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John Black

A professional fast learner, with experience in the IT management, capable of technical troubleshooting to identify and solve problems.

How hospitals are keeping patient data secure

Given the wealth of sensitive personal data healthcare organizations process and store, it’s no surprise that hospitals, medical offices, and other healthcare systems are prime targets for cybercrime. In 2014, an estimated 85 percent of large healthcare organizations faced a data breach, and one in five of those breaches cost the organization more than $1 …

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Internet of Things security primer

The Internet of Things (IoT) provides convenience, comfort, and cost savings through a vast and growing collection of connected devices ranging from HVAC systems and printers to fitness trackers, medical devices, and automobiles. And not surprisingly, those benefits are attracting the attention of businesses big and small. “The alluring promise of an improved bottom line will encourage businesses to focus on IoT,” predicts HP Chief Technology Officer, Shane Wall. “It can lower operating costs, increase productivity, and help businesses expand into new markets or offer new products.” While it is true that IoT devices can help businesses drive improvements in areas such as operations, staff performance, and the customer experience, a serious issue bubbles below all of that promise: security.   Source : http://www8.hp.com/us/en/TechnologyAtWork/internet-of-things-security-primer.html?flexfield10=031705

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Don’t overlook your monitor

For some, the term “tech innovation” brings to mind new PC form factors and unique printing methods. But high-tech innovation doesn’t stop at hardware—it also includes displays. In recent years, display innovation has produced heightened resolution, connectivity, functionality, and ROI. Displays are sleek, stylish, more robust, and thoughtfully aligned with today’s dynamic, agile, and collaborative work spaces. Designed to drive work teams, the latest iterations of this oft-overlooked, but critical technology can boost your performance, productivity, and efficiency. Source : https://h41369.www4.hp.com/taw/article/ID/GB/TAW_001219?hprpt_id=TAW_001219

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6 stupid office rules that should be banned

Rules in the workplace. Without them we’d have anarchy. Or would we? According to an article by Dr Travis Bradbury in the Huffington Post most companies fall into the trap of instigating morale sapping rules for every employee based upon the inconsiderate actions of a small minority of transgressors. Hardly seems fair does it? Anyway, in this article, Dr B has outlined nine dumb directives and I have featured my top six… 1. Banning use of social platforms – now I think we would all accept the need to restrict access to some of the more (shall we say) ‘unsavoury’ sites available on the internet but why do some companies insist upon stopping access to the likes of LinkedIn, Facebook and Snap? The commonly held belief is that social media stifles efficiency but there is a counter-argument that these platforms are incredibly useful tools in the work environment – for example scoping someones profile whilst checking them out …

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9 Windows DNS Mistakes to Avoid

If you are running DNS services on a Windows server, then you’ve probably got Active Directory running, your DNS servers are also your domain controllers, and you have your clients configured to use their nearest DC for DNS. That’s a good start, but there are several misconfigurations in DNS that come up again and again. Let’s review nine mistakes that can cause problems with any network environment when DNS server is not configured correctly. 1. Setting up the lonely island When you set up your first domain controller in a forest, you really have no choice but to point the server to itself for DNS. However, don’t leave it that way, or do that for any other server. As soon as your second domain controller is up and running, reconfigure the first to use the second for DNS, and the second to use the first. Once you build a third, add …

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Free speed boost your PC

Why does a window slow down with age? There are many reasons, not least of which is that over time it has to cope with the demands of more and more installed programs, each new program you install take up space on the hard disk, user memory and may use space to create files and documents. Some programs such as antivirus tools start when windows lads and each of these uses a share of the PC’s available memory, hard disk space and processor resources. They can also make windows take forever to start by jostling for position and trying to load while windows itself is trying to get its house in order. If there are lots of programs running, eventually there comes a time when memory runs low and windows has resort to using free hard disk space as extra virtual memory, this is much slower than real memory and …

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Better Bathrooms

Bathroom is actually as the most important thing for you as human being. Many kinds of bathroom accessories are available at betterbathrooms.com and these include bathroom furniture, Bathroom accessories that you can consider for safety, comfort and an independent bathing experience. You are sure to find matching products so your bathroom flows nicely together. Bathroom furniture, toilet seats, shower enclosures and toilet paper dispensers are just a few things you will find in various styles and finishes. Having everything you needs easily accessible in the betterbathrooms.com will increase your satisfaction. If you plan to set the perfect equipment up in your bathroom, you just need to make sure that you do not forget to install the proper and suitable bathroom products such as shower enclosure, bathroom suites, toilets or other bathroom accessories. Buying bathroom accessories in case there are even insignificant chips or cracks on its surface. Choosing a bathroom …

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Cloud Computing with Windows

By Roger Jennings Wiley Publishing, Inc.| English | 363 pages | PDF | 7.420 KB | Download | Password: cloud Cloud computing became a hot topic in mid-2008 and, by mid-2009, had achieved top buzzword status. As proof of its popularity, a mid-August 2009 search on Bing.com for ‘‘cloud computing’’ returned 92 million hits. Hardly a week goes by that doesn’t include at least one cloud computing conference somewhere around the globe. The term cloud computing implies access to remote computing services offered by third parties via a TCP/IP connection to the public Internet. The cloud symbol in a network diagram, which initially represented any type of multiuser network, came to be associated specifically with the public Internet in the mid-1990s. The preceding definitions encompass almost all common Internet-based activities, ranging from individuals sending e-mail messages and viewing Web pages to retailers processing credit and debit card charges for online …

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