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Why a Good Incident Response Time Will Save Your Company

A good incident response time can save you more than just hassle. After all, your business isn't just the goods and services you offer. It's also your reputation for keeping data safe, for how quickly you respond to your clients' and customers' needs, and for having your records in proper order. In the event of an IT disaster, how ready will your company be to protect itself and get back up and running? Having a recovery plan in place is a good start, but having a comprehensive plan built and implemented by IT security and recovery experts is vital to save your company's time and reputation.The majority of work done by businesses runs on computers these days. Websites, data management, marketing, and even payroll are largely paperless. This is great for quickly accessing and utilizing data, but what happens if the data itself is compromised? Outside attackers, insider hacking, and viruses are all realities of the modern business world. Your company specializes in its particular business. Your IT staff, if you have it, manages the broad use of your technological needs. But what about up-to-date security and response times? Having someone trained to assess your system, implement changes, and to constantly revise and reassess your business' needs is simply outside the scope of most IT employees. Finding an outside consultant who specializes in preventing IT disasters can ensure that you have a good incident response time, which can save your company if your system is attacked.Disaster Recovery Plan StepsOne important step to make sure you have a good incident response time is to have a disaster recovery plan that is updated and on-hand. This plan will prioritize your applications and business needs to ensure that in the event of an IT disaster, you can get your most critical systems back up as quickly as possible. Getting up and running in fifteen minutes versus being back in business hours or days later will save your company resources and customers, both of which directly affect your bottom line.A comprehensive plan of action is also preemptive. In order to make sure that your system is as safe as it can be and that your incident response time is quick, you should have your security, as well as your plan, reviewed and updated by a seasoned IT security professional. A consultant who does nothing but assist in security measures and in helping businesses get back up and running in the quickest time possible is one of the most valuable assets you can have. Without having to pay for a full- or even part-time employee, you can have access to a person with experience and up-to-date training who can limit your loss in the event of a successful attack or virus.Your company can't take the risk of being shut down due to poor incident response time. An experienced consultant can review your procedures and systems to ensure that your business is as safe as possible and has the best disaster plan available.	 	 		 			 				 					 						Daniel Gottilla senior consultant at Guidance Consulting, Inc. has been delivering profitable technology results to everything from small, private firms to Fortune 500 companies. Get more information: <a href="http://www.guidance-consulting.com" target="_new">http://www.guidance-consulting.com</a> <a href="http://blog.guidance-consulting.com" target="_new">http://blog.guidance-consulting.com</a>

Why a Good Incident Response Time Will Save Your Company

A good incident response time can save you more than just hassle. After all, your business isn't just the goods and services you offe...

Facebook Email gets a Cold Response from Majority

<img alt="Facebook Email gets a Cold Response from Majority" border="0" height="150" src="http://technologyforum.x10.mx/image//113496matter.jpg" width="200"> Just two days ago, Facebook released its unified "Social Inbox" where all the Facebook messages will be aggregated with e-mails. Yes, every Facebook user can get an example@facebook.com email ID. It was a rather daring move for Facebook to release an e-mail feature, given the massive prominence of e-mail providers like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo. But it could be a winning move too, given the oceanic 500 million subscribers that Facebook has. But would you really want to use Facebook for sending/receiving e-mails on a day-to-day basis? Would you shift your primary e-mail address to their service entirely? We asked this same question to our Techtree junta and this is what we've got till now. <img align="baseline" border="0" hspace="0" src="http://technologyforum.x10.mx/image//113496opinionpollresult.jpg"> At the time of writing this, a major 68 percent people expressed there negation towards moving to Facebook email. A small 18 percent Facebook loyalists said Yes, and another smaller 14 percent said they aren't entirely convinced and can't decide now (thus leaving the possibility for them to maybe make the shift in the future). We also asked people to state the reasons why they would or would not want to switch, and many had quite a firm opinion about their decision: Marex from Vadodara said, "Currently I am happy with my mail service, so I have no intentions of switching to another mail service. I already have many accounts to manage, one more would be asking for too much to handle."  Techtree reader Pradeep from Hyderabad is just one of many people who voiced his concern by saying, "Everyone knows about the security issues in facebook. So it would not be a wise decision to make the Facebook messaging system as the primary communication system." If you want to read all the insightful opinions given by our readers (or want to give yours), click here. So now, the initial consensus about the Facebook email feature doesn't seem to have that big a positive response. Do you think this will change once everybody starts using it? One good thing to derive out of it would be the need to log into different websites for communication - one of Facebook's major purposes. And although they try to give a sense of security to the user's data, something or the other has kept popping up in the past. Thus, many would be cautious over these security and privacy related aspects of using Facebook for email.   By the way, if you haven't voted, there's an opinion box to your right.

Facebook Email gets a Cold Response from Majority

Just two days ago, Facebook released its unified "Social Inbox" where all the Facebook messages will be aggregated with e-mails. Y...