Everyone uses email to send and receive sensitive information, making it an attractive target for cyberattacks. The importance of email security is vital to your company’s operations, so applying the following tips can dramatically reduce your exposure to hackers and malware.
How you keep your email account safe
How big data helps lower hospital readmission rates
Mistakes sometimes happen in the medical world, leading to missed diagnoses, improper self-medication, and, inevitably, hospital readmissions. But business intelligence (BI) is changing that by equipping healthcare professionals with powerful real-time information.
Simple ways to stretch your laptop battery life
One of the top considerations in choosing where to work with your laptop is the availability of a power socket. If you are not lucky enough to find an available outlet, you’ll have to depend on your laptop’s battery — assuming it still has enough power after your last charge.
Web conversion done right in 5 steps
Are there surefire ways to attract prospects to your website and to convince them to sign up for your product or service? The first step is always to make your website easy to use. Read on for five tips that improve user experiences, site trustworthiness, and conversion rates.
The threat of distributed spam distraction
You wouldn’t think that cybercriminals would carry out their nefarious schemes in plain sight — except that they do and you’ve probably already fallen victim to them. Learn all about a scheme called distributed spam distraction (DSD) and how malicious actors are using it to steal valuable information from their victims.
SMB Cybersecurity: What to Know
The pandemic has created a rise in remote work, online shopping, and people becoming more digitally connected than ever. While these trends can be seen as positive changes, there is also a lot of potential for negative impact.
The biggest issue being that cyberattacks have since skyrocketed.
5 Ways to optimize your new laptop
So you’ve just unboxed your brand new laptop — what do you do next? Before you start using it to surf the internet or finish your tasks for the day, take these steps to optimize its performance and ensure it meets your needs.
1. Update your laptop’s operating system
One of the first things you should do before using your laptop is to update its operating system (OS). Assuming you did not purchase the laptop when it was first released, it will still be running an older OS. Because important patches and fixes are released with each new update, you must install the latest ones to ensure your laptop doesn’t have vulnerabilities that malicious third parties can exploit.
Dalton Petsch Earns CompTIA Security+ Certification

August 2020 - Connecting Point’s Dalton Petsch recently received his CompTIA Security+ Certification which is a core certification for IT security professionals. This certification track provides expertise and training around the latest trends in risk management, risk mitigation, threat management and intrusion detection.
Connecting Point Named Among the Top Global Managed IT Services Providers
Use Gmail with ease with these 5 tips
Gmail’s email management interface is a crowd favorite, owing to its pleasant aesthetics and intuitive design. But did you know that you can still take your Gmail experience up a notch? Try the following tricks.
Undo Send
In the fast-paced world of business, mistakes happen.