Insight From Innovation

In this issue:

• Leaders with Vision Show the Way
• The Next Best Thing to Being There
• Get Tunnel Vision with a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Password Headaches
• The Bigger the Better

Since the number of passwords has magnified exponentially, the problem of keeping track of them has also increased, causing nothing but eyestrain and headaches!

Well, we have a solution that goes far beyond taking two aspirins and an afternoon nap—an automated, cloud-based password manager that can be used by all your staff working onsite or remotely.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a secondary form of authentication that helps make all your accounts more secure.  MFA translates to two or more forms of validating that you are who you say you are.  It’s commonly used in the form of a 6-digit verification code in an MFA application like Google Duo.

Since the days of early astronomy man has been looking for ways to view distant objects more clearly. This desire is what drove Hans Lippershey to assemble what is generally accepted as the first set of binoculars back in 1608.

If only there were a similar device that would allow us to clearly see what challenges we might face when moving our data to the cloud.

I was unable to find on Google when someone first remote controlled a PC, but I’m guessing it was invented by some poor IT person who didn’t want to get up in the middle of the night to see what was going on with his or her server or PC. But thank goodness someone figured it out.

Insight From Innovation

In this issue:

• Working Remotely: Necessity Was the Mother of Invention
• Taking a Look at Cloud Challenges
• Top 3 Things that Need MFA
• Transform: PC to TV
• See the World Through New Lenses

It’s not always easy to see all the things your IT company is doing for you. When everything is going smoothly and you are not experiencing any computer issues at all, you might assume your IT company isn’t really doing anything for you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Dark Web monitoring is a service that provides you with vision into sensitive data that might be lurking around on the web. The “Dark Web” is an unofficial network of information that contains a variety of personal information and security credentials that are then resold to cyber criminals.

Nothing on the internet is private. Communications, pictures, videos—they’re all susceptible to prying eyes and have the potential to be misused. Here are the biggest privacy threats you face online today:

Webcam Access – While it’s rare, there are known exploits that allow others to access your webcam (such as malicious software or software security flaws). Putting a Post-it note over your webcam isn’t a bad idea.

The average person blinks every four seconds, about 15 times per minute. That is over 20,000 times a day. Four seconds is not a lot of time, but a lot can get done in four seconds. You can slice a whole cucumber, chug a glass of water, go from 0 to 60 MPH in a hot rod and lots of other things.