Your friends at SynchroNet are always available to help you with your data security issues ... especially as they pertain to financial information. Since the proverbial 'ounce of prevention' is always preferable to the 'pound of cure,' here are a a few security measures that will go a long way toward keeping your business data out of the wrong hands.

Handing your credit card to a cashier, repeating your credit card information over the phone to a customer service representative, or entering your information online ... these moments require your trust and confidence that any charges arising from the transaction will be legitimate.

When you think about risks to your business network ... what comes to mind? Hackers? A server meltdown? Data loss? That would be an understandable response, but actually those aren't risks. Instead, they are properly understood as "threats." So what's the difference, you ask? (Or pretend you did.