Cloud and mobile technology have changed and will continue to drive how clients and accounting firms operate, especially in the financial reporting process.

The past few years have seen Facebook basically wiping MySpace off the social networking map.  Now it appears to be trying to do the same thing to LinkedIn with its BranchOut application.  Don’t get me wrong.  I’m a huge Facebook fan.  And in my opinion, the biggest winner in this competition will be us, the [...]

When you allow employees to manage their own passwords without imposing proper standards you are compromising the effectiveness of the passwords and making it far easier for a breach to occur.  There are two ways an intruder can break your passwords either by cracking them or obtaining them.
The first is using mathematics and software to [...]

I have to admit, I was late in jumping on the Facebook bandwagon.  As a newbie, I learned much from my teenage children about how it could be used.  Fast forward a few years, and as a parent and an IT professional, I have spent a considerable amount of time studying the security measures that [...]

My daughter graduated from high school this spring.  Part of the open house party preparation was creating the obligatory display of pictures and other memorabilia going back to when she was just a baby.  As I was sorting through the boxes of items I had saved, trying to decide how best to display them for [...]