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vendredi 15 septembre 2017

Jobs Are Out There For Desktop Tech Support Companies

By William Bell


Most people utilize hand-held devices these days, with even laptops fast becoming a thing of the past. The average household has no real need for a PC set up, as most smart televisions can perform tasks such as gaming or video streaming. However, the PC is still the technology of preference in most offices, so there is still plenty of security for desktop tech support companies.

Most corporations have lowered the number of people they keep on hand. While there may be fewer opportunities available in IT departments, the same tasks have now been outsourced to corporations specializing in setting up and maintaining other corporate networks. As a rule, they set up cyber-safe Intranet systems where most employees do not have access to the World Wide Web at all during their work day.

It was the cyber security risk that really pushed the Intranet concept. While it would seem that lack of outside access would help keep employees honest, the ever present hand-held devices means employees are still difficult to supervise. In fact, many employees were more productive when corporations allowed outside access because they knew their own IT departments were always watching.

One tactic some companies have implemented to prevent loss of productivity is lessening the amount of privacy for everyone. Cubicle walls have gone from eight-to-ten foot cloth monoliths to two-foot separations between coworkers, facing one-another. The family dining set up for group projects is also a popular office design these days, allowing everyone who works on the same projects to communicate face-to-face throughout the day.

Fortunately, the Intranet system has kept many corporations cocooned from threats to their own data, as well as information about employees and clients. Often offices will need to share the work for a period of time with home offices, and this task is often overseen by their IT vendor. An administrator will schedule the data dump for some particular time after office hours, but the oversight is done off-sight as part of a service contract.

Many modern cyber attacks are actually performed by members of the Press, and they use hacker tricks to accomplish their goals. Phishing is a common method used by anyone attempting to hack into an account, whether it is an individual or a company. In modern corporate cyber security threats, phishing via a back door email channel an employee may be allowed to utilize to communicate with a family member is not uncommon.

Anyone who is permitted such outer-office communication must be on their guard for this type of trickery. Corporate secrets, recipes, memorandums, or new developments can all be accessed by a savvy hacker with a good enough mock-up website. Anyone allowed to utilize back doors at work in order to communicate with family should avoid opening any emails other than from those people.

Any emails that seem questionable, even if they appear to come from a reliable source, should be reported to an IT vendor immediately. In fact, it should be flagged and not forwarded, allowing the vendor to access the email remotely. Your IT vendors have people on staff who are trained to recognize the most up-to-date security threats, and they may even be able to trace such messages to their source.




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