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Zoom , the popular web meeting and collaboration platform, was caught up in the same whirlwind the rush to "work from home" created. Zoom went from 10 million average users to 200 million and grew from a meeting platform to an essential service. Zoom can't be held responsible for the manner in which it is used outside of its intended purpose. The same...

The Free N2Net Work from Home (WfH) Kit  For the last 10 days or so, we have been reaching out on subjects that concern businesses running a work from home program. We've been speaking to our customers who tell us they kind of know what this should look like, but since IT is not their main business, they are unsure.  If that describes you, we have a pretty comprehensive set of tools we’ve gathered from our vendors....

Microsoft offers No guarantees Microsoft doesn’t guarantee access to your data, or its Office 365 online services.  But don’t take our word for it, here is what Microsoft has to say in subsection b, under Section 6 of the Office 365 agreement: “We strive to keep the Services up and running; however, all online services suffer occasional disruptions and outages, and Microsoft is not liable for any disruption or loss you may suffer...

A day that will live in infamy. “January 21st” (2019) he said. “ I couldn’t believe it! I come in from a great weekend spent watching playoff football, get in the office at 8am, and ALL of my sites (3 plants in Lorain County, Ohio and one in North Carolina) are locked down with RANSOMWARE!!” This is a real conversation with one of our longtime customers, Fortunately...

Has employees working from home, increased your data security risk? In the panic to create an out of office, or work from home environment, we found many employers resorted to allowing employees to use their personal devices. This scenario means corporate data now resides on devices that lack an equivalent level of security as their corporate counterparts. IT Departments, and managers can be certain that these...

As employees and businesses settle into their work from home reality, it is becoming apparent that existing policies and procedures were geared toward the main office. The long-standing attitude has been that these policies extended to the remote worker, since remote work was often one or two days a week. Remote employees are now the norm, not the exception. It would be easy to become complacent and...

Covid-19 forced many companies into a hastily cobbled together work from home environment. Can you relate to this? In order to avoid the network slowdown, your employees get up early, connect to the company VPN, the connection is responsive, so they dig into their work. An hour or so goes by, and they notice that files are taking longer to open, they begin to experience web pages taking longer...

Like all of you, Covid-19 has shaken up our world!  N2Net has been a service provider of all things Voice-Data-Cloud for over 25 years. Based in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, we provide critical infrastructure for our clients: E911 services, dedicated business internet and phone solutions, cloud-based servers and desktops as well as web facing services for e-commerce. Because we provide these services and provide in house engineering support services in our Network Operations Center (NOC)…...

Are you remote workers keeping your company data separated?                 Many companies had work from home solutions in place, prior to the Covid-19 crisis. Those companies who didn’t, had to scramble to find a solution.  In the rush to allow employees remote access, data security may have been overlooked or tossed to the side.                 Now that your employees can work from home, it is time to focus on ensuring that your data...