Avitus Technology Services, formerly Layer 3 Technology

The frightening reality is that you could be on your own during an active shooter situation. Which means you and your employees need to know what you should and should not do. The way to learn that is through active shooter training. The purpose of this blog is not to put a scare into your or your employees. No one wants to discuss this topic, but unfortunately it’s something that we need to talk about. More than that, it’s something that we need to face and act on. Why? Because the alternative is not worth thinking about.

To prevent employee turnover, companies need to anticipate it. To anticipate turnover, they need to collect employee turnover data.

A doom-and-gloom view of things isn’t appropriate. Technology is changing the industry, for sure, but it’s not exactly analogous of robots replacing humans on factory assembly lines.

HACKERS TRY TO find novel ways to circumvent or undermine data encryption schemes all the time. But at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Purdue University researcher Sze Yiu Chau has a warning for the security community about a different threat to encryption: Vulnerabilities that were discovered more than a decade ago still very much persist today.

WHEN YOU THINK about how hackers could break into your smartphone, you probably start with clicking a malicious link in a text, downloading a fraudulent app, or some other way you accidentally let them in. It turns out that's not necessarily sonot even on the iPhone, where simply receiving an iMessage could be enough to get yourself hacked.

Your company’s network security is the dike holding back the cybercrime flood. If there’s a crack anywhere in the dike (and no little Dutch boy to plug the hole with his finger), your entire network is at risk.

Here's your #NetworkSecurity checklist:

You can change payday legally, but you have to fulfill certain requirements.

Sure, business administration isn’t your company’s mission and no one wants to do accounting or payroll (unless you’re an accounting or payroll professional), but it’s still vital to your success. So, how do you make your back office run smoothly if you’re not an expert in business administration?

The U.S. tax code has gone through endless revisions over the years and will likely go through endless more. So how are you supposed to manage your business and also stay on top of so many revisions to the tax code?

Watch your accounts Capital One card holders.

You started your own business because you’re a doer. But that doesn’t mean it has to be you working those twelve-hour days when payroll comes around, fixing the glitch in the computer network, or coming up with a catchy Facebook post. In reality, taking on these important tasks yourself is costing you time and more importantly, money. We’re here to tell you there’s a better way.

The more unused, unloved accounts you've got hanging around, the more targets would-be hackers have got to aim at. Figure out what brings you joy and erase your tracks on the rest.