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The Cloud Adoption Movement: It’s already here – Is your business part of it?

Posted by Rick Mark on Mar 2, 2015

The Cloud Adoption Movement: It’s already here – Is your business part of it? First post in a new series about the advantages, risks and trends about moving your technology to the Cloud By SingerLewak’s Business Risk and Technology Services team member, Rick Mark...

2015 Planning: BCP – Phase 6 – Implement and Test!

Posted by Rick Mark on Dec 15, 2014

Now a big sigh of relief! You should be proud of your accomplishments! Phase 6 is a celebration of 5 Phases of completion, 100’s of hours of time (likely), good money spent to protect your company and resume business when disaster strikes, and ultimately, be there for your...

2015 Planning: BCP – Phase 5 – Implement and Test!

Posted by Rick Mark on Dec 15, 2014

Well, we’re now shoulder deep in planning and strategies after 4, likely very eye opening, phases. It’s time to practice what we’ve preached and worked so very hard to accomplish to this point. To recap we’ve: Figured out what a disaster means to the company and...

2015 Planning: BCP – Phase 4 – It’s DRAFT time!

Posted by Rick Mark on Dec 15, 2014

Well now we’re rolling here. You’ve spent the time figuring out what a disaster is for you and your company, what parts of your company will be affected and how and by which events, and you’ve now planned out and analyzed the information and come up with solutions and...

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The Cloud Adoption Movement: It’s already here – Is your business part of it?

Posted by Rick Mark on Mar 2, 2015

The Cloud Adoption Movement: It’s already here – Is your business part of it? First post in a new series about the advantages, risks and trends about moving your technology to the...

Cloud Security – an oxymoron or matter of policy?

Posted by Rick Mark on Jun 6, 2013

We all know what an oxymoron is, adopted phrases that seem to describe something but use two diametrically opposed words to convey them, e.g., A Fine Mess, A Little Big, A New...

The Cloud Adoption Movement: It’s already here – Is your business part of it?

Posted by Rick Mark on Mar 2, 2015

The Cloud Adoption Movement: It’s already here – Is your business part of it? First post in a new series about the advantages, risks and trends about moving your technology to the...

Malvertisements….Is it ever possible to avoid Malware?

Posted by Rick Mark on Dec 5, 2012

We all do our best to avoid advertisements in general, but with the evolution in online advertising, so comes the various ways hackers can use them to exploit our computers and the...

Hark! Who goes there? Are your computers secure at the most basic level?

Hark! Who goes there? Are your computers secure at the most basic level? With 6.5 million passwords stolen from LinkedIn and another 1.5 million passwords stolen shortly after from E-Harmony, possibly by the same hacker, password security is at the front of the minds of all computer users. Since users of thoseservices had to change passwords, it would be a...

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WHY IT’S OK IF AN ELEPHANT SITS ON MY LAPTOP By Rick Mark | Service Area Manager Are you ‘Clouded’ by today’s virtual technology? If you are, then dropping your laptop in a pool of water, out of a moving car, or even if it was stolen, wouldn’t really matter would it? Of course not! If you have embraced cloud computing, then your...

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Go15 Pike’s Peak – Advanced Metal Lubricity Technology® – The hottest automotive technology

So most of you know me as a tech-geek-extraordinair…few of you know me as an automotive enthusiast, customization and performance consultant and developer…and lover too! Here’s some GREAT tech that helps the bottom line in a way you may have never thought of. If you love your car, deal with manufacturing and distribution trucking and more...

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Spotlight on your bank account…yes, YOUR bank account There’s a race occurring daily and it’s as competitive as any competition imaginable. What’s at stake you ask? Your bank account. Cybercriminals are hard at work, chipping away at any form of protection you or your bank can throw at them. Its all in the numbers..The bad guys get as many attempts as they want...

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WHERE DOES MY YOUTUBE VIDEO COME FROM? If you haven’t seen this video yet, you need to, just as almost 15 million others have. That’s right, this single video has been viewed almost 15 million times since June 2006 around the entire globe. If you think that’s impressive, today, YouTube serves more than 3 billion views per day across its vast...

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