Blog / 4 Tricks for Faster Computers from your IT Experts One of the most common technical issues users run into is the problem of slow-running computers. Regardless of whether you’re a business chasing better hardware investment returns or a casual user trying to get the most out of an outdated machine, there are several low-tech solution solutions you can try out yourself before calling in […] November 01, 2021
Blog / Password Policies Are More Than Just Paperwork There are plenty of regulations out there when it comes to your organization’s electronic security. The most common ones I’ve encountered are PIPA (Personal Information Protection Act, an Alberta regulation that governs the protection of personal information), PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, a federal version of the Albertan act) and PCI-DSS (Payment […] October 26, 2021
Blog / A Cyber Insurance Primer for SMBs No matter the size of your business, you’re never too big to take a hit. Between major breaches like the Kaseya incident earlier this year, and the thousands of minor breaches and ransoms SMBs suffer through that never make the headlines, it’s not hard to recognize that the valuable data assets which inform your strategic […] October 21, 2021
Blog / How to approach computer and IT security How do you approach IT security? Where do you start and what should you do? These are great questions that people ask all the time because IT security is an understandably specialized field that requires more training than natural skill. There’s a lot that you need to know before you even start to get good […] October 19, 2021
Blog / Five signs it’s time for a new, fully managed IT provider When it comes to the modern world, it’s imperative that organizations have a strong IT foundation. Regardless of whether you’re part of a health clinic, a municipality, a non-profit, or a straight up SMB, it’s virtually impossible to function without some kind of reliable information technology. Each sector is unique in its IT requirements, and […] October 18, 2021
Blog / Don’t Take the Windows 11 Upgrade (Yet) As you likely already know, Microsoft recently released the latest version of their famous operating system, Windows 11, on October 5th. Microsoft’s own blog breaks down the features and details about their plans for a tiered rollout over the remainder of 2021 and 2022. And as you also likely already know, we at TRINUS are […] October 14, 2021
Blog / Are you important enough to get hacked? There’s an interesting misconception out there—a myth, if you will—that your organization is too small and unimportant to be worth hacking or being held to a ransomware demand. It’s comforting to believe, for any reason, that your organization won’t suffer an attack. It may not be true, but it’s comforting. I think this belief comes […] October 12, 2021
Blog / Organizational Change Management vs Technological (Pt. 2) As we all know, change is one of those few truly inevitable aspects of our lives. Regardless of whether you embrace the steady streams of new features in app updates or resent them for changing your app up just as you got used to it, the fact is change waits for no one. Nowhere is […] October 07, 2021
Blog / Watering Hole Attacks: What they are and how to avoid them I’ve talked about many different kinds of attacks over the course of this newsletter. Ransomware gets a lot of attention (since it’s such a common attack), but I’ve also talked about phishing, social engineering, cross-site scripting and other types of attacks. It’s important to understand the vocabulary of computer security if you don’t want to […] October 05, 2021
Blog / IT support desks vs help desks: What’s the Difference? No one needs to be reminded that computers are central to our lives these days, but they’re such complex devices that most users don’t fully understand how they work. Nor do they need to. Computers need to be reliable without everyone understanding their minutia for our modern world to run. That’s the entire point of […] October 04, 2021
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