As a rule of thumb, it should not be a thumb drive By Chip Bates Reading this article about IRS employees whose data was breached by an insider who apparently plugged in a thumb drive into an employee’s PC and downloaded information on 20,000 employees. Well, that seems like pretty loose security protocols from a […]
Does it really make a difference whether or not you update your password? Are you really more secure after you change it? Well, maybe you are, until the next breach or security flaw gets exposed. How many of us have reached complete apathy when it comes to protecting personal information? It’s not like consumers are […]
Our company, ConverterTechnology, has been helping enterprises worldwide mitigate data risk for over 15 years. We started helping companies identify and remediate risk when doing a Microsoft Office and Windows migrations and have expanded into broader areas of data risk management. In the beginning our value proposition was simple and seemingly a no-brainer. If you […]
As a kid, it was fun watching the 3 Stooges jam fingers into each other’s eyes, but if you are still on Windows XP, you will be the one with a watery eye. The latest security flaw in Internet Explorer 6 and up, whereby bad actors could potentially gain access to vulnerable PC’s, is bad […]
By Chris Davies, Manager of Technical Services To quote the late great Douglas Adams, “Don’t Panic.” As the cover of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy clearly states, staying calm is essential. So now that the “end of life” deadline for Windows XP and Office 2003 has come and gone, it still seems that there […]
It’s like blaming a knife and fork for obesity By Shawn Allaway, CEO Companies need to view the epidemic of data breaches with a similar approach to controlling one’s weight. Unless there are systemic corporate “lifestyle” changes, the problem will continue to be a pervasive and costly nuisance to the economy. There are no quick […]
What happens when the horse has already left the barn and the barn door is still open? By Shawn Allaway, CEO Well, one of the insidious vulnerabilities exposed to date is the Heartbleed bug. They should have dubbed it the vampire bug because it sucks up 64KB of the exposed client’s memory which is more […]
If you are prone to procrastination then you can appreciate why April 2014 is a month that will make you a little cranky. If you have not done proper tax planning, you will wind up teary eyed with your hand shaking writing a fat check to the IRS. If your company has failed to properly […]
Well, Microsoft Access isn’t really evil, but like its other Office brethren (especially Excel) it is insidious how it spreads through the enterprise. However, it has become quite a valuable tool in building true intellectual property that drives business. Born out of need, forged in elegant simplicity and easily spread through file shares, Access databases […]
By Chris Davies, Manager of Technical Services In a recent article in ComputerWorld it was postulated that Microsoft risks ruin by ending support for Windows XP. The article opined that they are reckless to terminate support for the 13 year old operating system. If I followed that logic I am now ready to post my […]