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Do You Allow Employees To Use Their Own Devices For Work?

The evolution of personal mobile devices and the rise of how necessary they are to business success these days are forcing many small business owners to make a choice – “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) vs. “Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled” (COPE). The Typical Solution – BYOD. According to the CDW

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9 Steps To Protect Your Bank Account

Credit card fraud and bank theft continues to be a huge problem.  Unfortunately, in the world we live in, this is most likely the norm going forward and not just a blip on the radar. So, how can you stay protected online? While there is no way to absolutely, positively,

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Dangerous Assumptions about Bank Security

Here’s a shocker to most business owners: Your bank often can NOT reclaim money stolen from your bank account due to fraud or cyber-crime. That means if money gets drafted from your business bank account from a hacker, phishing attack, identity theft or by any other means, you have little

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Tips Before Moving to the Cloud

Cloud computing is all the rage these days, and while some companies are moving their whole IT infrastructure to the cloud, many others are choosing to streamline their businesses by moving individual business applications. If you are considering moving any of your company’s software applications “to the cloud,” make sure

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Do NOT Send Money!

We’ve received a few calls this week from concerned customers asking whether they need to send iDNS money to renew their domain name registration.  Then we received one for one of our domains today as well.  The answer is emphatically, “NO!”. We at iSTAM consider this a scam for a

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Am I protected against the latest Malware threats?

One of our Complete Managed Services customers recently asked us what protections they had against the recent outbreaks of ransom-ware and malware attacks.  While no solution or service can guarantee complete protection, I had a strong sense of satisfaction as I wrote the response trying to include everything we were

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Wondering what the life saver is for?

In case you were wondering what the orange and white life preserver is for, we’ve rolled out a new version of our iSAFE security software which includes the new iSAFE Support icon.  When you mouse over the icon it should say, “iSAFE Support”. When you left click on the icon

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Why is my computer so slow? (series)

Certainly one of the most common questions we hear is, “Why is my computer so slow?”  While the answer is almost impossible to affirm without investigation, there are some things that will slow every computer down over time, and some things you can do about it. Hardware Failure I’ll start

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The Ransomware Epidemic

In case you haven’t heard, there is a new breed of virus going around in massive proportions.  A whole new wave of viruses are being distributed for the sole purpose of getting your money.  And for the first time in history there is an anonymous, digital currency that is making

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