Click here to see a library of useful PDF documents for your home or business, including:

·         Cyber Threats to Mobile Devices

·         Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet

·         Securing Your Web Browser

·         Avoiding Email Scams

·         Spyware

·         Recovering from a Trojan Horse or Virus

·         Understanding VoIP

·         Malware Threats

·         Computer Forensics

Produced by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).

Renee Halgerson
Marketing Specialist
SDN Communications

Hackers target businesses large and small. Security breaches can have a major financial impact on your business and can also lead to lost consumer confidence in your brand, increased employee downtime, legal costs and public relations and marketing expenditures.

Often, small to medium businesses do not have the internal staff to proactively monitor and manage network security. Many of these businesses turn to Managed IT Services, like Total Care Solutions from SDN Communications.

Services like firewall monitoring and management, off-site data protection and server recovery, and network monitoring and management from an outside vendor can provide security for your valuable data. This allows you to focus on keeping your business running day-to-day.

Benefits of working with a managed IT service provider include:

·         Access to Network Security Experts – providers that focus on network security have a team of experts that monitor against network threats 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

·         Increase Consumer Confidence – consumers that know their information will be safe have more trust in your business.

·         Simple, Secure and Cost-Effective Duplication and Storage of Information – never worry about losing your data again.

When you start thinking about the data you have about your customers, you begin to understand the value that it has. What do you want to make sure is protected? Credit card information, birth dates, and contact information, are all examples of data that have been compromised, placing a business and its customers at risk.

If you would like to visit with an expert to find out if outsourcing proactive network security solutions is right for your business, contact SDN Communications at 402-397-0695 or visit www.sdncommunications.com/total-care-solutions.

Julie Hoyer
Marketing Specialist

You may have heard about the recent attack on the hugely popular micro-blogging site twitter.com.  The attack was a DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service attack.  Basically, it was a bunch of PC’s infected with malware, all trying to access twitter.com at once until the service crashed.

DDoS can happen at any time, to any business.  Here are some key lessons to be learned that you should implement in your network (with more in the attached article from PC Magazine):
-Install security software on every PC in your network and pay for the updates
-Run regular PC scans for malware
-Stop doing risky things online and put in place a company-wide IT policy supporting this

Here is the PC Magazine linke with more practical tips: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351317,00.asp

- Jered Schock
Sr. Account Executive
SDN Technologies