Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Window 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in 2011. At that time, knowing that we would will soon be getting calls to update computers, we decided to give SP1 a spin. We attempted to install SP1 on three computers so far without much luck. First, using automatic update did not work. The download always got stuck at 90 or 91 percent complete.
Small Business
Your Business and the CIA Triad: What’s your Status?
The CIA triad is an information systems security term that refers to the critical task of data protection. The core goal of information security is to assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of all the sensitive data kept by an organization. That’s critical for the continuity of business operations, as well as legally and ethically required.
So what is the CIA triad?
It provides for safely using paper- and computer-based data systems, email, fax machines, telephones, web browsers, and even just talking out loud through the provision of:
Confidentiality of data – where you ensure that critical data is only accessed by people with proper approval and on a need to know basis.
Confidentiality is related to the broader concept of data privacy – the act of limiting access to Personally Identifiable Information (PII). In the US, a range of state and federal laws, with abbreviations like FERPA, FSMA, and HIPAA, set the legal terms of privacy.
SMBs and Business Continuity Plans
Question: What is the cost of a hardware failure to your business? If you are like most business owners, you are already calculating the cost of the server, hard drive, installation cost etc. But is that really the cost to your business? To put it another way, what would it cost you to replace the DATA that was lost? That, to me, is the actual cost. How many months will it take to re-enter your accounting or customer data for example if your server’s hard drive were to simply kaput and become unavailable? For those lucky ones who have not experienced it, pray it does not happen to you. For those of us who have experienced it, we know it will never happen again, right?
Business owners have a false sense of security when it comes to the issue of Business Continuity which is often thought of as just an IT (Information Technology) problem. “We have a good backup system so we are fine”. There is often the tendency to overlook flaws on business processes, application development, and logistics.
How To Fix Error 80072EFD On Small Business Server 2008
For several months, I had a client with a Small Business Server 2008 that just would not update. It worked for a while and just suddenly quit after a round of updates through automatic update. No matter what I tried from confirming network connectivity, checking firewall settings, adding and re-adding the update sites to firewall exceptions, disabling anti-virus applications and software accelerators to spending long hours reading Technet articles and suggested fixes from Microsoft, and a thorough step-by-step here, the problem would not go away and kept giving “Windows can’t connect to update…” error 80072efd.
The iPad Hype: Much Ado About Nothing?
Apple Computers (yes, that is what it originally was) recently announced a new iPhone-like mobile computing device called the iPad. Unless you live in the most remote of Islands, I’m sure that is all you’ve heard or read about in the past week.
Astaro Releases Free Edition for Small Businesses
Astaro Corporation, a leading network security vendor, recently announced the launch of the Essential Firewall edition of its flagship security solution Astaro Security Gateway (ASG), available for free to all organizations worldwide. The Essential Firewall edition is claimed to include all the necessary functionality that all organizations need to secure their networks and operate a successful business, but we found some limitations.