You understand the paramount importance of cyber security. You also understand that the weakest link in your security efforts is often your own employees. Through negligence, oversight, and simple misunderstanding, the people using your IT are the ones exposing it to the greatest amount of risk. Luckily, there are ways you can improve user behavior… Read more »
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The “Human Factor” of Cyber Security – Part 1
In the knock down drag out battle between cyber security experts and the hackers tying to get around them, there remains one persistent weakness – the end user. Despite rapidly improving technologies, large scale automation capabilities, and an ever greater investment in cyber security, simple human error continues to be one of the most common… Read more »
Accounting Departments Expected to Grow in 2015
A recent survey from the company TaxTalent indicates that accounting departments will grow rapidly in 2015, particularly as they search for talent with tax expertise. The survey polled 365 respondents, and of those a full 69% said that they would be looking for more tax professionals. Perhaps even more significantly, this represents a 28% increase… Read more »
Is it Time for Your Company to Embrace Open Source?
Open source software has proved incredibly popular in the personal computing space with programs like Mozilla’s Firefox and Apache’s OpenOffice offering realistic competition to their proprietary counterparts. But in corporate settings it is much harder to find open source adoption. The reasons for that are complicated, but in almost all cases they boil down to… Read more »
Google Sends Phone Numbers to the Cloud
For as much as telephones and calling have advanced over the last 20 years, the technology still remains frustratingly limited. Businesses have to contend with labyrinth-like phone systems just to handle basic calling and routing. Individuals still face dropped calls, poor reception, and restrictive phone plans. Despite the ubiquity of phones and the continued popularity… Read more »
Moving Towards a Software Driven Infrastructure
Ask any CIO what their most looming problem is and a number of them will tell you aging legacy infrastructures. The expansion of new data center environments is only placing an additional stress on these infrastructures, and at the same time many emerging markets are building up from a brand new foundation. For those reasons,… Read more »
Accounting Fraud Remains a Persistent Problem
For several years now, instances of accounting fraud have been low and relatively stable. In 2013, for instance, only 47 were reported, and in 2012 there were just 45. Many pointed to these numbers as evidence that new policing measures combined with tracking technologies had created an effective deterrent to the practice. However, a recent… Read more »
Don’t Let One Negative Employee Ruin Total Team Productivity
They say it only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole bunch, and that is especially true in the office. It’s an unfortunate fact that a single negative employee can stifle productivity, efficiency, morale, and innovation for everyone around them. Luckily, with careful and proactive management, you can keep these effects from spreading any… Read more »
Be Careful What You Tweet | Monitoring Your Social Footprint
As many people have learned the hard way, once something reaches the internet it can’t easily be removed or hidden. That has lead to more than a little embarrassment, especially in the context of professional life. If you are looking for a job, it’s essential that you scour your social footprint to see what your… Read more »
The Squires Group, Inc. named in Washington Business Journal’s Largest Staffing list
Annapolis, MD, March 13, 2015 – The Squires Group, Inc. (TSGi) announced that it has been named in Washington Business Journal’s (WBJ) Largest Temp Staffing list. WBJ publishes this list on an annual basis and the ranking is based on prior year revenue. TSGi was ranked #14 on this list published on February 27, 2015.… Read more »