Alliance IT Blog
Practical Tips For Creating Strong Passwords
Choosing strong passwords, and managing them well, is so critical to your business security. It could be the difference between keeping your identity safe and landing your information in hackers' hands.
Tech Terms: What Is Two Step Authentication?
Two-step authentication is one of the best ways to prevent unauthorized access to your accounts, even if somebody manages to steal your password.
Three Important Questions to Ask Your Cloud Provider
The cloud has revolutionized the way that businesses approach computing. Yet, you should know that not all clouds are the same, and you can’t treat them as such. Here are 3 important questions that you need to ask your cloud service provider.
How to Ensure That You Are PCI Compliant
Validating compliance is a process of “proving” that your business meets PCI standards. Many business owners are unsure of how to become PCI compliant, but often feel too intimidated to start.
The Different Cloud Computing Options Explained
When it comes to business IT solutions, cloud computing is unquestionably the way forward for many companies.
4 Practical Small Business Uses For Microsoft OneDrive
For organizations running Office 365, OneDrive for Business is becoming the focal point for end users and cloud IT admins alike. It’s helping end users collaborate and giving admins additional capabilities to manage their tenant’s influx of data.
3 Things You Can Do Now To Speed Up Data Recovery After a Breach
Now that companies increasingly move toward paperless systems, loss of data can make reconstruction impossible when access to digital records is no longer possible.
The Section 179 Tax Deduction
We see technology as a way to make life simpler, yet when your tech starts to stop working, it steadily develops new issues and ultimately costs you more money in downtime and lost productivity than it would cost to acquire new devices.
Data Security – 3 Crucial Pieces of HIPAA Compliance
If your work requires you to store medical data, you should be aware of how important your data security is, as a problem could potentially put your business at risk of closing up shop permanently.
Your Human Firewall: Why Employee Education Is Vital To Your Business
When most people think about IT security, they think about all of the hardware and software that protects the data from outside eyes. In actuality, the greatest access point to your company data is often overlooked: the employees of the company.
3 Ways Managed IT Service Providers Minimize Downtime For SMB’S
When you outsource the monitoring and maintenance of your IT to a managed services provider, you can trust that any issues with your systems will be detected before they cause downtime for your employees.
Making The Most of Your Office 365
Before making the move to Office 365, every organization needs to carefully evaluate what’s involved for a successful deployment. Here are some ways to make the most of your Office 365.