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• Iphone Training – Join Iphone/ipad training classes and Learn to create full-featured iPhone/iPad apps. Also find out how to create slideshow, rent movies etc in our Iphone/ipad Workshops.
• PMP Certifications in UAE – The Injazat Institute (Ti2) is a Global Registered Education Provider (GREP) and provides Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Course which focuses on the core skills that are required by the Project Managers.
• Computer Repair Services – Flat Rate Computer Repair | Turn-around usually less than 24 hours! | Free Estimates | Free Diagnostics.
• osCommerce Web Hosting – Looking for Hosting Site? NPSIS - provide reliable, fast, efficiency & makes it easy to run your own Web Server, cpanel hosting server, moodle server.
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• Call Management – eReceptionist the UK's favourite virtual phone system. Free 30 Day trial. Try now. Includes: call answering, call forwarding and voicemail by email. All UK area codes and non-geographic number types.
• Fax software – MyFax is an award-winning fax service/software that allows you to send & receive faxes via your email, the web or smart phone. Includes free fax numbers.
• Network Reliability – TELoIP offers our link aggregation technology as a service through our Partner Program. Our solutions are based on a breakthrough technology that improves connectivity and application performance using both the new and existing infrastructures of end customers.
• Slimming Body Wrap – Burn your fat and shape your body with Infrared body warp. Loss Weight and burn up to 1400 calories in just 50-minute with slimming body wrap.
• Infrared Body Wrap System – The Kontur Body Wrap System is clinically-tested far infrared body-wrap equipment developed using German technology which is by far, the most efficient pain relieving tool in use today.
• Body Shaping – Infrared Therapy makes your body in shaping perfect, In a single 50-minute session, you can burn up to 1,400 calories and be relieved of joint pains instantly!
• Weight Loss – Infrared Body Wrap, Learn how to lose weight with our new infrared body wrap system.
• Weight Loss Retreats: Weight Loss boot camp vacations and weight loss retreats for women and adult fat camps as an alternative to gastric bypass surgery.
• Yoga Training Courses: Intentional wellness is a well known blog in the arena of Yoga and fitness. It conducts a special session on spiritual life coaching and plays an important role in nutrition counseling.

Web Marketing Services to Boost Your Return on Your Online Investment

KBCSI's web marketing services focus on increasing your search visibility and driving new business to you using a focused, online approach. We structure all our packages to meet the needs of your budget.

Web Analytics and Hosting

Businessman John Wanamaker famously said, “I know half of my advertising is wasted, I just don’t know which half.” The same notion probably applies to your website. How is your website performing? What brings visitors to your site? How long do they stay? What pages do they visit? Most importantly, how do you translate these stats into something you can use to help grow your business?

Before you make changes to your website, its good to know what's wrong with it so you can make smart changes to improve its performance. KBCSI sets up and configures analytics tools to provide relevant website statistics - plus, we translate those stats so you know what steps you can take to improve website performance.

Analytics comes packaged with KBCSI's reliable and secure website hosting. Our 24/7 support and immediate technical assistance ensures that your website gets online and stays online in a secure, fast environment. If you already have hosting, we'll transfer your website from your current host to our service quickly.

KBCSI's hosting and support includes:

• online support, security and dependability 24 hours a day
• 1000 MB of storage and 100GB per month bandwidth
• Free set up and 1 free domain with all new hosting accounts
• An easy-to-use control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface
• 30-day money back guarantee

Contact us today to get a quote and learn about our analytics reporting.
 

Business-Driving Web Site Design and Optimization

If you're going to have a website, it ought to drive new and repeat business to your company. We create functional, visually-appealing websites to reach your specific business goals, such as lead generation, sales and improved customer communication. Optimizing the design, structure and content of your site, helps you boost site traffic -- and help you convert more of that traffic into new business.
 
For all web projects, we adhere to these 3 principles:

• Websites should deliver measurable results
• Your website is only as good as its impact on overall business goals
• Your website should be your most profitable business tool

Contact us today to get a quote on a new website that will improve your site visibility and convert more site visitors into prospects and customers.

Local Launch: Secure More Business in Your Area

Search engines have replaced the local Yellow Pages as the best way to find a business. In fact, the majority of Internet searches now come from people searching for products and services offered in their local area. Unfortunately, most companies don't understand how to take advantage of local search opportunities. We use the latest, ethical, local SEO best practice strategies to help you be effective at targeting your local audience. Combining all of these services into one package we are able to economically "Launch" you directly into the path of targeted and qualified prospects searching for the products and services you offer.

The Local Launch Package includes submission to local search engine services:

• Inclusion verification / submission to popular online yellow pages sites
• Optimization of site content for local marketing effectiveness
• Meta tag composition and uploading
• Analytics monitoring and reporting

Contact us today to learn more about how we can help improve your local online presence.
 

Paid Search: Get smart about online advertising

Search engine advertising is still the best way to drive new customers and prospects to your website. Small and mid-sized businesses have an advantage in this space because you have more niche or location-specific offerings. But unless you're an expert in the different search marketing platforms and understand complicated bid management, search advertising can be frustrating - and a big waste of money. KBCSI's search advertising, or Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Management services are specifically geared to the needs of this market, where smaller budgets are typical. We help you take advantage of PPC opportunities on the leading search engines to drive targeted traffic to your website. KBCSI's PPC management services deliver immediate results -- even with limited advertising budgets.

Contact us today to discuss your paid search budget, and let us put together an advertising strategy that works for you.

Want more information about KBCSI's Web Marketing Services? Find out why businesses trust KBCSI with their Internet marketing needs.

KBCSI spam protection  can eliminate at least 90% of all of your e-mail woes.  

Imagine coming in in the morning and not spending hours pilfering through e-mails to find that you only have about 7 to 10 useful e-mails, in addition to not having to worry about what viruses may be lurking in unsuspecting e-mails as well. No more Viagra no more Cialis no more sexual explicit content in e-mail.

With our industry leading Spam protection services we will guarantee you 3 things:

1. We will reduce spam by 90% which  will save you and your organization time and allow you to be more productive

 

 

 

2. We will eliminate erroneous e-mails being sent from your exchange server which keep your organization from being Blacklisted on spam servers"

 

 

 

3. We will protect your server by removing viruses any harmful threats prior to their coming into your network environment which will  protect your network

 

Why choose KBCSI to protect your data?

We Guarantee it - we stand by our service 100% and have a financial guarantee backing our service

Experience - we are responsible for the data of several of businesses, and we have encountered and recovered from every type of disaster imaginable - electrical overloads, disgruntle employee's, water damage, theft, and hardware failures

KBCSI's Remarkable Service commitment - responsive, reliable, resourceful, proactive, personable, and easy to work with – always!

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Your business needs to be smart about web marketing. That means more than having a nice web site design, because even the nicest design still won’t bring prospects and customers to your website. There’s a lot to web marketing, and frankly, if you don’t have in-house experts, its hard to manage and figure out what you need to do to grow your business.

• How much do you need to spend on search ads to get good results?
• What can you do to improve my search rankings so that my business gets found? 
• How can you get more prospects to visit your website and fill out a contact form?

Good questions, but most likely, you don’t have the time or money to waste on learning different online marketing tactics yourself. That’s why KBCSI provides web marketing services using the same approach we have for IT services. We help our customers make sense of web marketing, and manage the ongoing tasks needed to be successful online.

The managed services approach to web marketing

KBCSI combines web marketing packages that include services plus training and management, so you have the expert support you need to keep up with online marketing.

Our packages and services help you:

• Understand exactly how your website is performing: Its hard to know how to improve your web marketing if you don’t know how your current website is performing. KBCSI’s Hosting & Analytics package combines our reliable web hosting with detailed reporting to help you understand how your site performs -- and what you can do to improve how it works for you.
• Get a better website: If you haven’t updated your site in a long time, it may be time to update the whole look and make it easier for site visitors to navigate your site. KBCSI Web Design and Development packages get you a new, better functioning and better looking website that meets your current and future business needs
• Build up your local search visibility: Do most of your business within your state or region (or particular states and regions)? KBCSI’s Local SEO Packages help you focus your web visibility to just the areas you serve, for a more cost-effective approach to driving the right visitors to your website.
• Generate qualified leads: Put your website to work driving more qualified customers and prospects to your website. KBCSI’s Paid Search Packages are built to help people find you in the search engines through targeted Pay-Per-Click advertising on the major search engines.

Ongoing Support of your online marketing efforts

Web marketing isn’t something you can just do once and forget about it. That’s why all our packages come with the ongoing support and services you need to keep your online marketing efforts going strong.

Easy Terms

•    Monthly payment plans to limit your capital expenses/structured as an operating expense
•    Ongoing assistance from a team of online marketing experts as needed

Find out why businesses trust KBCSI with their Internet marketing needs, or learn about some of the web marketing packages we provide to companies just like yours.

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A complete, affordable network solution for small businesses

As a small business, you have limited time and resources to get the job done and keep your business running. Technology can simplify your daily activities while saving you time and money. Designed with your business needs in mind, Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003) is a complete and affordable network solution. SBS 2003 keeps your data secure while maximizing your employee productivity and enhancing your customer communications. SBS 2003 provides small businesses with many of the features used by large enterprises–all in one, integrated product and without the complexity typically associated with new technology.

Keep your business running and your data secure. Windows Small Business Server 2003 secures your network, keeps it up-and-running and automatically protects your business information, allowing you to spend more time focusing on your business and less time and money on technology issues. Keep your business up and running with an operating system that provides your employees with a working environment they can depend on. Protect your business and prevent lost productivity. SBS 2003 provides a secure infrastructure, including built-in firewall protection and secure remote access. Prevent data loss by automatically backing up company information. With SBS 2003, your employees can easily retrieve accidentally deleted files and restore previous versions. Maximize your employee productivity. Your employees can easily find and share information in one centralized location, effectively communicate and collaborate with their peers, and remotely access business information and resources. Provide one central place to store business information, making it easy for your employees to find and access the data they need at any time. Improve team performance by providing your employees with an internal Web site, where they can find and share documents and collaborate on group projects.

• Get the most value from your technology investment. SBS 2003 enables you to share resources and equipment such as printers, fax machines and phone lines. • Access business information when away from the office. Employees can stay productive while on the road by having access to their e-mail, internal Web site, network files and even business applications from any PC with Internet access. Connect with customers. Windows Small Business Server 2003 provides enterprise-class tools to help enhance your company identity and stay connected with your customers from anywhere, anytime. Connect with customers more professionally. With SBS 2003, you can host your own company Web site and e-mail, increasing credibility with your customers. Stay connected with customers from anywhere, anytime. Your employees can communicate with customers whether they’re in the office, at home or on the road. Streamline customer communications with one-to-many fax and e-mail capabilities. Employees can also create and send faxes right from their desktops.

Let KBCSI help you to better connect and serve your current customers, and enable you to grow your business with Microsoft Small Business Server 2003

Are you 100% sure your data backup systems will work when you need them most? Be certain with Total Data Protection™ from KBCSI.

• Are you sure your tape drive is backing up everything it's supposed to?
• Can your data backup plan stand up to fire, flood, employee theft, and viruses?
• Are you regularly testing to see if you can restore your data quickly when necessary?

The information you create – and how you manage, control, and back up that information – is mission-critical to your business. And yet roughly 70% of businesses are still using a tape backup system or something comparable to protect their business.

The average failure rate of disk and tape backup systems over time is 100%! If you’re backing up your data on site with a tape drive, you’re flirting with disaster - the odds are not in your favor!

Backing Up With Tape is Not Enough.

That's why KBCSI brought TDP – Total Data Protection™ – to our clients. Our proven service eliminates the risk and hassles of data loss finally and forever!

KBCSI has been trusted to protect the data of hundreds of businesses, so we set out to find the perfect data backup solution to make sure our client's data is always safe.

And we found it:

No additional equipment to purchase

No cumbersome or unreliable tapes to manage

ALL data on EVERY server backed up automatically every 15 minutes

Monitoring, management, testing, and restores done by our team

The data backup service is so good, it's GUARANTEED!

Back up the critical data on your laptop and desktop - on the road or in the office.

KBCSI’s Premier Desktop Backup, powered by Connected®, the original, undisputed number one PC backup solution, automatically backs up desktops and laptops as users work, and enables the instant retrieval of lost or damaged files.

By giving IT centralized control of PC data, this simple – yet powerful – solution keeps your data safe and always available.

The KBCSI Desktop Backup solution provides:

• Automatic Backup: Rapid, automatic and non-intrusive backup of PC data
• Rapid Recovery: Allows users to easily recover their own data through a secure web portal or perform a system rollback
• Data Reduction/Deduplication: Sophisticated SendOnce™, DeltaBlock™ and Connected EmailOptimizer™ technologies reduce storage needs by up to 85 percent
• Unmatched Scalability: Manage just a few to tens of thousands of PCs with one centralized tool
• Secure Storage: Advanced encryption and high-security, off-site vaulting protect data at all times

No desktop data backup service is complete without these three features – don’t leave your business exposed to the risks of an incomplete data backup plan!

Learn more about our Total Data Protection™ desktop backup plans.

Keeping patient records secure and private is the concern of every hospital and health care provider, but they are often overwhelmed with years and years of patient information and the lack of adequate storage space. Destroying these health records in order to make room for more storage is often not an option. Patients want access to all of their health care records, and physicians need them in order to better diagnose patients. Online data storage is a way to satisfy all of these issues. Using online storage for these records allows easier access for patients, and offers easier sharing of patient information from hospital to physician, as well as from physician to physician. Storing health records online isn’t, however, without security concerns. Patients, hospitals, and physicians want assurance that these confidential records will remain safe, private, and secure, and will only be accessed by those authorized to do so.

What is HIPAA?

HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 was created in order to protect health information and give patients certain rights regarding their private health information. It also allows for disclosure of health information necessary for patient care. This act specifies safeguards necessary for administrative, and physical and technical handling of patient health information.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS.gov) HIPAA has many requirements and restrictions. It requires safeguards for:

• Access Control


• Audit Controls


• Person or Entity Authentication

Access control is defined in the HIPAA Privacy Rule as “the ability or the means necessary to read, write, modify, or communicate data/information or otherwise use any system resource.” It should allow authorized users to only access the minimum amount of information necessary to complete job functions. The Access Control specification also requires the implementation of an exclusive user identification or user ID, and immediate access in case of an emergency.

What Type of Security is Necessary?

When dealing with patient records in an office, maintaining privacy and security usually involves storing patient files in locked cabinets where the files can be physically secured and visibly monitored at all times. When you are storing patient information online, certain precautions must be met in order to maintain the same security and privacy guaranteed each patient.

While HIPAA permits patient records to be transmitted over the Internet, businesses will want a service that offers file encryption, authentication and password protection in order to secure the information. Although HIPAA does not require online data storage services to have encryption, it does require that patient information be adequately protected and accessible only to authorized persons. Encryption is the best way to protect that information and ensure authorized access to those records. It is also important to offer backup services in case of a virus attack, flood, or fire. Finally, the service must offer a method of tracking any security breach, as well as the ability to lock out former employees after they have left or been terminated.

When storing patient information, it is important to stay HIPAA compliant, as the fines for not doing so are expensive. While online storage for health care businesses guarantee less worry, work, and expense for health care providers, the service is only as good as the security offered. Remaining HIPAA compliant is vital in order to continue a good business relationship with the health care industry.

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Experienced Guidance. Attentive Service.

Clients enrolled in KBCSI’s Chief Technology Services are assigned a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) whose priority is to keep their business on the fast track to success.

How does KBCSI's Total Data Protection™ GUARANTEE the data on your servers will be there when you need it?

The KBCSI Total Data Protection Plan is made up of three distinct features that make this the most complete and reliable server data backup option available to your business:

1. Hassle-free Local Backup that gives you the fastest way to recover files quickly

• Data backed up as often as each 15 minutes to Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit located in your office - never worry about long periods of time in between back ups again!
• No unreliable tapes; instead backing up your data to redundant hard drives - no more management of tape rotations!
• All data and applications backed up automatically - no need to choose which files to back up or any need to buy costly agents for Exchange, SQL, or other open files
• Full restoration of files fast and easy enough to be done by anyone - restoring a file takes minutes.
• NAS monitored 24/7 by KBCSI - our team of engineers is constantly watching to make sure your data is being backed up as planned, so you can relax.

2. Rapid Recovery Business Continuity Capability that allows us to replace your failed server with a fully operational "stand-by server" within hours.

Rapid Recovery™ Business Continuity Capability enables the highest possible levels of business continuity in the event of an emergency.

If one of your server crashes, the NAS will be "standing by", ready to quickly be provisioned to temporarily take over in place of the failed server, with all of your applications, data, and settings available within hours vs. the 1 to 3 days of typical recovery time when using a tape backup system (assuming the data is actually even on the tape, and assuming that you have a functional server to restore to!)

3. Disaster Recovery Capability that allows us to re-create your entire data history in the event of a true disaster and eliminates the cost and hassle of off-site tape storage.

Copies of your data can be kept off-site at two secure data centers in the US, meaning that a safe copy of your data always exists. In the event of an emergency that disables or destroys your local back up, offsite copies of your data enables a quick business recovery.

When it's necessary, KBCSI’s service team can have a replacement server with all of your data shipped to your company next-day air, getting your business back on its feet as fast as possible.

No data backup service is complete without these three features - don’t leave your business exposed to the risks of an incomplete data backup plan!

Learn more about our Total Data Protection sever backup plans.

In today's technologically driven business marketplace one of most often overlooked points of vulnerability to your business and personal security is the strength or weakness of the passwords that you define for usage when logging into: your computer network, email provider, online banking, accounting or payroll applications. To underestimate the importance of strong passwords is to leave the door wide open to identity theft and corporate piracy. Your passwords must be a robust combination of all the characters that are available, must be unique for different applications and must not be a word commonly found in any dictionaries, in any language.

We have been conditioned to use weak passwords. For many people the first password we ever needed was for our ATM cards. If this is the case we were limited to the numerals on the keypad 0-9. That simply will not cut it anymore. Malicious computer deciphering programs can run through all of the possible combinations in a matter of seconds. The same types of programs can run through all of the words in the dictionary, plus most common names, in multiple languages even spelled backwards, in a matter of minutes. You cannot have the same password for all of your password needs; if that one password was to get compromised then all of your sensitive private data would be at risk.

How do you come up with strong passwords that you can actually remember, without writing them down where they could be easliy found and used to cause you or your business harm?

A good method is to come up with a phrase that is meaningfully unique to you, and therefore it will be something you will be likely to remember. For example: “I love muscle cars and custom motorcycles” or “Ping golf clubs are my favorites”

Use the first or last letter of each word to create a string or characters, from the example above: “I love muscle cars and custom motorcycles” I could come up with: “Ilmcacm” or “Iemsdms”

Replace one or more of the characters with its numeric position in the alphabet or a special character as in: Ilm3a3m or Ilmc@cm

Add a suffix or prefix to make it unique to each application that you will use it for.

• For my Yahoo email I could use: YeIlm3a3m


• For my Chase bank account I could use: CbIl3ma3m

Make sure that your each unique string of characters is at least eight characters long.

Now that you have a strong passwords, that last thing you need to worry about is using them wisely.

Do not write them down on a sticky note and put them under your keyboard or behind your monitor. Do not store them in the file system of your computer.

Do not use your passwords on computers that have open access to the general public, such as those found in Internet cafes, airports or mall kiosks.

Do not enter personal information such as your user names and passwords on unsecured websites.

Do make sure that the computer terminals that you use your passwords on have up to date anti-spyware and anti-virus applications.

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Backing Up is Not Enough.

Don’t risk your data. Don’t risk your business.

Everon’s Total Data Protection Plan™ includes:
1. Local back up – automatic, reliable back up of all data and applications to a local NAS
2. 2. Quick Recovery™ Business Continuity Capability – the ability to recover the smallest files or entire servers within an hour
3. 3. Disaster Recovery Capability - offsite replication of data to two secure data centers

We can provide your staff with the benefits of effortless access to shared company business processes and information. Add a collaborative approach to content management across all of your business units and improve your organization’s effectiveness, efficiencies and net profits.

MSP Company can provide your staff with the benefits of effortless access to shared company business processes and information. Add a collaborative approach to content management across all of your business units and improve your organization’s effectiveness, efficiencies and net profits.

Get more out of your information

Make better-informed decisions through centralized access to information and improved abilities to locate relevant content; implement comprehensive control over the storage, security, distribution, reuse, and management of documents and other electronic content such as Web pages, PDF files, and e-mail messages; submit work from collaborative sites to portals by using tools that simplify content reuse and publishing.

Streamline your business processes

Accelerate internal and external shared business processes, share business information within and outside of your organization; make business process initiation, participation, tracking, and reporting easy and flexible by providing a simple, consistent user experience through familiar client applications; optimize the way people, content, and processes interact within and across organizations.

Simplify the way people work together

Simplify content reuse and information repurposing; take advantage of workflows to automate and gain more visibility into common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection; focus on strategic, value-added tasks instead of redundant activities; improve and extend team collaboration; enhance your relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers by making forms-based business processes easily accessible to them, even if they haven’t installed client software; see how policy integration with familiar client applications makes compliance transparent and easy for employees.

Let KBCSI:

• Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities
• Help you meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content
• Provide you the ability to effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value
• Simplify your organization’s access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems
• Connect your staff with information and expertise
• Accelerate your business processes across organizational boundaries
• Give your staff access to shared business data without divulging sensitive information

As issues arise that cannot be resolved remotely or that are best handled onsite KBCSI has onsite professionals who will be there to assist you.

Are you 100% sure your data backup systems will work when you need them most? Be certain with Total Data Protection™ from KBCSI.

• Are you sure your tape drive is backing up everything it's supposed to?
• Can your data backup plan stand up to fire, flood, employee theft, and viruses?
• Are you regularly testing to see if you can restore your data quickly when necessary?

The information you create – and how you manage, control, and back up that information – is mission-critical to your business. And yet roughly 70% of businesses are still using a tape backup system or something comparable to protect their business.

The average failure rate of disk and tape backup systems over time is 100%! If you’re backing up your data on site with a tape drive, you’re flirting with disaster - the odds are not in your favor!

Backing Up With Tape is Not Enough.

That's why KBCSI brought TDP – Total Data Protection™ – to our clients. Our proven service eliminates the risk and hassles of data loss finally and forever!

KBCSI has been trusted to protect the data of hundreds of businesses, so we set out to find the perfect data backup solution to make sure our client's data is always safe.

And we found it:

No additional equipment to purchase

No cumbersome or unreliable tapes to manage

ALL data on EVERY server backed up automatically every 15 minutes

Monitoring, management, testing, and restores done by our team

The data backup service is so good, it's GUARANTEED!

Ah, those pesky passwords. If you work in the corporate world or in an office, you have one for your PC/Network and, unless there is a password synchronization application that combines them, you probably have more than one for other applications. Add those to the ones that you have for your home Internet, your banking and other websites that require passwords, and before you know it you have a nightmare on your hands in trying to manage them.

Part of the frustration has to do with the different requirements for password formatting. Some systems only require four characters, some require eight. Some need a combination of alpha and numeric characters and others do the same with the addition of a few capital letters thrown in for extra security. It can be positively maddening.

The worst thing you can do with your passwords is to place them in a text document which can be accessed on the hard drive of your computer. Your files are vulnerable - even if you think they are not. If someone is intent on finding them, they can. Even if you place them into a password protected document, those can be cracked, too.

Writing them down has its own vulnerabilities, too, and there are varying opinions on this practice. If you do write them down on a piece of paper, put the document in a locked location whether it is in your home or at work.

Here are 6 tips on how to handle your passwords:

1. Make them complex. People who use easy to remember or short passwords are inviting disaster. Use a little imagination and pick a password that is very difficult to attach to your life. Stay away from birth dates, phone numbers, house numbers, or any other number that is associated with your life.

2. Keep passwords unique. When you change your passwords, make them unique from each other. Do not use the same password on all of your sites. If you do, then you are open to having every site that you have a password to being vulnerable to hackers to log on and steal your identity, money or destroy your reputation.

3. Be obscure. Use a combination of letters, numbers, capital letters and special characters if possible. The more you do this, the more secure your passwords will become. Create an alphanumeric version of a term you can remember. Using this technique the word "Spaceship" becomes "Sp@ce5h!p".

4. Change regularly. This is the singular tip that can save you if you do not heed any of the other tips. How often should you change your password? How secure do you want to be? The frequency with which you change your password will determine how secure you are from becoming a victim. The more often you change it, the better you are. The longer you leave it the same, the more vulnerable you become. Three months is a good cycle for a password, but certainly if you fear for the security of your identity, then a monthly change is not out of the question.

5. Password-protect your PC. Be sure to give your PC a password on power-up. This will help protect your files unrestricted access to your PC.

6. Password-protect your wireless home network. If you have a wireless home network, be sure to password protect it as well. Use the same principles above in order to secure your wireless network. This will prevent others from accessing your connection and using it maliciously to hack the personal or business PCs and laptops you and your family use at home.

Finally, there are password programs that can help with this important task, but the best advice is to start with the tips above right away. Password software can be useful as an organizational tool, but it is no match for using sound methods to manage and make your passwords difficult to crack.

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Our focus is to keep your entire network operational, available,and secure so that you can focus on the everyday demands of expanding your business, managing costs and increasing revenues.

Patch Management:

KBCSI Patch Management will keep servers, workstations and remote computers up-to-date with the latest important security patches and software updates.

Patch management is not just scanning and applying patches. Often patches need to be deployed in a test environment, undergo an approval process or require multiple steps to deploy. KBCSI provides the tools and infrastructure to enforce policies and to easily address the complexities of software and security patch deployment.

Audit and Inventory:

With our Audit and Inventory, knowing and tracking every system and software detail becomes simple, efficient, and reliable no matter where the machines you need to manage are located.

System Clean up and maintenance

System Configuration changes

Disk management

Network testing

We are constantly updating, patching, protecting, cleaning, and optimizing your equipment to keep it running at its peak performance level.

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In today's technologically driven business marketplace one of most often overlooked points of vulnerability to your business and personal security is the strength or weakness of the passwords that you define for usage when logging into: your computer network, email provider, online banking, accounting or payroll applications. To underestimate the importance of strong passwords is to leave the door wide open to identity theft and corporate piracy. Your passwords must be a robust combination of all the characters that are available, must be unique for different applications and must not be a word commonly found in any dictionaries, in any language. Read More...

Staying HIPAA Compliant with Online Data Storage

Keeping patient records secure and private is the concern of every hospital and health care provider, but they are often overwhelmed with years and years of patient information and the lack of adequate storage space. Destroying these health records in order to make room for more storage is often not an option. Patients want access to all of their health care records, and physicians need them in order to better diagnose patients. Online data storage is a way to satisfy all of these issues. Using online storage for these records allows easier access for patients, and offers easier sharing of patient information from hospital to physician, as well as from physician to physician. Storing health records online isn’t, however, without security concerns. Patients, hospitals, and physicians want assurance that these confidential records will remain safe, private, and secure, and will only be accessed by those authorized to do so. Read More...

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Imagine not having to worry about your technology being outdated imagine having no more support bills related to your PC or your server or anything in your network environment.

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With KBCSI's total solutions plus package we can offer you all of the above services for low monthly fee. Our plan includes the latest Microsoft software, hardware refreshes for desktops and laptops every three years, a server refresh every four years, we can also include other peripheral devices such as printers, firewall devices, and  battery backups all for fixed monthly fee.

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Network Connectivity Troubleshooting - Part Two

This is part two in this series for troubleshooting your network connectivity. Confirming the connectivity with the Internet was the focus of the first three steps in our process. We now continue with the remaining steps to help you discover what the problem with your Internet connection might be. Read More...

Network Connectivity Troubleshooting - Part One

To most computer support persons, having problems connecting to the Internet via a home router and a high-speed connection is not a major issue. However, for those who do not understand some basic technology concepts, solving connectivity problems will be a struggle. The following will give you some tips of where to look for network connectivity problems and how to perform some basic trouble-shooting tasks. Read More...

Hackers Get New Tools for Christmas... MSPs to the Rescue?

Two companies have released software just in time for the holiday season. Core Security Technologies dropped its Exomind application, while Paterva released its Maltego program. Read More...

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Businesses are continually scrutinizing IT budgets. Service quality and high-availability demands are at an all time high. The Internet has revolutionized how businesses operate, allowing us the ability to proactively monitor your critical devices and services and predict potential failures before they occur. 24/7/365

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Two companies have released software just in time for the holiday season. Core Security Technologies dropped its Exomind application, while Paterva released its Maltego program.

Both applications have one thing in common. They can be used to collect information on individuals from snippets of data dropped all across the web. Of course social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace make that job easy already, but these programs can piece together broken links to create virtual profiles that mimic your real world persona. They can identify who you know, where you shop and what you do for a living.

While Exomind was built to assess the negative impact of social networks on privacy, Maltego claims to have a much loftier purpose, the building up of corporate digital footprints to display relationships and reveal trends, which can be used to take corporate competitiveness to another level.

Individuals and companies alike need to be aware of the dangers of this type of software. The existence of Exomind and Maltego promises to revolutionize the way information is assessed on the web, which means that the user must rethink what they put out there.

Whereas before an individual might keep a Facebook profile for personal use and a LinkedIn or Ecademy profile for business purposes and feel fairly confident that the two were being kept separate, the emergence of this technology smashes this sense of security.

On a corporate level it means that sensitive data is exponentially easier to leak to the competition because they may have access to technology that can interpret spikes in communication between different parties or even pick up on blether on forums and in chat rooms.

How Can Managed Service Providers Help?

MSPs can step in to fill the gap in the need for more security. When superior protection is needed it is best to trust the industry giants to do the job. The most popular MSPs in the security business are Symantec and Verizon.

Symantec has a range of service packages tailored to meet the needs of small, mid-sized and large enterprises. They offer a wide range of services from data protection to spam prevention and endpoint security.

Verizon is comparatively new to the internet security business, having acquired Cybertrust in 2007, but they copped the 2009 Global Product Excellence Award for Internet Security so they have a huge stamp of approval.

As technology continues to advance, security threats will only get more and more ubiquitous, so it is wise to leave the protection of data to the professionals. MSPs are a smart and affordable solution to what promises to be a persistent and costly problem.

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To most computer support persons, having problems connecting to the Internet via a home router and a high-speed connection is not a major issue. However, for those who do not understand some basic technology concepts, solving connectivity problems will be a struggle. The following will give you some tips of where to look for network connectivity problems and how to perform some basic trouble-shooting tasks.

Most of the initial steps of this process are common-sense and incredibly basic, but you would be surprised at the number of calls to help desks that are solved simply by having someone turn on a power switch or plug in a cable to a device!

1.Check the power. Make sure that the power is turned on to your router and that you can see some visible signs of that power on the front of the unit. Usually green or yellow lights flash or stay on constantly when the unit has power. If you do not have any of those, check the electrical outlet for power. Plug in a radio, clock, lamp or other device to see if the outlet is 'live.' If so, continue on to the next step. If not, check your electrical box to make sure that your circuit breakers have not tripped because of an overload or other electrical issue.

2.Check the router. If you still get no lights on the front of your router, then unplug it from the electrical outlet and wait for a while (15 minutes to half an hour) and plug it back into that same outlet. Most of these have what we call 'wall-wart' type power supplies that have the square-ish black block on the end which plugs into the wall outlet (or power surge suppressor). Sometimes these can go bad. If you cannot get any of the lights to come on at all on your router, even if you test it in a known "good" wall receptacle, it might mean that the power supply or router itself is defective.

3.Check the cables. Now, if you have confirmed that the electrical outlet is working properly and you are getting lights on the front of your router, then you need to check the network cable between your PC and your router. If you have a wireless router and are having trouble connecting by that method, then you need to troubleshoot first by trying to connect with a hard-wired connection, as it is easier to troubleshoot a hard-wired connection than a wireless one (once you have successfully established connectivity through a wired connection, you can resume troubleshooting wireless connectivity). Normally, your router should include at least one network cable for connecting devices directly to it. Use this cable to connect your PC to your router.. On the front of the router are a series of lights (these differ in color by manufacturer) which indicate the presence of a network connection over the network cable (or Ethernet cable) between your PC and router. Locate the network cable which runs from your router to your PC and unplug it from the back of the router. Does one of the lights go out? If so, that is a good sign. If not, then go to the PC end of the network cable and locate where it connects to your PC. Right around this connection there are usually a set of led lights indicating a network connection. By removing your network cable from the PC, you should see the lights go out. And, with your PC powered on, removing this cable will also usually cause a message to come up on your Windows-based PC indicating that your network connection has been lost. If this happens, then it appears that at least your router and PC are 'talking' to each other. This is usually noted by the 'flashing' activity of these lights.

4.Reboot both your router and your PC. Sometimes a simple reboot will clear up any anomalies between network connections, and this will always be a step any help desk, ISP or router manufacturer's support personnel will ask you to try.

In part two of this series we will talk about checking functionality of your router and then determining whether your problem might lie solely with your PC.

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This is part two in this series for troubleshooting your network connectivity. Confirming the connectivity with the Internet was the focus of the first three steps in our process. We now continue with the remaining steps to help you discover what the problem with your Internet connection might be.

1. Check functionality. Once the network cable has been confirmed to be working correctly, we need to see if the router is working correctly. Since you have already unplugged and re-plugged the router in and rebooted both it and your PC, that should have taken care of any automatic configuration issues that might have become hung up. High speed Internet providers can change the network address (also called the IP address) of your router at any time. This usually requires a re-boot of your router (and sometimes of your PC) in order to pick up that new address and begin communicating. Also, there are other network addresses that are used to get outside to the Internet that are automatically configured as well, but we will deal with those in a later step.

2. Test functionality. If after you have rebooted the router and PC and performed all of the steps above, but it appears that you are still having problems, make sure that you try other ways to get outside to the Internet by launching your email program (if you use one). If it works, but your Internet browser still does not, then something is preventing your Internet browser from resolving website addresses on the Internet.

3. Check virus software. When was the last time your PC performed an automatic update or a scan for viruses? Can you try to force an update now? Is it successful? If it has been a week since the last check for viruses, run a full system scan. If this does not work and no viruses are detected, move on to the next steps.

4. Try another system. Do you have another PC or laptop that you can plug in to your router to try and get out to the Internet, or do you know anyone else with a laptop PC who would be willing to bring it over to see if they can plug into your router and get out to the Internet? If so, that will confirm if you have a good working router and cabling. If you or they are able to get out to the Internet, then the problem lies with the original PC you were troubleshooting.

5. If you cannot get out to the Internet with another PC or Laptop, contact your Broadband Service Provider. Work with their support staff to troubleshoot the connectivity issue.

6. Final options. If all else fails, take your PC to another location like a friend's house or a relative who has high speed Internet access. Plug into their system and see if the PC will access the Internet. Another option is to take your PC to a local shop to have it examined for any virus or spyware software that is not being detected but is preventing you from accessing the Internet. Usually, these local PC repair companies have the software tools to help detect and eradicate these problems.

Trouble-shooting a connection for your PC can be a frustrating thing to do because there are so many variables to address. Be patient, and follow the above steps and hopefully you will find the source of your problem sooner rather than later.

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