The coronavirus pandemic is affecting individuals and businesses worldwide. As COVID-19 continues to spread, the private and public sectors are exerting great efforts to cope with present and future challenges. This includes leveraging technology resources.
Business owners have enough to worry about on a daily basis. Cybersecurity should be one of the foremost concerns of any entrepreneur, however. The most important thing business owners must do is familiarize themselves with their network.
Email is the number one way that small businesses communicate both internally and with clients. Its popularity comes from allowing people to multitask and having a “send it and forget it” kind of functionality. This popularity makes it dangerous, however. Email often sends messages in plain text, which means that the message you send across the internet is not encrypted and anybody that intercepts the message can read it.
Note-taking is a vital skill in life. Whether you’re in a board meeting, conference, or lecture, you’re bound to list, quote, or summarize certain points in order to recall them later and understand them better. Thanks to new technologies, you now have more ways of taking down notes than just a pen and paper.
During a power outage, responsible business owners use emergency power to keep desktop computers from unexpectedly shutting down. While that’s certainly a good strategy for keeping machines operational and preventing data loss, there’s something else you can do to ensure that your staff remains productive while weathering a storm: uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for networking equipment.
Different Cables, Same Functionality
There are many video cables that can be used to get an image from your computer to your monitor. The differences between them generally come up in quality, functionality, and ports. At the end of the day, however, all video cables have the main purpose of getting the image to the screen.
Cloud subscriptions are undoubtedly valuable, but creating a new set of login credentials users have to memorize adds another level of inefficiency. With single sign-on (SSO), you can create one user profile that logs you into all of your online accounts.
Top Policies
Acceptable Use – This policy is important to make clear what is appropriate and what can be sanctioned. Should any legal issues arise due to a breach or lawsuit, policies are looked at immediately to determine if fault lies with the organization or not.
Workplace Analytics allows managers to assess their employees’ performance using the data gathered from Office 365. Unlike past Microsoft productivity tools that showed only the user’s own information, Workplace Analytics allows both employees and managers to view each others’ performance data.
Is your Google Chrome browser a little slower lately? While Chrome is widely known as the browser of choice, it does have a habit of consuming a lot of system RAM. Additionally, there are times when it feels slower than before. Fortunately, these problems are simple to fix.
