BYOD – Bring Your Own Device

BYOD or Bring Your Own Device is the practice of letting Employees bring their own mobile phones and tablets into the office and connecting to company resources like Wifi and Email services. Connecting phones and tablets to the company network can raise some security questions and concerns, here’s what the stats say about how businesses are handling these decisions. If you’re not sure...
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When it comes to security and IT there’s no single silver bullet solution, but at Outhouse IT we’ve come up with bundle of things I think will make a world of difference. We need to protect not only the physical information but protect it while it’s being transmitted digitally. Encryption of Data with Truecrypt / bitlocker: First step, protect the laptops themselves, should they...
Read MoreFlat-Fee IT Support for Small Business.

Flat-Fee IT Support for Small Business. Yep, we do that! For $20 per month per computer we will monitor over 1,700 potential “issues” that can occur on your computer and alert you when something arises, often this means fixing hardware and softtware issues before they become catastrophic failures! If issues arise we’ll call and get your OK before proceeding to repair or resolve at our...
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Read MoreRogers network down

As we shared on our twitter and facebook pages this week, it wasn’t just you, Rogers mobile service was down for everyone. https://www.facebook.com/outhouseit/posts/601988609860142 And our follow up when things came back online… https://www.facebook.com/outhouseit/posts/602198706505799 Who’s monitoring YOUR data services and ensuring you’re business is running, even when...
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