eGuard Tech BLOG

Offsite backups have been touted in the past few years as the answer to everyone’s bad habit of not doing backups. Once signed up for an online service it’s easy to ‘set it and forget it;’ but too many business owners don’t know what they are buying and end up paying a lot more than [...]

The numbers are staggering: according to the 2006 Identity Fraud Report, identity theft cost consumers and businesses a whopping $56.6 billion dollars. Identity theft occurs when someone steals your name, Social Security number (SSN), bank account number, or credit card to open accounts, make purchases, or commit other fraudulent crimes. The Methods They Use To [...]

And One Simple, Inexpensive Solution That Will Prevent Them All From Doing Damage Is your computer plugged in? Do you use a power strip with a surge protector? If so, you are a heartbeat away from disaster and don’t even realize it. The same electricity you depend on to run your computer and network is [...]

MySpace Has Become A Hunting Ground For Criminals and Pedophiles Over the last few months there has been a lot of news coverage and controversy over a social network website called MySpace.com, and rightfully so. I decided to include a front page article about this in my newsletter to warn my clients of the dangers [...]

Courts have ruled that an employer’s monitoring of its employees’ e-mails and other computer related activities during work hours and/or on company-owned equipment, Internet, and e-mail accounts is not illegal. Companies typically monitor employees’ online usage for the following reasons: 1. To avoid claims based on sexual, racial, ethnic, and other forms of harassment. 2. [...]

When you’re making a list of things to be thankful for, computers and technology usually don’t make the list; as a matter of fact, they often get put on the “hate” list of things that frustrate us! However, I think it’s time someone gave credit where credit is due! Here are the top 5 reasons [...]

Computers rarely stop working overnight. In most cases, there are early warning signs that problems are brewing. Below are 10 surefire signs that you need to get a professional to investigate your network ASAP: 1. Your workstation or server starts running very slowly, freezes up, or crashes. 2. Your web browser has been changed to [...]

Thanks to a new software technology called, “virtualization” you can now save THOUSANDS of dollars on hardware upgrades while simultaneously (and drastically) improving your ability to recover after a disaster. Before virtualization, you could only run a single operating system and a single application on a server; but virtualization breaks that requirement by making it [...]

If you ever make purchases online, you must know how to quickly determine if the web site you are about to buy from is secure. A secure connection is an encrypted exchange of information between the web site you are visiting and the browser you are using. Encryption of data is simply a process of [...]

It’s a classic he-said, she-said case that ends up in court on a daily basis… Widget buyer Ms. Robinson testified that Mr. Smith, the Widgets Corp. sales manager, told her that if she put her order in immediately, the price would be discounted by 20 percent. Mr. Smith argued that that was not what he [...]