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Everything You Need to Know About the Dyn DDoS Cyberattack

The cyberattack on DNS provider Dyn created outages on sites as massive as Twitter and Amazon. What happened?

November 8, 2016 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

If you’ve been on the internet in the past few weeks you’ve heard about the large scale cyberattack on DNS provider Dyn. On October 21, major websites including Twitter, Amazon, Spotify, Reddit, PayPal, Airbnb, Wired, Pinterest, and more experienced outages. The common thread? Each of these sites used Dyn as their upstream DNS provider. A […]

How to Handle Internet of Things Security

A world of Internet of Things is a world where your network has billions of possible entryways for hackers.

October 27, 2016 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

Here are some hard truths. The Internet of Things is coming to business. You’re going to need to adopt it in some fashion if you want to survive. When you do, your network will be more susceptible to being hacked than ever. At last week’s Internet of Things Security Summit in Boston, professionals from all […]

9 Surefire Steps to Lockdown Your Cyber Security

Businesses lose more than $100 billion a year to cyber-attacks and fraud globally.

October 20, 2016 Clinton Henry Leave a Comment

“Dear Client”. That’s how the letter usually begins. The next few sentences are a little trickier; there is really no good way for someone to hear that their data has been stolen. Unfortunately, getting this letter is becoming an all too common occurrence in business. While a security breach might be one of the last […]

Standing Desks at School Could Be the Cure to Childhood Obesity

New research from Texas A&M finds that standing desks have a positive impact on the body mass index (BMI) of children who use them.

October 19, 2016 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

I already have a standing desk at work. I don’t always stand at it. I won’t lie to you. There are times where I’m too tired or too lazy or too sucked into my work to stay standing. However, there is always a portion of every day where I choose to stand, whether that be […]

15 Online Tools for Students and Teachers to Create Presentations

Presentations can be an equally daunting task for students and educators to put together and deliver.

October 18, 2016 Gloria Kopp Leave a Comment

If presentations are not done right, they could lead to boring, mind wandering time wasters, where the message doesn’t really get through properly. But, help is available in the form of great online tools that’ll help you create engaging presentations, whether you’re a student or a teacher. Keep their attention, get your message across, and […]

7 Tools to Deliver Web Based Training for Multiple Devices

With employees around the country and around the world, utilizing mobile devices for online training can be a time and cost saver.

October 11, 2016 Mary Walton Leave a Comment

We live in a world where everyone is always connected to their internet, thanks to their mobile phones and laptops. It’s hard to think of a time when you won’t be connected to the net at all. It’s not surprising, then, that more and more employees prefer web based training over other benefits in their […]

The Digital Workplace: Current Trends Shaping Enterprise Communications

Never before have enterprise software and technology solutions played such an important role on the employee communications and human resources front.

October 10, 2016 Maria Porco Leave a Comment

Enterprise communications is undergoing a fundamental shift. These solutions are connecting employees, keeping them engaged, supporting social collaboration, enabling a wider variety of workspaces as well as devices, and ultimately, keeping employees productive and talent retained. Looking beyond 2016, there are several trends to take notice of that are creating a new way to work […]

Putting a Whiteboard in the Hands of Every Student Creates a Collaborative Classroom

When we unleash the power of existing computers, 1:1 programs, and BYOD devices to allow whiteboarding anytime and anywhere, every student benefits.

October 6, 2016 Jim Kirchner Leave a Comment

As central classroom displays have evolved from chalkboards to dry erase boards to interactive whiteboards (IWBs), whiteboarding has grown more interactive and technologically sophisticated over time. More than a decade after their first appearance in classrooms, it’s clear that IWBs and panels can engage students—but cost, the need for training, and concurrent use by many […]

Dell Updates Advanced Analytics Platform Statistica

Latest release of Dell Statistica further enables edge analytics by delivering workflows to any edge device or gateway.

October 4, 2016 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Dell Software Group announced the next major release of its award-winning advanced analytics platform, Dell Statistica 13.2. The latest release of Statistica helps companies transform their businesses and achieve new levels of success by embedding analytics everywhere and empowering a wider community of users and use cases. Key features include new collective intelligence capabilities to […]

The Google Apps Admin Cheat Sheet

Check out our list of 5 things that IT admins in school must complete even after the school year starts.

October 3, 2016 Tim Burke Leave a Comment

As an IT admin, you spent a good portion of your summer prepping your Google Apps domain with the latest student and teacher information, organizational units, workflows and more, so teachers and students can take the new school year by storm. Everyone’s up and running so far, so you’re all set, right? Not so fast. […]