In the cat-and-mouse world of ransomware and cybersecurity, with businesses and governments needing to place two steps between them and cybercriminals, comes a new obstacle – Ransomware-as-a-Service. Dharma, a cybercriminal firm, provides, “one of the most popular offerings around, saying [...]
How do you know your most important functions of your network are working? How do you manage technical people whose work you don’t fully understand? This week I have seven simple questions to ask and I provide you some tips on what answers you should expect.
Backup and Disaster Recovery is one of the most important functions in Information Technology management to assure the future viability of your firm. But backup and DR is a function you don’t really know is working until you really need it and that is not the time to find out it is not working as planned. My recommendation is that you bring this topic up in your next meeting with your IT team. Here are the questions I suggest you ask:
1. How is our backup system running? (Let your IT person talk. Be patient and don’t interrupt. Let them tell you all they can.)
2. Are we getting any error messages from the backups? (Error messages are not....
“94% of the surveyed hospital CFOs self-identified as “struggling”, report that delayed or failed implementations in other IT systems, particularly EHR, have drastically impacted the organization’s financial position.”
That is what is says in the third sentence of a fascinating press release I just read from healthcare market research firm Black Book Market Research. The press release goes on to cite a number of other statistics from their research including stats that many healthcare CFOs are expecting to lose their jobs by 2016 and that there will be a trend to start hiring CEOs from outside healthcare.
I have witnessed some of the reasons for the IT troubles at healthcare companies:
· Healthcare companies on the whole have been laggards in adoption of fresh information technologies.
· IT personnel at most healthcare organizations themselves are behind the curve on...
Thank you so much for all your support in 2014. We are already planning for 2015. Many of you may have already gotten calls from me as I contact you to get feedback on a set of 10 questions I [...]
We wrote to you three weeks ago to remind you of your $25,000 for tax deduction and bonus depreciation on certain IT and other assets. We have a news flash, the senate just passed a bill to raise that accelerated [...]
Under Section 179, your business is eligible to deduct up to $25,000 worth of equipment as long as it is purchased and operational by December 31, 2014.Phones, computers, software, office equipment and office furniture qualify for this deduction. If you [...]
I am surprised how many people are still calling with CryptoLocker problems. I have gotten three calls in the past two days from people who have had infected/encrypted Cryptolocker files for as long as three months and they are just now dealing with the issue. At this point in time I am not even sure paying the ransom will work for victims as the CryptoLocker network was taken down a couple of months ago by international law enforcement and with CryptoWall users only have 30 days to comply with the ransom demands.
So what options do you have if you are like these recent callers?
Over the years we have seen many new clients come to Alvaka Networks feeling like they are hostages to Information Technology. These people feel this way for many different reasons. Most often the person feeling this way is the CFO, Controller, CEO, COO, IT manager or an IT technician for the most part in that order in terms of frequency.
Why do they feel that way?
It is usually because their systems were:
1. Poorly designed
2. They don’t work right
3. The system is insecure
4. No one knows what the last guy...
It's hard to tell fact from fiction in technology advertisements, says technology and security consultant Kevin McDonald. These irresponsible claims about a product's compliance or security capabilities can have ethical and legal consequences. …I can't tell you how many times [...]
Here is a controversial article written recently by Kevin McDonald for TechTarget. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under federal law, the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule extends to a class of business entities (i.e., health plans, health care clearinghouses and [...]
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