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Welcome and thank you for visiting our information technology newsletter. We hope these information technology tips provide a better understanding of IT management. We welcome any questions regarding IT project management, business management software, business management systems or Management information Systems. Below are the MIS newsletters listed by month, click on the links to view information. Load times will very depending on your connection speed. Please feel free to visit our affiliates and/or use our help center if you need assistance.
What's VPN?
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. A VPN uses the Internet as it's transport mechanism, while maintaining the security of the data on the VPN.
The most common configuration is to have a single main internal network with remote nodes using VPN to gain full access to the central net. The remote nodes are commonly remote offices or employees working from home. You can also link two small (or large) networks to form an even larger single network. A Virtual Private Network is low-cost, easy-to-implement, and convenient solution for mobile and remote business networking.
Please click here to start using the potentials of VPN.
Backup Strategy
Data loss can occur because of a multitude of other reasons, such as accidental file deletion, and may go undetected for days, weeks or longer. A good backup strategy needs to allow you to restore data from a variety of instances back in time. Our MIS Team is ready to help you!
Hacker gets six months
A HACKER INFAMOUS for breaking into the networks of some of the largest U.S. companies and then offering them free security advice was sentenced a few weeks ago in federal court to six months of home detention and two years' probation with restricted Internet access. The Public Defender reported the hacker also will have to pay $65,000 in restitution.
Canning Spam
Unsolicited e-mail may seem like a slight irritation but left unimpeded it can clog a server and become a conduit for network-threatening viruses and worms. This is why we protect our email server using a mix of several mail filters.
For instance, an e-mail is checked at several layers with specific rules employed at each step. A probability scoring engine ranks the e-mail based on independent spam indicators, such as the type of account it's coming from or a string within the text. Network blacklists reject e-mails from specific IP addresses and networks, while distributed DNS blacklists use name-to-value lookup services. Whitelists keep track of valid e-mail addresses.
We believe all these mechanisms will help ensure that your network remains closed against spam.
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