ForeSite Insight

Simple, sign up for the National Do Not Call Registry!
This month, cell phone numbers are going public, which means they are being released to telemarketing companies.  The time you spend on these calls will be charged to you!  This could potentially mean that telemarketers will increase your phone bill by running up your plan’s minutes.  [...]

MATCH Coalition, Inc. (Mobilize Against Tobacco for Children’s Health) is a non-profit organization, established in 1995, to protect Connecticut residents from the dangers of tobacco use and secondhand smoke.  MATCH consists of an over one hundred member organization representing thousands of Connecticut residents.
The objective of this project was to cultivate an effective web strategy through [...]

ForeSite Has the Precise IT Recipe
We call it our “recipe.”
Since every organization’s IT needs are different, ForeSite’s recipe is the precise blend of IT support services your organization needs—not what we decide is right for us.
In short, this is called a “managed IT service.”
What is a managed IT service?
The generic concept of any managed service [...]

ForeSite is an authorized reseller partner for Enterasys network solutions, and we were thrilled to hear that Enterasys was selected as a Top 100 Product of 2011 by District Administration Readers!
It’s no surprise when you consider that over 300 K-12 School Districts rely on Enterasys solutions for reliable classroom access, centralized management and monitoring of [...]

Installing software directly from an untrusted or source:

uTorrent
BitTorrent
Shareaza
BitComet

When users of file sharing networks (such as the above-mentioned) download software from these networks, there is no way to verify that the software you are downloading does not also contain malware, adware, rootkits, or viruses.
Many users believe that simply having updated antivirus software will protect them, but [...]

Social networking may seem like a waste of time and energy, but whether you are happy to embrace it as a marketing tool or try to avoid it, it is here to stay (at least until the next big thing comes along)!  According to Wikipedia.org, there are 14 different social networking sites that have over [...]

Did you know that you could write off technology infrastructure upgrades as opposed to depreciating them to help mitigate your tax liability?  The section 179 Tax Deduction is a law that allows you to write off up to $500,000 of equipment purchases in a single year rather than having to depreciate them, according to Section179.Org.  [...]

Spam is not new.  And I won’t make a bad joke about canned meat, that ship sailed about 10 years ago.  But unfortunately, it’s still a problem, and getting worse.  Unwanted email has developed from simply an annoyance to potentially dangerous with all of the phishing and virus schemes that are out there.  While there [...]

Post courtesy of Justin Stackawitz of Granite Communications http://www.granitecomm.com
There are a lot of misconceptions about “VoIP”. At one time, this was an up and coming buzzword in the telecommunications industry. Today, though, virtually everyone is at least familiar with the term Voice Over Internet, or Voice Over IP. This kind of ubiquitous familiarity, regardless of [...]

Irene came and went, and overall CT and MA fared better than expected. But how did your organization feel when the possibility of a natural disaster forced a test of what you did or didn’t have in place for protecting your network and critical data?

There are some basic best practices that you should consider BEFORE the next “disaster” strikes, be it weather, fire, theft, or the most common – hardware failure.