Does your company have a Dropbox problem?
Storing data in the cloud is the greatest thing to come along since sliced bread! Allowing your company to have access to documents and company data from virtually anywhere on the planet has made...
View ArticleFax 3.0: This is Not Your Father’s Facsimile Machine
Some of my younger friends may not have ever encountered an old-fashioned fax machine, but I remember them well. There was a time when it seemed nothing short of a miracle to feed a document into it...
View ArticleGFI MailEssentials® Online Solves the Postini™ Problem
Google sounded the death knell of Postini when it started releasing similar features natively within Google Apps. Now Google has announced the end of Postini. This has presented a very real problem for...
View ArticleGFI FAXmaker: Faxing Efficiency Through Automation
While faxing may be viewed as legacy technology, it’s far from that. Faxing has moved on along with the rest of the world to become a fast, efficient method of communication. In many countries, it is...
View ArticleHow to Protect Your Twitter Account from Targeted Phishing Attacks
The Syrian Electronic Army, a hacking collective which seems to be pro-Syrian government, has been on a Twitter hacking roll lately. They’ve managed to compromise the accounts of many major news...
View ArticleWhy Cloud-based IT Management Is “It” for IT
The big trend in IT from the do-it-yourself business owner to the enterprise is cloud-based IT management. It’s not just because “the cloud” is the big buzzword and no one wants to be left behind. It’s...
View ArticleEmail Archiving Doesn’t Have to be a DIY Project
The “do it yourself” craze is big, and there’s a good reason for that. You can learn a lot, save money, and ensure that things get done your way. But there’s a down side, as well. The success (or not)...
View ArticleResults Show GFI Cloud™ Can Make an IT Department More Proactive
IT management has changed. Long gone are the days when a computer problem resulted in the user sitting impatiently waiting for a “techie” to attend and fix it. Remote support tools have been used to...
View ArticleThe GFI Cloud Survey: An Insight into Modern IT Management
IT departments are moving away from using individual software tools, to carry out their day-to-day operations, and towards service-based cloud products, according to an internal GFI survey. The results...
View ArticlePorn in Parliament – Also in Your Office?
It is not the first time that online pornography has stirred controversy in the UK. The recent government’s decision to automatically opt-in home users to online adult websites was quite controversial...
View ArticleSecurity in a Surveillance Society
Written by: Debra Littlejohn Shinder Over the past weeks, the news has been full of reports claiming that various government agencies, such as the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and U.K. GCHQ have...
View ArticleCloud-based Security: Rapid Early Adoption Means Widespread Use
Written by Jackie Wake Sitting on the beach you glance over at your laptop and notice that a few workstations have just signed on. Its business as usual back at the office and your employees will be...
View ArticleGFI Cloud™ Survey Shows Customers Are Getting More for Less
By: Jackie Wake The IT network is secure, costs are down, end user service has improved and businesses are saving more IT time! Is that possible? The answer is a resounding yes. According to our latest...
View ArticlePatching and antivirus tips every sys admin should know
Jenny Duncan on March 19, 2014 When you started out in IT, did you really want to spend all your life applying patches to PCs and checking if the antivirus product installed is up to date and working...
View ArticleGFI Cloud user interview: Michael Belisle, IT Manager at Fisher and Sons
Michael Belisle, IT manager at Fisher & Sons, in Burlington, WA, explains how GFI Cloud helps ease the load of IT management and make his life easier as a one-man IT team. He is interviewed by...
View ArticleGFI Cloud: A study of time savings
Working in IT administration is a stressful endeavor. Granted, there’s no comparison with brain surgery or air traffic control; but it is a field that few people understand from the outside looking in....
View ArticleIT admins, what are your greatest challenges?
“Not enough hours in the day!” – is the cry from IT admins in a recent GFI Cloud survey about their greatest day-to-day challenges, and these are common across the board, regardless of geography or...
View ArticleWindows XP – where have all the bad guys gone?
April 8, 2014 has come and gone and you may be wondering what all the fuss was about. After all, the bad guys haven’t come out of hiding, wreaking havoc on those who still have instances of Windows XP...
View ArticleA tale of two security approaches – and why you need both
Once upon a time, attacks on computers and networks were relatively simple. Our primary worry was viruses and their variants – worms, Trojans, rootkits. Their authors set out with malicious intent, to...
View ArticleGFI Cloud Explained as Fast as Possible
Over the last several years GFI has been moving some of the functionality of their most popular products to the cloud. As of today there are currently 6 different subscription based services that can...
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