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Hey Folks! Welcome to Know Tech Talk with Barb. Tips, Advice and Consulting for your Business's IT. I am your host Barb Paluszkiewicz, and for those of you taking notes Paluszkiewicz is spelled the exact way it sounds Paluszkiewicz:)

Today we're talking about how to how to create a computer –telecommunications disaster recovery plan aka business continuity plan for your business phone system. Keeping your phones safe and secure because very few business can continue operating without their phones. Business continuity / disaster recovery is quite the hot button these days since cyber attacks are on the rise, and mother nature is always angry with some part of the world. Companies, big and small and executives of all ages are incorporating disaster recovery and business continuity plans for their servers, PC's, and now we're adding phones and voice data to be part of the business continuity plan. Because if you have no phone, when there's something strange, and it don't look good, who are you going to call???

Network security has been forced to evolve, as attacks have shifted from attacking the network directly to infecting systems inside the network, typically by exploiting vulnerabilities in applications and servers; or by taking advantage of social engineering to gain a foothold through email and compromised websites. Over time, organizations have been forced to add additional network security appliances to their network perimeter for intrusion prevention, web filtering, anti-spam and remote access (VPN). The UTM (Unified Threat Management) appliance evolved out of the burden of managing an array of network security products.

We use the internet every day, all the computers in the office are connected to the internet and our computers are home to our data, whether it be personal or business. How do you keep the internet bad guys out and let the good guys in? Today Tony Leggio from SOPHOS chats with Barb Paluszkiewicz about Firewalls and Unified Threat Management.

Endpoint Protection - The new and improved antivirus! You may think that you have Antivirus software, and you may remember installing it or paying for it to be installed… but when was the last time you updated your Antivirus software subscription? Today Brian Coffey chats with Barb Paluszkiewicz about threat intelligence, and how antivirus has evolved to keep up with the latest virus' and malware.

Everyone wants their computers to work, and more often than not we don't really "how" it all works, except when it breaks or you are looking at cutting back on expenses.

Today's show Barb Paluszkiewicz interviews Matthew Koenig from Rapid Fire Tools. Mathew is the Director of North American Sales for RapidFire Tools. He travels educating IT consultants and MSP's companies about the different network assessment and scanning tools used to identify why companies are having the problems that they do and what the techs need to do to fix the problem.

Small and mid-sized businesses are experiencing high levels of risk of breach, with so many web-based platforms like HubSpot, LinkedIn, Smart home platforms, and so many more, it is typical for most of us to create logins to these with our business email address. So when an employee uses the same password for business and personal or mixes their business email with their personal lives how does that impact your business? We have a great show lined up today and we have Kevin Lancaster CEO of ID Agent. Kevin Lancaster is the CEO and Co-founder of ID Agent, the leading provider of Dark Web Intelligence and Identity Monitoring to thousands of businesses globally. Kevin has spent the last 15 years in technical entrepreneurship and consultancy to the public and private sectors. Most notably, he led the team to restore and protect the identities of 4.2 million government employees compromised by the most damaging data breach in U.S. history, on behalf of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Hey Folks! Welcome to Know Tech Talk with Barb. Tips, Advice and Consulting for your Business's IT. There is more data stored on cell phones and computers than ever before and the data is much more important than it used to be. How do you keep it all safe, especially when you can lose it all in a click?

We have a great show lined up today and we have Rob Rae from Datto. Rob is the VP of business development at Datto, he is a Mississauga Native and now travels the world on behalf of Datto educating managed service providers on how we can save and secure your business's data and IT systems. CDN Technologies is proud to be an approved Datto vendor, as Datto is the best provider of business continuity and data protection services. No matter where your data lives, Datto can protect it. So we're going to talk with Rob on how Datto protects your business data against Ransomware, virus's and people – cause there is always one person in the office that clicks everything!!