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Securing your business is a two step process: Awareness and vigilance. But first you've got to know what you don't know. That's where BizSafe - a service of Portfolio and Wessel Accounting - can help. The question isn't if you'll be hacked or defrauded, it's when you'll learn about it.
People get frustrated with technology because they have a fundamental misunderstanding about what the point of it is. It is not a magic bullet to make your life easier (although that can be a by-product). It is to expand your capabilities, connect you with things you never knew you needed and give you insights into your business and your customers that you never imagined. But that does not come easy. It's work. But the payoff is power - and that's worth the journey.
Legions of debit card holders have stopped using their cards because of the very real danger of hackers gaining access directly into their bank accounts if their cards are hacked. Surprisingly, using an app on your smartphone may give you the peace of mind you need to save your debit card.
Replacing debit cards is frustrating and concerning. But worse, it casts a pall over the advancements in mobile payments. If the card in my wallet isn't safe, how can it possibly be safe to carry that information around in my phone? Here's how. (First in a two part look at mobile payments).
Cost is a driving factor for many small businesses, but some small expenses can make a big difference in how we present ourselves. We may be small, but we don't have to look small-time.
Shadow IT thrived in the early years of desktop computing. But system complexity and security demands shut down the non-IT users performing IT functions. Cloud computing, software as a service and IT responsiveness issues are bringing Shadow IT back into the light. Good or bad? That jury is still out.
Microsoft gets so many things right in Outlook that it is both surprising and discouraging that they miss something as basic as a consolidated inbox - at least as an option. Part of the Surface-to-Air experiment.
