Welcome to hurricane season 2018! As many of you are aware, hurricane season for 2018 begins June 1 and ends November 30. What does this mean for businesses? Outages, Internet interruptions, server, network, and computer downtime, all of which can translate into a loss of profits. But there are ways to mitigate and or to avoid these kinds of situations: this...
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As we go into the weekend, we would like to introduce you to something in the IT world known as Read-Only Fridays.Read-only Fridays is a term that the IT industry uses for no major changes to any infrastructure when approaching the weekend. The reason why a simple: support hours from the vast majority of manufacturers are usually Monday through Friday...
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What better way to beat your competition than to know what they are working on and then steal it? What am I talking about? Corporate espionage. Corporate Espionage and Data Breaches Corporate espionage takes many forms, but what we are seeing recently is a tremendous amount of businesses sending in – for lack of better words – spies to their competition and...
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You may have heard of compensation agreements for new employees, but for signing up with an IT firm? Triton Technologies prides itself on its many different types of clients, entities, and governmental bodies in which we do work for. Sometimes we are approached with questions or requirements for "compensation agreements" to be met for them to sign on with us. What...
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Since we became a Cloudflare partner, we’ve been asked multiple times: What is a DDoS? The Rundown on DDoS Attacks A DDoS is a distributed denial of service attack. Years ago when a business needed to get online, they purchased web hosting services through many web hosting companies. It was usually on a single server for the client, shared between multiple other clients...
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Why do we recommend a VPN when you have nothing to hide? With the end of net neutrality, ISPs and Internet providers have now free reign to do as they please with on how you receive your data. We’ve already seen it with our commercial clients on how to access their services. A Matter of Priority A prime example is prioritization of the...
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A lot of businesses – good or bad – sometimes just shoot from the hip. They make up ideas, policies, and methodologies to suit the immediate need. Sounds good in theory but has very bad scalability. Why IT Policy and Procedure is So Important A Triton technologies we have ex-military for the majority of our administrative staff. The reason why is that we have a...
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From time to time, we get clients who wish to purchase their own hardware but have us implement the solution. Most of the time we have no issue with this, but when we encounter a computer that was specifically purchased to save money, knowing that it will alienate the client with their lack of performance, we must advise them that...
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Why terms and conditions matter. It has been proven time and time again that people and companies do not read the terms and conditions when accepting the installation or the acceptance of services from vendors. There are many notable cases including some software companies and vetting the fact that they now own your children just as a joke. But in the...
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I am literally writing this blog on January 4, 2018, during what is known as the bomb cyclone. My offices have no power, no Internet; backup batteries have been expended; cellular towers are down. So why am I talking about this on a business blog? Keeping Your Servers Up When the Power and Internet is Down Quite simply is a lesson in environmental...
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