands for Network Attached Storage. Basically it’s a mini server that sits on your network with hard disks (typically more than one hard disk). If one disk fails you can easily replace it without losing your data. A NAS is a great solution for companies that need to centrally store…
DetailsThis week I had a new client get infected by ransomware. Luckily this story is short as they had solid backups. It was a virtual machine which housed their entire Quickbooks database so of course the client was quite upset and concerned. There were valid backups so all I needed to do was restore the…
DetailsEffective October 10, 2017 Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 November Update (version 1511) as well as ending support for Office 2007.
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