Firewall Monitoring, is it for you?

Is your data at risk?

 Barely a day goes by that you don’t see, read or hear a news story declaring the latest big business or government entity that has fallen victim to hackers or data thieves. The scarier truth is, that its not only big companies that are targets, even small firms can become the unknowing focus of attention of a hacker or disgruntled employee.

It is likely that you have a firewall between your business network and the Internet, if you are a Finao-IT client, this firewall is constantly not only defending your data, but also logging all attempts to breach the network. As a general rule our engineers check these logs whenever they access your network for a support call, however; we can also monitor your firewall 24×7 in real time to catch malicious activity as it happens and if necessary take action.

This service also includes a monthly email of security logs and concerns as reported by your firewall. It is up to you to determine the level of data-loss risk you are comfortable with, and if you want to take the next step in securing your data, give us a call and we can begin monitoring services in less than an hour. At $9.99 a month it’s very affordable.

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Keyboard Shortcuts – Your Friend

 

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can help you to increase your productivity and do some things much more easily than you can with the mouse.  The problem is that many people do not realize that there are keyboard shortcuts available.  They are easy to use if you know what you are looking at. There are simple two key commands and three and four key commands to help you be more productive.  All of them work on Windows 7 and many of them work on other versions of windows.

If you look at your keyboard you will see the windows key on the bottom row.  It is usually the windows logo with a circle around it.

Here are some of the keyboard shortcuts that I use the most.

Windows Productivity

§  Win (Display or hide the Start menu)

§  Win+D (Display the desktop)

§  Win+M (Minimize all of the windows)

§  Win+Shift+M (Restore the minimized windows)

§  Win+E (Open  My Computer)

§  Win+F (Search for a file or a folder)

§  CTRL+Win+F (Search for computers only works if you are in a domain)

§  Win+F1 (Display Windows Help)

§  Win+ L (Lock the keyboard)

§  Win+R (Open the Run dialog box)

§  Win+U (Open Utility Manager)

§  Win + Pause/Break (Display System Properties Window)

§  Win + Tab (Cycle Through Open Windows)

General Shortcuts

§  Shift + Arrow  (Highlight Text)

§  CTRL+A (Highlight all text in active window)

§  CTRL+C (Copy)

§  CTRL+X (Cut)

§  CTRL+V (Paste)

§  CTRL+Z (Undo)

§  CTRL+B (Bold Highlighted Text)

§  CTRL+U (Underline Highlighted Text) 

Internet Explorer Navigation


§  CTRL+B (Open the Organize Favorites dialog box)

§  CTRL+E (Open the Search bar)

§  CTRL+F (Start the Find utility)

§  CTRL+H (Open the History bar)

§  CTRL+I (Open the Favorites bar)

§  CTRL+L (Open the Open dialog box)

§  CTRL+N (Start another instance of the browser with the same Web address)

§  CTRL+O (Open the Open dialog box, the same as CTRL+L)

§  CTRL+P (Open the Print dialog box)

§  CTRL+R (Update the current Web page)

§  CTRL+W (Close the current window)

 

 

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Disaster Recovery Planning

We Can Help!

The U.S. Department of Labor estimates over 40% of businesses never reopen following a disaster. Of the remaining companies, at least 25% will close within 2 years. Over 60% of businesses confronted by a major disaster close by two years, according to the Association of Records Managers and Administrators.

Do you have a plan in place to keep you in business if you suffer a catastrophic loss of data and your computer systems?  Most small businesses do not and as a result put themselves at risk to not being able to recover and stay in business.

One of the Services we are proud to offer from Finao Capital Partners LLC. is comprehensive Disaster Recovery Planning Assistance! Starting with a Disaster Recovery Audit and if necessary moving into a full planning and documentation basis, we can help Practice Managers and Business owners develop, document and if necessary implement a Disaster Recovery Plan for their business.

Many Insurance companies are beginning to require such a plan be in place in order to write or renew a business policy!  Call or e-mail us today and use the attached coupon for savings on an initial Disaster Recovery Audit.

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The Importance of Off-Site Backup

Is your data truly “Backed Up”?

If you are only using tape or hard disk backup, then the answer is no. Before the terrorist attacks of September Eleventh, 2001 most business’s were completely comfortable having a backup tape rotation and someone from the office taking a nightly backup home.

After 9-11 however, more managers and owners of small and medium sized firms realized the potential for a large scale disaster that could affect not only the business location but a more regional swath of destruction that could also render the tape taken home useless.

In addition we have found that for the average medical practice/small business, the person tasked with tape removal/change either forgets, calls in sick, or misses a tape at least once a month. What if that day is the day you suffer a fire? Can you afford to have a total loss of patient records or customer information? How about the lost cash flow? How would you meet your tax obligations?

If your firm has multiple locations that are seperated by at least ten to 20 miles, consider a backup server or storage device at the remote location. If not then Finao-IT can help you by installing our off-site backup software and providing safe, encrypted and easy to restore data storage in Atlanta GA, or Chicago IL.

Costs for this service are as low as $25/mo depending on the amount of data to be backed up, and inn the event of a total loss of your facility, the data is Fed-Ex shipped on a hard disk to your temporary location.

Call or email today for a quote!

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