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Working From Home: Web conferencing
Working From Home: Web conferencing
With the right technology, web conferencing can make working from home a much more social and productive experience. Audio quality A common problem on conference calls is echo, which is caused by the...
Working From Home: Staying healthy & productive
Working From Home: Staying healthy & productive
When working from home for long hours each day, it's important to create a comfortable environment. Computer screens, TVs and smartphones emit blue-light that can damage our health. Studies show that...
Working From Home: Improving Wi-Fi performance
Working From Home: Improving Wi-Fi performance
Here are some less well-known ways financial services professionals can improve connection speeds on home Wi-Fi networks…Change the channel that the router is transmitting on by using a free phone app...
Device Management is No Longer Optional
Device Management is No Longer Optional
With the growing number of mobile devices available, there's no doubt there's increased security exposure for financial services organizations, which are already subject to higher data security...
Get More Out of Your Microsoft 365 Deployment
Get More Out of Your Microsoft 365 Deployment
Cloud-based productivity suites such as Microsoft 365 enable financial industry IT departments to protect against security threats, simplify endpoint manageability and enhance collaboration across...
Improve Productivity with Web Conferencing & Smarter Tools
Improve Productivity with Web Conferencing & Smarter Tools
Most financial services organizations want to make it easier for employees and clients to meet anywhere, any time. To respond to customers faster, or train clients or employees online instead of...
Improving Customer Experiences and Security
Improving Customer Experiences and Security
In financial services – where disruptive innovation and competition can come from almost anywhere –enabling your workforce with modern PCs can accelerate your response to customers and help to reduce...
Accelerating Technology Adoption
Accelerating Technology Adoption
Financial technology (FinTech) can help you become more efficient and get closer to customers. All FinTech is essentially based on two building blocks; Cloud and Big Data. Cloud systems require your...
Enabling a BYOD Program
Enabling a BYOD Program
While Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) may reduce upfront costs, it can also expose you to greater security risks and more complexity. We recommend PCs should be owned and managed by IT under a program...
Move Beyond Passwords to Multi-Factor Authentication
Move Beyond Passwords to Multi-Factor Authentication
Financial services firms that are not yet using multi-factor authentication (MFA) may be exposing their data to greater risk. Not only is MFA more secure, it also provides a better user experience...
Building a Device Choice Program
Building a Device Choice Program
Your planned program, where employees are offered a choice of company-owned devices, can improve end user satisfaction and flexibility, at the same time ensuring data and device security. As you...
Securing Endpoints to Protect The Organization
Securing Endpoints to Protect The Organization
Financial services organizations will always be high-value targets for cyber-attacks. As hacking methods grow more sophisticated with social engineering and brute-force cracking, endpoint device...