Voice over IP (VoIP) is becoming an increasingly popular means to deploy the phone infrastructure within the SMB space.  However, the move to VoIP presents the challenge of interfacing the new VoIP system with the ability to send and receive …

Backing up email is a crucial task, and is necessary to safeguard the valuable information stored in email. Yet how many organisations take a critical look at how and why they backup email? For organisations that want to run an …

Companies are building vast databases of information which need to be protected against hackers, viruses, natural disasters and other threats. In this post I talk about the biggest threat of them all: your trusted employees. Your employees have many reasons …

With billions of emails exchanged daily, it is no wonder that email makes such a significant portion of how organizations communicate. With so much valuable information stored in email, organizations turn to email storage software to manage and retrieve it. …

A competent technical manager knows that his company needs to adhere to email compliance laws and regulations. Compliance however, is not easy! There is literally an alphabet soup of laws and regulations – the SOX, HIPAA, GLB and others. In …

We have embraced social networking sites so much that they have become a part of our everyday life. For most of us, checking our Twitter account, reading emails and following our friends’ updates on Facebook have become a daily routine. …

If you have a small business you’re probably running a server with Small Business Server (SBS) for email, file sharing and collaboration. SBS is a good fit for small businesses as it provides a good platform for the IT of …

Every so often we are regaled with attention-grabbing headlines announcing the demise of the individual’s right to privacy or how Big Brother has a constant roving eye over us all, recording the minutiae of our very existence. We grumble because …

The decision to start blocking websites is not one to be made lightly, but it is one all companies face eventually. Users with unrestricted Internet access find themselves constantly battling malware infections and at risk of information leakage, while companies …

I came across an excellent story by Ars Technica on the Stuxnet malware. It’s well worth the read as it goes into detail on how the virus originated, how it was analyzed and how security researchers got to the bottom …