What is Patch Management? The importance of Patch Management is most likely ignored among the security topics, but it is a critical component of any security plan. Patch Management is the process of handling all the updates of components within the companies information system. These include routers, firewalls, servers, operating systems, anti-viruses,...
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The Importance Of Testing Technology!
The importance of testing technology is crucial. With modern businesses becoming bigger and better, competition is higher than ever before. Therefore it’s incredibly important to ensure that MSP's are offering top of the range products to companies to keep up with its rivals. One particular way you can ensure MSP's...
What is OneDrive?
What is OneDrive? OneDrive is the name given to Microsoft’s cloud services. The same way Google has Google Drive and Apple has iCloud, Microsoft provides OneDrive for people to store and exchange data online. Microsoft users can access it at any time at the OneDrive website. As cloud services have...
5 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Embrace the Cloud
If your company wants to stay competitive without paying more money, it’s time for you to embrace the cloud. RightScale shows that 93 percent of businesses now use cloud technologies in some fashion — it’s popularity is growing because it’s both inexpensive and efficient. Why You Should Use the Cloud Increase Your...
Charity Scams to Watch Out for During the Holidays
‘Tis the season of giving, which means those that are involved in charity scams may try to take advantage of your good will. A surprising fact about American donation habits is that everyday folks like yourself are the single largest driver of charitable donations in the United States. Giving USA’s...
Network Downtime = Lost Revenue + Disappointed Customers
$5400 per day. That’s the average estimated cost to retailers for network downtime, according to Gartner1. Even sluggish network performance is costly. It frustrates your customers and staff, it reduces sales as people abandon long lines, and it erodes customer loyalty. It’s a brand killer. As retail continues to evolve,...
Cannabis Compliance: Is your health information protected?
The legal regime for cannabis compliance is a highly fractured one in the U.S. As of today, we’re approaching the legalized use of either recreational or medicinal marijuana in 30 states with eight states and the District of Columbia nearing full recreational use. Five states in the country continue to...
Cannabis Dispensary Security: How Much Do You Need?
How much cannabis dispensary security do you need? The tides shifted dramatically in the way that cannabis is bought and sold, especially in California where recreational cannabis will make the state a leader in cannabis sales worldwide. Before recreational legalization, medical dispensaries required cannabis consumers to show a cannabis card...
Cloud Backups
Cloud backup, also known as online backup, is a strategy for backing up data that involves sending a copy of the data over a proprietary network to an off-site server. The server is usually hosted by a third-party service provider, which charges the backup customer a fee based on capacity, bandwidth...
The Benefits of Cloud Storage
At Signiant, we’ve embraced cloud-native software design with our two SaaS (Software as a Service) products, Media Shuttle and Flight. Signiant engineers pioneered the first true SaaS solutions for accelerated file transfers, and we continue to lead the way in innovative approaches with six out of our ten patents awarded for cloud technologies. Automatic Upgrades...
SaaS Benefits For Your Business
As technology progresses, more solutions are created to help businesses reduce costs and increase efficiency. One such solution is “Software as a Service,” aka SaaS. To know if this SaaS benefits your business, you need to know first what SaaS actually is. Read on to learn more. What is SaaS...
Hackers hide cryptocurrency mining malware in Adobe Flash updates
Crypto scammers have gotten extra creative and are now hiding cryptocurrency mining malware in legitimate updates of Adobe Flash Player. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks discovered a fake Flash updater which has been doing the rounds since early August. While it claims to install a legitimate Flash update, the malicious...