Mobile Devices and Your Workforce: Reducing the Threats Created by "Lost" or "Stolen" Devices

Mobile Devices and Your Workforce: Reducing the Threats Created by "Lost" or "Stolen" Devices

A lost or stolen corporate device is a major threat to a company’s data security and privacy. It is critical to develop an IT strategy that protects sensitive organizational information even if this worst case scenario occurs.

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Outsourced IT in Nashville: A Guide for the Retail Industry

Outsourced IT in Nashville: A Guide for the Retail Industry

Retail industry technology is evolving at an extraordinary rate. More and more, retailers are turning to outsourced IT to maintain their competitive edge in the industry.

To the point: over the last 6 months, the internet has seen a rash of blackmail spam schemes. The most common of these involve emails suggesting that the sender, a hacker, has hijacked the recipient’s computer and recorded evidence of the recipient viewing pornography. The sender threatens to send that evidence to the recipient’s contact list—unless the recipient sends a Bitcoin payment to a provided address.

So, what should you do if you receive one of these emails? Read on to find out

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Outsourced IT in Nashville: A Guide for the Construction Industry

Outsourced IT in Nashville: A Guide for the Construction Industry

Outsourcing your IT services to Affinity Technology Partners is a good way to make sure you’ve got everything you need for the seamless and successful operation of your technology company.

To the point: over the last 6 months, the internet has seen a rash of blackmail spam schemes. The most common of these involve emails suggesting that the sender, a hacker, has hijacked the recipient’s computer and recorded evidence of the recipient viewing pornography. The sender threatens to send that evidence to the recipient’s contact list—unless the recipient sends a Bitcoin payment to a provided address.

So, what should you do if you receive one of these emails? Read on to find out

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The EU Data Protection Directive: How to Comply with this Law Protecting EU Consumers

The EU Data Protection Directive: How to Comply with this Law Protecting EU Consumers

The EU Data Protection Directive is a law implemented by the European Union to protect the privacy of EU citizens’ data. The highly professional tech consultants at Affinity Technology Partners are trained in helping businesses comply with this directive.

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Social Engineering: How Scammers are Using Low Tech Tools to Gain High Tech Access

Social Engineering: How Scammers are Using Low Tech Tools to Gain High Tech Access

A business’s data is its most important asset. To protect it, companies hire IT services providers to put up firewalls, encrypt passwords, maintain anti-virus software, backup data, and more. It takes the most advanced hacker to break through these barriers outright. However, there are other ways to gain access to your data that bypass these obstacles. Some scammers use human psychology to dig their way in. The technology these people use is low tech, but the strategy is effective. Businesses should be aware of this type of security threat as well and do everything possible to guard against it.

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Chatbots, Live Chat & "Meet with Me" Apps: the Growing Self-Service Side of Sales

Chatbots, Live Chat & "Meet with Me" Apps: the Growing Self-Service Side of Sales

Today, when we want to learn more about a company, browse for products, or find a place to eat, just about every single one of us with internet access starts with an online search. These search engines are powered by self-improving algorithms that make it easier to find exactly what we’re looking for. Many businesses understand this trend of using technology to get answers and have begun incorporating similar tools right on their homepage.

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Mac, Microsoft, Android: Selecting Your Platforms as They Become More Functional Across Devices

Mac, Microsoft, Android: Selecting Your Platforms as They Become More Functional Across Devices

In the not-so-distant past, technology companies such as Apple and Microsoft offered significantly different experiences for their consumers. These differences resulted in a schism, where people swore by one software over another almost religiously. While this debate still goes on today, it’s been greatly diminished for several reasons.

To help us carry this practice with us into our daily work managing, supporting, maintaining, and strategizing our client’s IT, our owners, Sean and Betsy Wright, decided to boil the essence of our mission and vision down into a single core values statement.

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Nightmare Scenarios: How Outsourced IT is Helping Owners Sleep at Night

Nightmare Scenarios: How Outsourced IT is Helping Owners Sleep at Night

It’s a paradox we all face on a daily basis, whether we realize it or not: introducing technology into our businesses’ workflows opens up vast opportunities—greater efficiency, remote working capabilities, seamless collaboration, actionable business data—while at the same time introducing new and terrifying risks not only to the security of our data but also the very viability of our businesses. For many business owners, knowing this makes it hard to sleep at night, or to fully enjoy a weekend off.

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Nashville Construction Engineers: Your Jobsite May Be Safe. What About Your Network?

Nashville Construction Engineers: Your Jobsite May Be Safe. What About Your Network?

While on a job, construction-specific IT services must enable access to plans and other data from a secure network. This fast-paced environment calls for immediate support to mitigate issues wherever and whenever they occur.

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