Information security has been in the fore front of news outlets lately, major banks, retail stores, financial companies, and government agencies have become victim of cyber-criminal and cyber espionage. Security incidents are not new in the IT world, however having the spot light on few major events have made it look as if all of a sudden a new army of cyber criminals rose up to go after major corporations. As it turns out information security has been around as long as computers became mainstream, with the need to protect systems from hackers who broke into computers and servers to gain bragging right among their peers and to show that that it could be done. That utopian era is gone, now o
This what small business owners tell me when they are looking for a centralized location for employees to store\retrieve files. Chances are they do need a server with all its bells and whistles, however it’s been my experience, especially with businesses under 10 employees, that they just need a centralized file access location. It is very common for the non-technical person to think of a server simply as a file storage, thus using the term server but in really a server is a powerful tool for centralized network management and many other functions. As the small business grows and the demands for specialized software, audit trails, needs to know access, and other network services become relev
