Better Security Training Starts with Engagement Your organization’s network security is dictated in part by your security solutions, but your employees also play a large role in maintaining it. If you want to make sure that your employees are not inadvertently [...]
We All Need to Watch Out for These Common Phishing Attacks Hackers are always taking advantage of others’ misfortunes, and they have even gone so far as to leverage the COVID-19 pandemic in efforts to launch phishing attacks. How have hackers [...]
If Your Backup Doesn’t Involve These Three Aspects, You’re Doing It Wrong For any business continuity strategy to be complete, a data backup strategy needs to be involved. This is often easier said than done: there are a lot of elements [...]
How To Write A Good IT RFP As a managed IT services provider and technology partner, we here at Ashton Technology Solutions respond to a variety of RFPs (Requests for Proposal) seeking technology services and solutions. Generally speaking, these RFPs come [...]
How Much Time Do You Have? Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus As you get older, time goes by more quickly. The technical reason is that when you are 5, [...]
One Chance Riverbank Ruminations; Observations from The Banks of The Technology River Tom Evans ~ Ashton Engineer Emeritus While this article was primarily discussing a new product offering, I found two interesting points. One of the greatest truths in cybersecurity [...]
With nearly everyone facing a recession in 2021, businesses are going to be looking to technology to keep their businesses afloat. The COVID-19 pandemic made businesses shift their priorities in 2020 and as the pandemic enters year two, these strategies will [...]
Business Continuity Planning, Post Pandemic Ashton’s clients have been in the process of returning to the office in varying forms: some are electing to phase their team back into the office, others have elected to continue remote work and to “hybridize” [...]
Why You Shouldn't Ask Just Anyone for Tech Advice When it comes to dealing with things around the office, most people have almost no problem calling in a subject-matter expert to handle the issue. Toilet won’t stop running? Bring in a [...]
Tip of the Week: File Management Tips Thanks to file management systems that can be digitized and stored online, filing cabinets can be considered a thing of the past. Of course, you still have to keep digital filing systems organized, but [...]
