Category: Security Blog

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The ROI of Business Security

If your server crashed overnight, would you be able to recover your small business’s data? You and your employees create or update data every day. You add customer information, create financial documents or save marketing materials. This information is critical to your business security. Whether it’s the current data you use to distribute your services…
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Remote Video Guarding: Watching Your Facility from Afar

Imagine the ability to detect a burglary in progress on your property…and to establish control of the situation by having your 24×365 Central Station professionals actually speaking and listening to the trespasser through your Remote Video Guarding solution. Think of the ability to dispatch resources to prevent theft, or the potential to describe a burglar’s…
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Sending Encrypted eMail – Key Benefits (Part 7)

We’ve come to part 7 of our cloud computing benefits series. Today we’ll be looking at why sending encrypted email is an excellent example of wise cloud computing for your business. We’ve all seen them…the little blurb at the bottom of the email you may send or receive that contains all the legal jargon about…
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Insights into Virtual Infrastructure vs. On-Premise Solution (Part 6)

Here in Part 6 in our series on Cloud Computing Benefits, we’ll explore powerful alternatives to dedicated servers and on-premise machines. Let’s take a look at how employing hosted servers in a virtual infrastructure (also known as IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service) may have advantages for your business over using the traditional on-premise model.…
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Increasing Need for Network Security

There is a demand and increasing need for network security, especially with recent headlines continuously citing companies seeing security breaches and sensitive information being leaked or stolen.Major companies like Sony, Bank of America, Facebook, Twitter and others worth billions have seen multiple security breaches because of negligence to protect their information. Whether it’s a small…
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Top 7 Reasons To Consider Hosted VOIP For Your Business (Part 5)

Welcome to Part 5 of our 10-Part series on Cloud Computing Benefits. In this part, we’ll take a look at the top 7 reasons why employing a Hosted VOIP solution may be worth checking out for your business.   First of all, let’s define VOIP. Literally, VOIP is an acronym for Voice Over Internet Protocol.…
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Physical Premise to Network Security

Ever wonder why so many still seek out multiple vendors…one for their physical premise business security (including services like access control and camera surveillance) and another for their network security (for services like intrusion detection and virus protection?) We wondered the same thing. That’s why, here at Altec Systems, we deliberately decided to offer both…
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Cloud Based Email – Another Timely Desktop Cloud Benefit (Part 4)

We hope you have been finding the first few articles of our 10-part series on Cloud Computing Benefits useful and informative. In today’s Part 4, we’ll be focusing on Cloud based Email. Specifically, how does Hosted Microsoft Exchange® add value to you in your desktop cloud computing? Well-known Microsoft Exchange is the world’s foremost business…
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Do Cloud Computing Benefits Exist For PCI Compliance? (Part 3)

Welcome to Part 3 of our 10-part series on the Cloud Computing Benefits you should know. In this part we’ll take a look at PCI compliance in the cloud and why this is so important to your business, especially now. Stringent Regulations If your organization processes, stores or transmits credit card data today, you are…
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Managed Access Control – The Next Level of Hosted Access Control

Perhaps you are already familiar with the benefits of using Hosted Access Control. If your company uses this type of business security today, you already know it includes such helpful attributes as remote internet access and the convenience of having your security provider host the software required to run your security system. When, then, should…
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