Strategies For Defending Against Malware

At one time or another, almost everyone has been infected with Malware or Viruses. The telltale signs are a slower responding PC, Popups, Blue Screen, Browser home page is odd or unknown hard drive activity. And any PC on a network has the potential risk of sharing that Malware.  So what are the best strategies to…

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Backup Best Practices

When reviewing your backup plan, and more specifically your recovery plan, one needs to look at and evaluate your systems resiliency along with your backup. Resiliency refers to redundancy built into your systems. It could be in the form of redundant power supplies, UPS Systems, RAID (for protection in the event of a drive failure),…

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Creating a Runbook

Runbooks – Do I really need one? The short answer is absolutely. The age old adage – plan your work and work your plan applies to IT and especially in the creation/use of a runbook. When there is an event, be it a server, application or site that goes down and the various business departments…

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