Last month the IT industry braced themselves against a large internet virus attack that was to activate on 1st April 2009 but as most internet security experts predicated it wasn’t going to be a dooms day virus as media outlets portrayed it to be.  Instead, when April 1st arrived no major disaster occurred from the Conficker virus and as some major security companies reported, nothing happened.

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Unfortunately all computers that are on a network or the internet will need some form of virus protection software but whether you are in an office or at home will be the deciding factor on what you should really use.

What is the best free anti-virus software?

As a home user we are lucky that companies do offer a free version of their anti-virus service so we can download and test applications at will.

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Unfortunately Christus Health Care in Huston has been thrown into the negative news spotlight after having their backup tapes stolen.

Posted in the Data Loss DB the stolen backup tapes contained personal records of hundreds, possibly thousands of patients for Christus Health Care. The tapes had been stolen from a car in a parking lot and Christus Health Care believes the theft was random and not targeted.

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Recently I’ve been working with a client on some project planning. During my time at their office I’d learned how their business was nearly wiped out because of a fire which really inspired me to publish the story as an example of why offsite data backups are essential.

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If you follow all of the 16 protection steps for laptop protection you can still be at risk of misplacing your laptop or it being stolen. When it comes to a business and its data risks cannot be taken, especially when the data is sensitive and tools are widely available to avoid those risks. By tracking our mobile devices, such as a laptop, we are given more control of our data residing on the hard drive of that device for extra laptop security.

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