Computer Security


Recent Computer Security Articles

Bold Storage

By Ilan Mochari |  Mar 1, 2000

Here's why Melissa McNatt, a regional sales director, turned to free online document storage to help her securely handle crucial files while traveling.  Read more

Thrown by the Zone

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Feb 1, 2000

In 1984, when Debbi E. Milner and her husband, John, founded the computer reseller Jade Systems Corp. in their home, they never dreamed they would be comp...  Read more

Myth 1: Building a Web Site Is Easy

By Emily Barker |  Feb 1, 2000

Businesses making the jump to the Web should leave plenty of room for error. A look at the technical difficulties Hire Quality encountered when trying to bui...  Read more

BigBrother.com: The Net War on Privacy

By David Batstone |  Feb 1, 2000

How dearly do you value your privacy? Are you willing to exchange it for a free computer? Or perhaps a discount on your groceries? A recent survey ...  Read more

Beef Up Your Disaster Preparedness Plan

By Kimberly Stansell |  Jan 7, 2000

If your office were affected by flood, fire, earthquake, or another natural disaster, could you bounce back? Your recovery from a disaster begins with hav...  Read more

Pumping Your Visitors for Information

By Jeff Cannon |  Jan 1, 2000

What to Ask Your Users Regardless of your site, there are two types of information you will need at first. The first type can be...  Read more

Beef Up Your Disaster Preparedness Plan

By Kimberly Stansell |  Jan 1, 2000

If your office were affected by flood, fire, earthquake, or another natural disaster, could you bounce back? Your recovery from a disaster begins with hav...  Read more

The News Today, Oh Boy

By George Gendron |  Nov 1, 1999

Inc. magazine's editor discusses the diverging fates of two people featured on the cover of Inc. in the past: Doug Mellinger, founder of PR...  Read more

Backing Up Your Business Data

Oct 20, 1999

One day - maybe 10 years from now, maybe tomorrow - the computer that servesyour Web site will break down, destroying your business records. If yo...  Read more

HR Keeps Business Disaster Plans Focused on People

Oct 1, 1999

Hurricane Floyd was just the latest of the reminders that companies receive from time to time to keep theirdisaster plans up to date. It's an important re...  Read more

Layoffs: A Wrong Way and a Right Way

By Bob Nelson |  Oct 1, 1999

Best Practice: Layoffs with Integrity Cruel and Unusual A controller for a state agency in Wisconsin was ask...  Read more

Why Hackers Love Small-Business Networks

Sep 22, 1999

Most Internet users know by now that hackers can target any account. But the conventional wisdom is that hackers are only looking for "interesting" target...  Read more

Tactics for Turning Web Browsers into Buyers

Jul 5, 1999

Recent studies have shown that only about half of the estimated 60 million people shopping online actually make purchases. NFO Interactive recently survey...  Read more

Film Buffs

By David B. Sicilia |  Dec 1, 1998

Eliminating paper in favor of space-saving digital storage isn't a new concept. The idea began in the 1930s with the advent of microfilm.  Read more

Darkest Hour

By Inc. staff |  Oct 15, 1998

Ascent Solutions hired salespeople fresh out of college, knowing full well that they'd leave within a couple ofyears. But CEO Tim Meade never expected to ...  Read more

Daddy, I Crashed the Company

By Inc. staff |  Oct 15, 1998

In 1991 Stephen Smith's parents handed him the keys to Axxis, the audiovisual equipment rental company they had started out of their garage a decade earli...  Read more

Family Logjam Blocks Lumber Store's Revival

By Mike Hofman |  Aug 1, 1998

Sutersville Lumber, Inc. was forced to shut down when it couldn't implement a strategy to compete with lumber giant, Home Depot. A business obit.  Read more

QA: Sharing Information with Vendors

By Karen Carney |  May 1, 1998

Question: We have a few key vendors, and we hope that sharing certain timelyinformation with them will gain their trust. Any pitfalls...  Read more

Bluebird's Unhappiness

By Emily Esterson |  Mar 15, 1998

Hal Rilbury had a ghost in the machine. Starting in late 1994, the founder and CEO of Bluebird Systems, a $10 million imaging-systems software developer b...  Read more

Smarter Network Setup Stops Surges

Jan 1, 1998

Sheila Skolnick thought she had plenty of protection. Surge protection, that is. The owner of Elite Companies, an $18-million hotel-supplies company in Se...  Read more

Update Your Virus-Protection Software

Jan 1, 1998

For years now, Alex Haddox, of the Symantec Antivirus Research Center, in Santa Monica, Calif., has studied the devastating effect of boot-sector viruses....  Read more

Protect Your Computers: It's Worth the Price

Jan 1, 1998

Computer security isn't always expensive. Break-ins usually are. Simson Garfinkel, author of Practical UNIX and Internet Security (O'Reilly, 800-...  Read more

A River Runs Through IT

By Joshua D. Macht |  Jun 15, 1997

When the Red River recently overflowed its banks and flooded Grand Forks, N. Dak., it displaced more than 50,000 residents and devastated virtually every ...  Read more

Freudian Chip

By Joshua D. Macht |  Dec 15, 1996

A counselor explains how she helps users cope with losing their beloved data.  Read more

Information Age

By Cary Lu |  Dec 15, 1996

Planning now will give you the media and methods for long-term backups to make sure your data will survive.  Read more

Tiny Tape Packs a Wallop

By Richard Anders |  Jun 15, 1996

A publisher reviews a tape-backup system and explains that good things do come in small packages.  Read more

QA: Pricing Custom Software

By Alessandra Bianchi |  Apr 1, 1996

A software architect answers questions for business people who are interested in working with software consultants.  Read more

It's All in the Cards

By Paul Franson |  Mar 15, 1996

A review of various PC cards that can turn your laptop into everything from a pager to a global positioner.  Read more

Data Storage: When Lightning Strikes

By Phaedra Hise |  Jan 1, 1996

A CEO explains how her company survived after lightning struck its computer system.  Read more

Insurance: Why Hire a Public Adjuster?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Oct 1, 1995

A real-estate-brokerage firm's CEO explains why he hired a public adjuster.  Read more

Lock-less Monster

By Moe Meyerson |  Jun 15, 1995

A light-hearted look at how you may be hurting productivity by making sure everything is securely protected with passwords.  Read more

When a Virus Strikes Your PC

By David Abrahamson |  Mar 1, 1995

Lessons learned by a start-up company when a virus destroyed their files.  Read more

Detour Insurer Roadblocks

Jan 1, 1995

When Mark Moerdler, executive vice-president of MDY Advanced Technologies, in Fair Lawn, N.J., learned that $90,000 worth of computers andequipment had be...  Read more

What's Next: Paving the Information Highway

By Andrew S. Grove |  Jun 15, 1994

A high-tech expert predicts that the next wave in high-tech innovation will be in networks and what they will look like.  Read more

Antivirus Hardware

By Robert A. Mamis |  Sep 1, 1992

Hardware that attempts to prevent unauthorized computer use and virus contamination.  Read more