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Monthly updates are routine but very necessary. Also, they often if not always contain patches that close security holes. Therefore applying them quickly and effectively is required to stay safe online and protect your company’s servers, services, and private information. Keeping your personal devices up to date seems simple enough but sometimes things go wrong and you’re left with a computer that doesn’t work or worse you lose data because of hardware failure at the

Using a computer sometimes if not often involves sensitive or private information. While not putting anything private online or in the cloud keeps it secure the physical device itself still contains the information. This is why we use logon passwords and in some cases full drive encryption. In fact, the law often requires such measures to meet requirements for regulation ie. HIPAA. The physical security of a computer often isn’t enough. Though inconvenient it’s important

Technology fails. Computers stop working. Laptops get stolen. Data doesn’t need to also be lost when catastrophe strikes. Always backup means to have more than one copy because at least one at a time will encounter a problem eventually. So consider two as one and one is as good as none. There are many options when backing up from clouds to drives to NAS devices. We offer all of these and make the process as

Thousands of websites are clones of popular login pages used to harvest user names and passwords. The best practice is to never trust anything in an email including buttons and links to web pages. Always open your own tab and double-check your spelling when opening a website then bookmark it. Password managers will also help keep the process of logging in more automated. Criminals impersonate popular services as support or help desk to request password

They’re annoying and often irrelevant but sometimes they may even carry malware. Unfortunately, most websites make money from ads. this is unlikely to change. So ads will be with us for a long time. Tracking, however, is a whole other challenge that we could spend more time than it’s worth to solve. While tracking reduces privacy malware in advertising or malvertising reduces security. With our CPR Checkup managed computing subscription we enable adblocking and malware