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Security Policies

Posted: October 11th, 2012 | Author: | No Comments »

According to one survey, the biggest threat is careless employees who don’t follow security policies. Unfortunately, not all employees are making the necessary changes. What’s more, many organizations have no ability to prevent a bad employee from doing something bad. All they can do is watch him or her. For a company, bad behavior is bad business. After a while, the bad employee must be fired. Some companies invest time and resources to help their employees avoid bad acts. These are effective in deterring employees from trying to steal information. Unfortunately, some companies only focus on meeting sales targets. In this case, it’s much harder for a company to hold an employee accountable for his or her bad behavior.

 

9 policies and procedures you need to know about if you're starting a new security program | CSO Online

Good management can prevent the bad behavior, but usually the problem is not enough management, rather a lack of it. As with companies, some people have more control than others, and are able to cause the most harm. If you feel you are becoming a target of these types of crimes, you might want to consider a security consultant’s opinion. Security consultants are trained to understand security threats and to deal with them before they escalate into attacks. A security consultant will assist you to assess and strengthen your security posture. This will help you create well-defined procedures to ensure your organizations are protected from future security threats. You should also consider the employment and credentials of your employees and all the security measures you have in place. Workplace, information security and law enforcement agencies are interested in all companies or individuals who are recruiting for jobs. If you are involved in a project that requires your security, consider asking for the services of a qualified consultant to help you with those tasks. For example, the use of firewalls, proper information storage and distribution, and antivirus software can only help you protect your projects from security threats.

What will I need in order to secure my applications and networks? In order to protect your network and applications you will need three items: an anti-virus software, a remote access firewall, VPNs and IPS (learn more at this helpful site). Firewalls, VPNs and IPS are all security features that help protect you from attackers. Here are some examples of security applications you should have installed: firewall This is the server that routes incoming connections to the devices.  firewall This is the server that keeps out malicious traffic Internet Firewall: This enables you to determine whether a connection should be allowed or denied. If the traffic is allowed you will be allowed to access the resource. The server enables your devices to communicate with the internet. There is only one IP address for a physical connection and therefore the access firewall must be assigned to one unique IP address. Remote Access: This application allows your desktop and other computer to communicate with the firewall, VPN and ISP. It is ideal for workstations that do not have an Ethernet port. It allows you to connect to the firewall and also allow applications and media to access your computer. You will need a secure connection, e.g., managed wifi, to ensure that network is secure. Check out sites like https://www.eatelbusiness.com/managed-wifi/ to learn more. Security Certificate: It provides an authentication service for authentication of your users and your apps. To help you with all of these security features, you can hire managed IT services for your business. Get more Info here.

Cloudflare

Posted: October 2nd, 2012 | Author: | No Comments »

Allowing your site to be viewed by the public is a great way to generate business and make more money. There are also opportunities to earn lots of extra cash from advertising with your website.

Web hosting is also an important business tool for online marketing agencies and websites themselves. Without a reliable host who will provide a service to your business, you will not be able to produce a website without fear of something going wrong.

If you are using the simple image hosting service by cloudflare, your website will automatically start loading faster and also have a better chance of being viewed by potential customers.

How does a website look like?

It is essential that you do research about the visual styles that your users will want to use, and that you allow these styles to be available when they are needed.

Look at your website’s style guide to see if there are any styles or themes that you need to enable. If you are doing a dynamic or SEO oriented website, you may not want to rely on your style guide to provide your website with the visual cues needed.

Where are my images?

It is possible to have two images on a website, and they may be hosted on different locations. If you decide to load both images on the same page, you could run into problems if you had linked to images on two different pages in your site. If both images include an image element, you would need to use a server-side photo element on both pages. For server-based data, you can use a dedicated server for your site. You can check out this site for more details.

If you use images on your website but no link back to them, consider providing an additional image element for linking to the image if the page is served directly.

For dynamic and SEO friendly images, consider displaying both the image and its image tag on the same page.

For galleries, it is best practice to display at least one image that is relevant to the page being displayed. This will prevent accidental impressions.

Not all websites show images. You can add links back to the images if you want to show the links before showing the images.

Have questions?

Our lead developer, Spencer Campbell, answers the most common questions our clients have about web hosting. He’ll make sure to suggest the best wordpress hosting company for you.

There are a number of people who understand web hosting from a practical and technical standpoint. For example, many small businesses pay our company for custom hosting without any design or coding skills. The problem with this is that these folks may not always know how to approach a site design and where the design may be unnecessarily complex. Experts also say to invest in a dedicated database for your website so you can store your data there. You can check it out here.

So, Spencer has spent the past couple of years learning how to approach projects from the web design and development perspective, and in this article, we will show you how to do so.


Moving The Blog!

Posted: July 21st, 2012 | Author: | No Comments »


I’ve moved my blog over to Tumblr. Check it out!

The reason why, is that I feel that its going to be easier for me to post there rather than here. I had some rough nights trying to make this work but I just feel is too complicated for me. The only thing that helped me sleep at nights were my weighted blankets uk, because of the pressure it applied on my body I was able to sleep. I´ve read a few articles explaining that this blankets improve the quality of your sleep by managing the symptoms of insomnia as a result of anxiety, stress or depression.

So, now you know where to find me and how to get a better sleep at nights!


Google’s Halloween Doodle

Posted: October 31st, 2010 | Author: | No Comments »


Looks like today’s Google logo “Happy Halloween featuring Scooby Doo!” is the first time they’ve used a carousel to paginate. Fittingly, it’s like flipping through a Sunday morning comic strip and brings back some great memories from when I used to watch Scooby Doo every weekend which always ended with “…and I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!” From a customized game of Pac-Man to an embedded YouTube video for John Lennon’s birthday, Google has been creating more and more innovative “Doodles.” Check out the entire doodle collection.


YouTube’s New Embedded Player Permalink

Posted: October 21st, 2010 | Author: | 7 Comments »


YouTube has started rolling out a subtle new feature in embedded video players. At anytime you push pause, you’ll see a new arrow icon that, when clicked, will open the deep-link for the YouTube page the video lives on in a new window or tab. Because it’s the same size as the play button, it might take away from the prominent call-to-action to resume playback. So far, I’ve only seen it on the newer player UI, and is most likely not planned to be implemented in the older players, but it’s definitely a great feature.