Do You Always Tell Employees the Truth? You Should.
Even if you face something as difficult and stressful as having to close a business, you have only one choice: Do it badly, or do it right. Read more
Computer Security
Recent Computer Security Articles
Biggest Business Threat You're Probably Ignoring
If you're like most business owners, you haven't taken any precautions because the worst hasn't happened yet. Bad move. Read more
The Bank Scam That Hit My Business
FruitGuys founder Chris Mittelstaedt explains how hackers got into his company's bank account--and how not to let it happen to you. Read more
Prevent Hack Attacks: 5 Things to Do Today
Just how easily can a hacker destroy your online life? You don't want to know. Take preventive measures now. Read more
Why Performance Should Be Measured 
John Caplan, CEO of OpenSky, talks about performance measurement and working with family. Watch video
Why Entrepreneurs Should Never Be Micromanagers
The three founders of Zumba Fitness talk about learning to lead by trusting their employees to do their jobs. Watch video
Protect Your Company From Fired Employees: 8 Steps
Use this checklist after terminating an employee to ensure that you, your employees, and your company remain secure. Read more
How to Avoid Password Hacks: 5 Rules
The lesson from LinkedIn's data breach? Most online passwords are easy nuts to crack. Here are some simple rules to stay safe. Read more
5 Reasons Why Your Company Is Safer in the Cloud
Still reluctant to put your data in the cloud? Don't be--the security is far stronger than anything your company can offer. Read more
The Hack That Helped Launch a Company
Start-up Voyager Mobile got hacked--and wound up tripling the media attention for its launch. Read more
4 Tech Mistakes That Can Bring Down Your Business
You're no IT person--you have a business to run!--but you can't afford to get these technology decisions wrong. Read more
How Gilt Keeps a Stellar Workforce
Gilt Groupe's CEO Kevin Ryan says you should get to know all of your employees and learn when it's time to promote and let go. Watch video
3 Cloud Services That Make Work Easier
Protect yourself against data loss, security blunders, and--that real productivity killer--inefficiency. Read more
Encourage Employees to Speak Up
Silence is not golden. To really know what's going on, you need people around you to say what's on their minds (even if it's not what you want to hear). Read more
6 Major Tech Innovations for 2012
These trends could make for huge opportunities--or huge disruptions to your business. Either way, they are ones to watch. Read more
Are You an Oversharer Online? How to Tell
A new tool scans all of your online activity and lets you know if it's in danger of tainting your reputation. Read more
5 New Apps & Tech Tools to Try
Dozens of new gadgets and Web services promise to boost your business. Here are five that just might deliver. Read more
7 Classic Tech Blunders to Avoid
Any of these mistakes could cost you time, money, and the security of your business. Read more
Cheap Ways to Make an Old Computer New Again
Sprucing up the office computers is a lot more affordable than replacing them. Read more
Zappos' Security Breach: Are You Next?
The hackers didn't get credit card information but what they did get is potentially more dangerous. Don't let it happen to your business. Read more
Do You Have a Privacy Problem?
Google, Facebook, and others have made consumers particularly sensitive about their privacy online. That means you need to be sensitive about it too. Read more
Why You Might Be a Prime Target for Cyber Criminals
Hackers stole credit card data from 200 businesses over three years and racked up $3 million in bogus charges. Don't think it can't happen to you. Read more
What's Going on With SOPA?
The Stop Online Piracy Act could allow the government and corporations to create website blacklists. That's enraging tech's best and brightest. Read more
New Ways to Keep Hackers Out of Your Business
Want to keep your computers, e-mails, and business secrets safe? Learn the latest in data encryption. Read more
You’re Being Sued. Do You Know Where Your Data Is?
Once upon a time, you simply handed over the contents of your file cabinets to the lawyers. In the digital age, the task is much more complicatedâ€"and expen... Read more
This Start-up Wants to Save You From Data Disaster
Axcient, which hopes to simplify data recovery for small businesses, has closed a $15.5 million funding round. Read more
Why You Should Stop Reading This and Go Get a Data Backup Plan
Some half of small businesses never reopen after a data Armageddon. So why do less than half of small firms have plans if disaster strikes? Read more
Would You Fire Someone for Taking Time Off to Donate a Kidney?
A mother's attempt to save her son spotlights holes in the Family and Medical Leave Act: It doesn't apply to businesses with fewer than 50 employees. Read more
Would You Fire Someone for Scaring Off Robbers?
A Walgreens pharmacist fires a gun, he says, in self-defense, and then is fired. Read more
Judge Orders Re-Hiring of Workers Fired for Facebook Complaints
A National Labor Relations Board judge says workers fired for off-duty griping about their jobs on Facebook should be re-hired. Read more
Would You Fire Someone for Planking?
A GameStop employee posts a photo of himself planking, and gets himself and the co-worker who took the picture, fired. Read more
How Secure Is Your Mobile?
Here's a title Google isn't likely to be trumpeting anytime soon: No. 1 target of mobile hackers. Read more
America’s Fastest-Growing Security Company
Foreground Security CEO David Amsler and his employees hack into companies’ computer networks to protect them from the bad guys. Read more
America’s Fastest-Growing Computer Hardware Company
A10 Networks makes and installs networking and IT security products. Read more
What a "Second Internet" Means for Small Business
What if you could conduct business on a second, more secure Internet? Read more
