Tech Trends of 2016 – What’s Hot and New

Can you believe 2016 is almost here? With a new year comes emerging and improved tech trends just waiting to be utilized and reviewed. It’s no surprise then that the forecasters are already eagerly predicting the hottest tech trends of 2016. Among the heap of realized 2015 trends, we saw a surge in the use …

What Is a Firewall and How Does It Defend Our Information?

What is a firewall? Since firewalls have been in the news recently, this is a question you may be asking. While your data lies on a server somewhere up in the cloud, what exactly is protecting it from ruthless marauders? What is this great beacon of security? Well, you can think of a firewall as …

What Is Encryption And How Does It Protect Our Information?

Presidential candidates are talking about it. It’s all over the news. So you may be asking yourself, what is encryption? To understand encryption you must first think about how we communicate. In its most basic human form communication is done face-to-face through some kind of spoken or unspoken language. Two parties interact and data is …

Discover The Right Storage Device For You

Tis the season for snow storms, downpours and power outages. If these acts of Mother Nature have you in full on panic mode, it’s best to protect yourself by backing up all your valuable data NOW.  So how do you proceed? Well, let’s start with the basics. What is a storage device?  It’s a piece …

How Secure Is My Password?

How secure is my password? These days, without a strong password you are seriously at risk of exposing vital information to nefarious script kiddies, so you may be asking, “How secure is my password?” The old “abc123” just won’t cut it! In fact, it’s no secret that the number of times you’ve lost that password …

Best Tech Gifts 2015

While you’re probably still giddy from all that successful Cyber Monday shopping, (we know you scored yourself a sweet hover board) it’s time to think about the best tech gifts 2015. We suspect you’ll score big brownie points if you plop down those greens for some exceedingly cool and practical tech gifts this holiday season. …