Takeaway: Methods for preventing internal security breaches that work in a small company environment generally don’t scale well as the organization gets larger. Here’s how you develop a scalable strategy for preventing breaches as your company grows.

Many companies focus their security strategies on keeping outsiders from getting into the network. Yet a large percentage of serious security breaches come from within. Some of these are deliberate and others are unintentional, but either way they can put your network and the data on it at risk and result in lost …

I found a new tool called Hitman Pro 2.  Basically you download the application and install it.  The application then downloads 6 top rates spyware prevention/cleaning apps and installs them.  Himat then updates them and executes them all without user intervention.  You can spend 5 minutes downing and installing the Hitman and let it work for the next 2 hours cleaning up your PC.  Pretty cool!
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If you’re like me, you probably have thousands of digital photos and documents that you want to backup or copy to external media. In my case, I copy everything to an external 160GB XIMETA NetDisk for safe keeping. I have used the free version of Allway Sync in the past, and I’ve had very good results. However, we recently released a handy tool for Windows XP called SyncToy, and based on my few days of experience, it appears to do everything I need. Here are a few of its features:

Provides …

We are looking to become a Microsoft Partner.  If you are a small outfit you may want to look into partnering with Microsoft.  A couple of benefits are you can say you are a Microsoft Partner and to some customers that may be valuable.  Also you can obtain a limited number of licenses for software like Exchange 2003, Windows server 2003, and Office 2003.  The discount is well worth the effort to gain partner status.
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The SpectraLogic T50 that I mentioned a while ago will ship tomorrow.  We will probably spend the next month configuring and testing our backup solution before I will say we are in production.  Many times companies put backups on the back burner, Don’t!!  Even big companies lose data by accident, check out Google latest blunder.
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We will be internally developing a new ticketing system later this year.  I have been doing to preliminary research in regards to other ticketing systems.  Basically I am looking for ideas that others have put together so I can add those ideas to my brainstorming sessions and hopefully develop into requirements.  So far PerlDesk has been on the top of my short list. 

I never knew Google had an SMS service, but recently was shown the site by my CFO.  We spend a great deal of money on 411 calls from our cell phones.  He offered the solution that we can SMS Google for 411 listings, weather, stocks, and driving directions.  It’s not a perfect service, but I was highly impressed with the features.  Go check it out.
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Are you looking for a fairly simple way to inventory your LAN machines.  I have been testing an open source package for about 2 months now and it works wonderful for my needs.  Check out OCS Inventory.  Leave comments if you need help but the setup and use is pretty straight forward.

Our company is looking to move cell phone providers.  Currently we are using T-Mobile and we are looking at either Cingular or Verizon.  While cost is our CFOs first priority, my top priority can not be price.  I need functionality and quality of service.  I manager people in operations and if I need to contact someone, I need their phone to work.
As far as functionality goes that primarily depends on the phone.  Currently we are using a mix of basic cell phones and The Treo (both 600 and 650).  I …

I have upgraded the Wordpress load for this site to version 2.0.2.  By the way I am posting this from my test laptop loaded with Windows Vista Beta.  I will update you on my thoughts after I have a chance to play with it for a while.
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