The US Senate has voted to allow our internet providers to sell consumers’ personal information to advertisers, without our consent.

Senator Bill Nelson said this is a gold mine of data, the Holy Grail so to speak. If this rule is eliminated, our privacy rights will be taken away from us.

We have recently introduced a fully automated help desk for clients to open and create their own tickets, monitor progress as we work on their issues, and make their own comments along the way.

We struggled for a long time to find program that totally fulfilled our need to handle every aspect of our clients’ needs when it came to requesting help.

In our continuing efforts to keep your information protected and secure, InfoStream has been notified of a new version of a product you may be using. Because backups are so critical to ensuring the protection of your data and therefore the success of your company, we wanted to make sure you were made aware of this information:

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The backup software you are using, “Symantec System Recovery” was recently split back off to a separate company, Veritas.

Friday, October 21st, 2016: InfoStream was proud to sponsor and be a part of the Wild Pants Party. A fashion show, a chance to see local celebrities decked out in their finest, designed to raise awareness and support for The Arc of Palm Beach County.

This year’s party was again at the Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Gardens, allowing more of the public to get involved in the festivities as well.

InfoStream is extremely honored that our president, Alan Crowetz, has been selected as one of this year’s American Free Enterprise Companion Medalists. The award is presented by Palm Beach Atlantic University and “honors individuals whose hard work and achievement exemplify the best of the American free enterprise system.

Did you realize that your personal information might be less personal than you think when you are shopping, or even when you are simply using your phone?

Alan Crowetz, Internet Security Expert for WPTV was interviewed this week by the TV channel and says that we are probably unaware of 99% of the tracking that is being done.

I’d like to say it was an amazingly fantastic day. After all, today was the day you chose to do a ride-along with me. I’d love to have you experience something spectacular that would make even national news reporters take note. That would be ironic though, since the idea was to experience a normal day in the life of a network engineer.

The biggest threat to your firm’s security, by far, is sitting in front of the keyboard – your staff. You can secure your firm like Fort Knox (virtual machine guns, 18” steel doors, guards everywhere) but… if a person that has access invites a bad guy in… it’s all for nothing.

We are seeing a wave of users who are being forced to upgrade to Windows 10.  They get a pop up that they can get the free Windows 10 upgrade installed, however, even if they click the "X" to close the windows, it then installs!

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