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How LA CPAs Benefit from a Security Threat Assessment

Apr 24, 2015

As an accounting professional, you spend much of your time analyzing your clients’ fiscal stability and providing insights as to their readiness to weather the road ahead. With your expertise into the strategies which keep businesses afloat, and ...

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3 Easy Ways LA Investment Advisors Increase Tech ROI

Apr 23, 2015

The printer company Brother recently teamed up with SCORE, a non-profit business association, to determine what entrepreneurs see as being the best return on investment (ROI). Out of 500 U.S. companies that responded to their survey, 72% anticipate ...

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IT Security Mistakes Made by Manufacturers and Distributors

Apr 21, 2015

IT may stand for information technology, but the whole value proposition of IT for Los Angeles manufacturers and distributors is to improve your business by increasing revenue or decreasing costs. Naturally, a couple of side benefits include having ...

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How LA CPAs Save Money Using Thin Clients

Apr 20, 2015

Over the past few years, businesses have worked to take advantage of virtual desktops by leveraging thin clients for many compelling reasons. Some of the benefits of this sort of client/server configuration include: Reduced desk-side support ...

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3 Reasons LA Investment Advisors Need a Security Threat Assessment

Apr 17, 2015

These days, every business faces a certain level of exposure to Internet-based threats. Given the serious consequences of a data breach, financial services firms in particular have a duty to limit or manage these threats to the fullest extent ...

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How Distributors Use Vulnerability Testing to Protect Company Assets

Apr 16, 2015

What could possibly go wrong today for Los Angeles companies who manufacture, distribute, or wholesale goods and services? From an IT perspective, just about everything! Databases, servers, workstations, tablets, phones, scanners, warehousing ...

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Why CPAs in LA Must Prioritize Network Penetration Testing

Apr 14, 2015

With vulnerability assessments, an expert explores a network, website, or application, and locates a certain amount of potential exposures based on a set of goals. You take some pictures, report back on what you saw, and life goes on. Network ...

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3 Mobile Security Best Practices for LA Investment Advisors

Apr 13, 2015

LA investment advisors rely on smartphones, tablets, and laptops because they enable busy financial professionals to conduct business from anywhere and at any time. But this valuable portability also makes these devices easier to lose or steal, ...

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6 Must Read Tips for LA Distributors on Network Penetration Testing

Apr 11, 2015

They want to get inside your IT systems. Theft, control, and sabotage are all motivations for attackers seeking to exploit “attack paths” leading them to your data assets, your bank accounts and your system super-user privileges. Those attack paths ...

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iPhone Mobile Security Tips for LA CPAs

Apr 09, 2015

Up until about a year ago, iPhone users walked around with their Apple devices, fiercely proud of how their devices never seemed to get hacked. Then out of the blue, a number of celebrities had their iCloud accounts breached. Millions of iPhone ...

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3 Data Security Best Practices for LA Investment Advisors

Apr 07, 2015

For Los Angeles investment advisors, protecting data from information thieves and malware infiltration is a number one priority. The Anthem and Target breaches have demonstrated how vulnerable businesses can be to compromise, and investment firms ...

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