In today’s unpredictable world, small businesses are increasingly vulnerable to unexpected events, ranging from power failures to major disasters like flooding. While these occurrences can’t always be predicted, proactive steps can be taken to protect your business from significant damage. One of the most crucial measures is implementing a disaster recovery plan for small businesses. … Read more
It’s been argued that “cloud computing” has been around for well over 70 years. If that doesn’t instill a little bit of trust in you, the rest of this article should! Alright, maybe it’s been 70 years, maybe it hasn’t. The concept of cloud computing was certainly acknowledged in the 1960s and has since become … Read more
“What are your data center features?” Surprisingly, this type of question rarely gets asked of our Sales Team by those looking for new Wholesale ERP Software. I say surprisingly because the data center is one of the most critical parts of a business’ success, and its efficacy and security directly impacts the daily operations of your business … Read more
As the industry moves to accept more and more types of payments – online, instore, mobile, or via wearable device – the risk of data theft and credit card fraud inevitably increases too. Even with provisions in place such as chip protection and two-factor authentication, fraudsters are still able to compromise credit cards at an … Read more
A guest post from Dave Locke of Value Added Systems – a leading edge provider of comprehensive IT Services, from systems design to implementation and management IT security is often one of the most overlooked parts of managing your business and can be one of the least understood. This is especially true for small organizations without … Read more
[Click to view full infographic] Have you recently been contacted as the recipient of an unknown inheritance worth millions of dollars? Has a beautiful woman messaged you because she is interested in building a relationship? Has the Amazon order you forgot you placed finally shipped? Did you forget to pay an old invoice? Do you … Read more
For as long as there has been the internet, there has also been malicious content and cybercriminals trying to steal sensitive information from people and organizations. And although there are measures you can implement to protect yourself against these types of attacks, it does not mean that they will stop, or that cybercriminals won’t continue … Read more
With the recent Equifax breach splashed across headlines, many businesses are starting to evaluate the security of their own company information. When we see such news, most usually think that cyber hackers are the cause and frequently they are, however, data exposure and data loss also happens due to poor employee practices or unauthorized access … Read more
If you’re in the wholesale business, it’s not ghosts and ghouls that are spooking you this Halloween but something much more frightening — unsecure wholesale inventory software. From confidential customer and employee information to real-time inventory data, orders, accounting and banking information— your entire warehouse and business operations data lives in your software. So, it’s … Read more
At least two of our customers that are hosting the software on their own servers (on-premises) have been hit by ransomware in recent weeks. Briefly, this is malware that encrypts the data on your hard drive (or server hard drive), and you are then asked to pay a ransom to obtain the key to unencrypt … Read more
