What is a firewall? Since firewalls have been in the news recently, this is a question you may be asking. While your data lies on a server somewhere up in the cloud, what exactly is protecting it from ruthless marauders? What is this great beacon of security? Well, you can think of a firewall as …
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Presidential candidates are talking about it. It’s all over the news. So you may be asking yourself, what is encryption? To understand encryption you must first think about how we communicate. In its most basic human form communication is done face-to-face through some kind of spoken or unspoken language. Two parties interact and data is …
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Tis the season for snow storms, downpours and power outages. If these acts of Mother Nature have you in full on panic mode, it’s best to protect yourself by backing up all your valuable data NOW. So how do you proceed? Well, let’s start with the basics. What is a storage device? It’s a piece …
How secure is my password? These days, without a strong password you are seriously at risk of exposing vital information to nefarious script kiddies, so you may be asking, “How secure is my password?” The old “abc123” just won’t cut it! In fact, it’s no secret that the number of times you’ve lost that password …