The other day my credit card company’s fraud unit called the house.  They asked if I had made purchases at a Wal-Mart in Houston, Texas.   I had not.    My credit card was in my pocket.  I haven’t been to Houston since the 1980s.   Someplace locally that I had visited had a data breach.

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article on the reality that you may be the biggest security risk to your organization.   CSI can help you assess the overall security situation of your company.  If you require assistance, please contact us. You can read the entire article here:  https://tiny.

For serious breaches you should always seek guidance from law enforcement and computer professionals and perhaps your legal counsel on what your next moves should be.   When CSI is asked to assist in these incidents, we are concerned about shutting down the breach and understanding who the bad guys are so the authorities can apprehend […]

CSI offers some very affordable solutions for organizations of all sizes to protect against web surfing threats. Contact us if you’d like to talk about what solutions are available to meet your needs.   This article outlines the threat and issues small business face keeping themselves safe from web based threats: https://tiny.

As people and companies put more and more data into “the cloud” most people do not realize that due to the  Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 search warrants are not required in many on-line investigations.  If you stored your data on a server in your office, the police would have a dramatically higher legal […]

https://blogs.computerworld.com/19074/five_reasons_companies_are_going_social_at_light_speed

Interviewing is always a delicate topic.   There are things you cannot legally ask.  However, in the age of Facebook and Twitter, people freely post personal information disclosing information that an employer could never ask about.    In fact former Google CEO Eric Schmidt advised young people to change their name to escape the on-line shame of […]

Backing up your data is such a critical issue.  Your data is the life of your business.   FEMA estimates that 40-60% of businesses never re-open after a data disaster.  You have to take the issue of backing up your data as seriously as you do the physical security of your business.

With the push for electronic medical records (EMR), one of the concerns is whether patient’s medical records confidentiality will appear on-line like other “WikiLeaks” data breaches we’ve all heard about. 

This Networkworld article re-states from Microsoft what I stated in my “Steps you can take to improve the security and worker productivity on your computers and servers” post.   Most infections are due to lax updating and patching standards rather than previously unknown viruses preying upon your computers.