Author: Mary Feury

Business IT and Security on Demand

Employees Sharing Information: Security Risk?

Business security isn’t just for securing your physical space. Solutions like cameras, alarm systems, card access, surveillance, and remote video guarding are very effective for securing your physical business space, indoor and out. But, what about sharing information and all of your internal company workplace documents and projects? Emailing those large files, and corresponding about…
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Remembering our Founder, Tim Feury

Many knew Tim Feury as a strategic commercial security partner, “out-of-the box” thinker, and a trusted client-focused advocate.  He had an insatiable curiosity into the latest and greatest of all things technological. Tim’s humility, charisma, and endearing sense of humor, gave him an amazing ability to “hold court” with any group, while ensuring everyone felt comfortable and entertained.  This fine mix of qualities made…
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Managed Access Control in the snowstorm

Benefits of Managed Access Control in the Snowstorm

As you probably know, or actually experienced, the Atlanta, Ga. area got dumped on with a few inches of snow and ice in late January. This storm made traffic and travel horrendous and took folks many hours, and even days, to get to their homes. Businesses found it necessary to quickly revise their normal building…
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CCTV Plays Important Role in Theft Deterrent

Remember the days when we could all leave our doors unlocked and businesses didn’t require every kind of security from Internet security to trained and skilled security officers manning the front and back door? Sadly, those days have gone, but there’s no need to fret. There are multiple ways of securing your place of business…
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Sending Encrypted eMail – Key Benefits (Part 7)

We’ve come to part 7 of our cloud computing benefits series. Today we’ll be looking at why sending encrypted email is an excellent example of wise cloud computing for your business. We’ve all seen them…the little blurb at the bottom of the email you may send or receive that contains all the legal jargon about…
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Insights into Virtual Infrastructure vs. On-Premise Solution (Part 6)

Here in Part 6 in our series on Cloud Computing Benefits, we’ll explore powerful alternatives to dedicated servers and on-premise machines. Let’s take a look at how employing hosted servers in a virtual infrastructure (also known as IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service) may have advantages for your business over using the traditional on-premise model.…
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Increasing Need for Network Security

There is a demand and increasing need for network security, especially with recent headlines continuously citing companies seeing security breaches and sensitive information being leaked or stolen.Major companies like Sony, Bank of America, Facebook, Twitter and others worth billions have seen multiple security breaches because of negligence to protect their information. Whether it’s a small…
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Top 7 Reasons To Consider Hosted VOIP For Your Business (Part 5)

Welcome to Part 5 of our 10-Part series on Cloud Computing Benefits. In this part, we’ll take a look at the top 7 reasons why employing a Hosted VOIP solution may be worth checking out for your business.   First of all, let’s define VOIP. Literally, VOIP is an acronym for Voice Over Internet Protocol.…
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Physical Premise to Network Security

Ever wonder why so many still seek out multiple vendors…one for their physical premise business security (including services like access control and camera surveillance) and another for their network security (for services like intrusion detection and virus protection?) We wondered the same thing. That’s why, here at Altec Systems, we deliberately decided to offer both…
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Cloud Based Email – Another Timely Desktop Cloud Benefit (Part 4)

We hope you have been finding the first few articles of our 10-part series on Cloud Computing Benefits useful and informative. In today’s Part 4, we’ll be focusing on Cloud based Email. Specifically, how does Hosted Microsoft Exchange® add value to you in your desktop cloud computing? Well-known Microsoft Exchange is the world’s foremost business…
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