Why your business needs a website.
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- People use the Internet for research, communication, and trading goods and services.
- It has all but replaced faxes, letter correspondence and user guides.
- It has open doors for new or ancient businesses, big and small.
- Your website can be accessible from any location in the world.
- Your matching email address promotes your business.
- Your website offers your services and products to the world 24 hours a day.
- It is the most inexpensive and widespread marketing tool for your business.
- You can update your company info in the quickest and cheapest way possible.
- You do not want to limit your business to your immediate locale while the whole world is just a keystroke away.
- You gain credibility by having an Internet presence.
- To promote your business and to attract new customers.
- To display your credentials to prospects.
- To showcase the work of your business.
- Your potential clients can remember the name of your website better than your phone number.
- Increasingly your potential clients will look at your company’s online presence before doing any business with you.
- To provide existing customers with detailed product information.
- Adding your website address and email to your business cards, stationery, brochures, flyers, vehicle, sign boards, buildings, t-shirts, caps and so on can increase the effectiveness of your advertising.
- Currently there are over a billion Internet users in the world. You cannot afford not to have one. Few will tell you that there is no benefit to be had from using the Internet.
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Is your Windows secure? – part two
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- Passwords. It is suggested to use password protected screen savers, and the use of ‘Ctrl-alt-del’ combination of keys on keyboard for user logon though in the remote desktop environment users do not have to push the keys of the keyboard physically in order to logon. Use complex or strong passwords to logon the systems. A combination of alphabets in upper and lower cases, numeric, special characters should be used in a reasonably long password of more than eight characters long for extra security. Passwords must be changed regularly and should not be re-used.
- User Accounts. The account can be locked if there is an attempt to access the system fails to get through the password for more than a certain amount of tries. Enforce account lockout and user re-login requirement if the computer has been inactive for a certain amount of time. User login and password are always required to access the network or computer at all times. User accounts must be deleted or disabled when no longer required. Other accounts such as test accounts, duplicate accounts and shared accounts must be deleted from the system as well.
- Services. All nonessential systems, processes and functions must be disabled or turned off. In fact this is one of the first tasks to harden a server. The services that the operating systems run in the background can be the main targets for attacks. These services provide unseen applications that invite attackers to attack. Services also are linked to open Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports. Avoid installing applications on the server unless they are absolutely necessary to the server’s function.
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