Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Monday, 30 July 2018
Phishing problems: 3.2M emails blocked in a month | Salted Hash Ep 37
New MacBook Pros at work? Here's how to manage them right
Earlier this month, Apple unveiled its newest generation of MacBook Pros; all feature a significant bump in performance, a redesigned butterfly keyboard, the arrival of "Hey Siri" commands and a second generation of Apple's T-series chips. The T2 chip works to improve performance and includes a Secure Enclave for encryption operations to secure the laptops and power Apple's TouchID as well as the Touch Bar. (The T2 chip is already in Apple's iMac Pro.)
One of the big narratives around the new MacBook Pro - and the T2 chip, in particular - is that they are true professional-level machines with IT-friendly security capabilities that help protect everything from the SSD storage to the start-up process to the apps being used. (This last item is important since users can install apps from outside of the Mac App Store, which is curated by Apple.)
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(Insider Story)Sunday, 29 July 2018
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Wednesday, 25 July 2018
How to pick the best project management methodology for success
The risks associated with global Internationalized Domain Names | Salted Hash Ep 36
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Review: 6 data recovery tools for USB flash drives and more
As USB thumb drives and memory cards have grown larger and cheaper over the years, it's become easier to trust more data to them. Cloud storage services notwithstanding, flash drives have remained a common way to store data and transport files from one computer to another — and it's all too easy to accidentally erase data from one or have it hiccup on you.
That’s where file recovery tools come in; they restore deleted files from hard drives and other storage devices. For this roundup, we tested how effectively six tools recover data from USB flash drives.
Most data recovery tools work similarly: Through their interfaces, you select the storage device (flash drive, hard drive, SSD, memory card) from which your files went missing. Then you pick another storage device (such as your computer’s own hard drive or SSD) where the recovery tool will save your recovered files to.
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(Insider Story)Monday, 23 July 2018
5 ways to make Windows 10 act like Windows 7
One of the things I typically spend time doing after holidays and birthdays is helping family members with new PCs, which invariably these days come with Windows 10. I notice one thing in common across all of these little projects: All of the recipients ask me how to make Windows 10 look like the Windows they’re used to — usually Windows 7, or in some cases, Windows 8.1. Things like putting the Start menu back, bringing back functional search, fixing high-DPI display issues, removing Cortana, and so on.
None of these family members really wants to rip and replace Windows 10 with a previous version of the OS, but they want Windows 10 to have the interface to which they are accustomed. “Make it look like it did before!” is a familiar cry in the workplace as well, as more and more enterprises make the move to Windows 10.
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(Insider Story)Don't ignore application security | Salted Hash Ep 35
Saturday, 21 July 2018
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Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Mingis on Tech: The blockchain evolution, from services...to smartphones
What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
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Friday, 13 July 2018
Chat happens: Your guide to 11 group-chat services
Everyone knows the secret to success — personal and business alike — is good communication. But in what form? If you're trying to communicate with a group in real time, you're no doubt familiar with the old standby: conference calls. You know: those mind-numbing phone meetings in which talkers overlap, voice quality is terrible, half the people aren't paying attention and somebody's dog barks intermittently throughout the call.
But what's the alternative? Consider an old (very old) standby: instant messaging. Except nobody calls it that anymore; now it's group chat. These virtual meeting rooms are focused on text-based communication — and often vastly preferable to conference calls.
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(Insider Story)Thursday, 12 July 2018
Wednesday, 11 July 2018
7 tools to supplement (or supplant) PowerPoint
It can be a challenge to create presentations that are relevant and engaging and make your customer want to say, “Yes, yes, yes!”
For years, Microsoft PowerPoint has been the go-to presentation tool — even though PowerPoint presentations can be tedious, with text of all one size and bullet points listed smack in the center of the screen. The tool has evolved, in an attempt to ditch its dull reputation, but as it has become more feature-rich, with more design templates and collaborative features, it has been rendered less intuitive. While it’s fair to say you can wow your audience with a PowerPoint presentation today, for most people the learning curve is steep enough to make them reluctantly stick with the basics.
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(Insider Story)Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Monday, 9 July 2018
IT buyer's guide to business projectors
When it comes to effectively communicating with potential customers, training employees or collaborating on your company’s next-gen gadget design, a good projector setup can help you put your best business foot forward. With the ability to send anything from a computer, phone or tablet across the room and onto a screen, projectors have the power to put your company in the best possible light.
The good news is that there is an extraordinary variety of projectors available today that can put a sharp and bright image onto a screen to get your company's message across. From miniature marvels not much bigger than a smartphone to 90-pound monsters that can light up an auditorium's screen, there's a business projector for every purpose and budget.
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(Insider Story)Sunday, 8 July 2018
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Tuesday, 3 July 2018
The difference between red team engagements and vulnerability assessments | Salted Hash Ep 34
Monday, 2 July 2018
How AI will change enterprise mobility
Your smartphone is about to get smarter, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). And that has huge implications for enterprise support for mobility.
Enterprise mobility has long promised to allow workers to be productive wherever they are, to speed up business processes and to improve accuracy and efficiency by putting the most up-to-date data in the hands of workers in the field, says Kevin Burden, vice president of mobility research and data strategy at 451 Research. The addition of AI will help deliver on those promises, he says.
The ways it will do that are multifaceted, with the effects seen in the areas of device management, user experience, security, applications and the very devices themselves. At the same time, new concerns about privacy are sure to arise as AI and ML become ever more efficient at gathering data points.
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