According to a recent study, 34% of businesses now carry Cyber Security Insurance. This percentage continues to rise year to year as the cyber security risks also continue to rise. According to a 2020 survey posted on statstica.com the number one threat to businesses is...
Microsoft releases a major release to Windows 10 twice per year. They patch monthly (or on demand for high priority security threats) but the major releases come in the spring and fall. As a reminder, Microsoft is not planning a Windows 11. Windows 10 is the long-term release and...
A part of doing business is complying with regulations. Regulations come from various places, primarily governments but also from industries. The major credit card providers teamed up to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) as an example of an industry-led regulation. On the government side...
First and foremost, we hope everyone is safe and coping with the current state of affairs. Colden Company is a service-based organization and we are here to help in any way we can. One of the most common requests we have received recently, to no one’s surprise, is...
Often times current events spark businesses to consider scenarios they had not put much thought into previously. Y2K, as an example, forced many businesses to upgrade their system to handle the changing of the century. Ransomware in the news helped to raise awareness of the...
It is 2020. Wow. It seems like just yesterday we were preparing for Y2K. The cyber world is a very different place than it was twenty years ago. In 2000, there were 361 million Internet users. Today there are well over four billion. Some of those four billion are bad...
Starting January 15th, 2020 Microsoft will begin rolling out a new version of their Edge browser. This is a substantial change from the current browser in that it is Chromium based and de-coupled from Windows updates. Chromium is an open-source browser that is used as...
In August, New York State signed into law the SHIELD Act or the “Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security” Act. This is an enhancement to New York States previous law and has several keys points that anyone doing business in New York should take note of. This...
Microsoft releases two major updates to Windows 10 each year. The second one for the calendar year 2019 is set for release. (version 1909) As with most releases you may notice your disk space fluctuate as Microsoft is pushing down the release in advance of deployment. Also, as with...
Microsoft PowerPoint has been a staple for presenters for many years. PowerPoint was first released in 1987, acquired by Microsoft shortly thereafter (for $14 million, imagine what it would sell for today!) and has been going strong ever since. There has been quite a bit of functionality added over...