Planning For The Unprecedented: How Ashton Helped Clients Quickly Transition To Life During Lockdown
Planning For The Unprecedented: How Ashton Helped Clients Quickly Transition To Life During Lockdown Insight is one of our core values. We believe that serving our clients means more than just responding to challenges; it means anticipating and preparing for them too. So in January, around the time that China sealed off the city of […]
How Much is ‘Free’ WiFi Costing You?
How Much is ‘Free’ WiFi Costing You? Would you give away your birthday? Your travel details? Your home address? Your phone number? Well, a couple of weeks ago, a security researcher in the UK was looking around online when he came across yet another company that had joined the 100 million club. That’s the name […]
Why a Technology Business Review is VITAL
Why a Technology Business Review is VITAL Identifying opportunities in all areas of business is vital for growth. However, one area that’s often overlooked is technology. Although it’s tempting to adopt an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” attitude with IT, conducting regular technology business reviews is necessary if you want to achieve your […]
Tip of the Week: Phishing Training Has to Be a Priority
Tip of the Week: Phishing Training Has to Be a Priority When reading through Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report, you will quickly get the notion that phishing attacks are some of the most prevalent cyberattacks. With a vastly increased remote workforce, this still holds true. It, then, becomes extremely important that your business does a […]
Protecting Your Company During COVID-19: Guidance for CIOs and CISOs
Protecting Your Company During COVID-19: Guidance for CIOs and CISOs Organizations have been battling for years to ensure services (particularly when internet-facing) are protected by multi-factor authentication (MFA) and only accessible with centrally-managed corporate accounts. Doing this well is a challenge at the best of times and requires IT staff to have intricate knowledge of […]
April 2nd ZoomBomb Update
Dear Chad- I would imagine that, like many, you’ve recently become intimately familiar with remote work solutions like Teams, Zoom, Skype, Facetiime, etc. Here at Ashton, we’ve always been big fans of Microsoft Teams, and with our engineers working remotely these days, we’ve come to rely on it even more. Daily team meetings at 8AM, […]
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Using Microsoft Teams for Remote Collaboration
Using Microsoft Teams for Remote Collaboration Many of Ashton’s clients are experimenting with large scale remote work for the first time. The greatest challenge for many is how to best collaborate when you no longer have the ability to walk down the hall to talk with a colleague. I’d like to take a moment to […]
Working Remotely with Sophos Firewalls and VPN
Working Remotely with Sophos Firewalls and VPN As the need to work remotely has quickly overwhelmed much of the workforce, Sophos has helped the Ashton Technology Solutions team provide our clients with remote work capabilities far more easily, and in far less time, than we originally anticipated. Sophos’ built-in SSL VPN client with unlimited users, […]
Disinfecting Your Technology Devices
Disinfecting Your Technology Devices Over the past week, we’ve had a few clients call to ask about the best ways to sanitize and disinfect technology devices such as smart phones and keyboards. Since we’re in the technology business and not the healthcare business, we decided to do a little research and post some helpful links […]
