Technology Insights

The typical hotel and conference center leverages a multitude of technology applications and platforms. They incorporate several automation processes, from Point of Sale (POS)terminals that handle food and beverage orders to a mobile app that provides real-time response to their guests every need. The applications may or may not be fully integrated.

In an era with billions of social media users who share everything from what they are eating to where they are going, cyber attackers have found a new way to penetrate these channels: a method commonly referred to as spear phishing. This blog post will explore what it is, how individuals are fooled by it and how we can help.

If you don’t have a Security Operations Center (SOC) in place at your company, you are not alone. Some 44% of all US businesses are without one, too. Whether you run a small, medium or large business, these centers are an important element in keeping cyber criminals at bay. Outlined below is a SOC definition, why it makes sense to look at one and how ProActive Technology Group can help with the implementation.

You may be under the impression that emails are relatively secure. You have been schooled on phishing and know not to open any suspicious PDFs or click on fake URLs. But that aside, your internal and external emails are still vulnerable to interception by hackers that are listening or sniffing on your network. Confidential information can include business plans, documents, designs, sketches, source code, trade secrets and medical/financial records.

We’ve reached the point in the discussion around the benefits of solid-state drives (SSDs) versus hard disk drives (HDDs) in broad terms from a perspective of benefits, the perspective of general comparison, and from the standpoint of analogies and general technology.

As New York City is recovering from the latest winter storm and gale-force winds, we thought it only appropriate to remind you, our readership, about the importance of protecting your smartphones, tablets and laptops from long-term cold exposure. Below are the negative effects extreme weather can have on your devices and the 10 things you can do to minimize the impact.