Technology Built on the Salesforce.com platform, TechCanary supports sales and service for all lines of business When you want to know if the air in a coal mine is breathable, you send a canary down the shaft. If the canary flies back up, all is good. If not, well … you get the picture. It was this time-honored practice that inspired Reid Holzworth to choose the name TechCanary for his
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TechKnowFile Improvements in document management bode well for agents Ninety-two percent of independent agencies rely on their management system for document management. That’s according to the Applied Systems 2016 digital agency report on technology adoption across the independent agency channel. Effective electronic document management means that business moves through your agency with efficient workflows. Today ACORD eDocs and Messages Download gives carriers the means to provide agents and brokers those
Recent DDoS attacks alarm consumers to secure connected devices On October 21, a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on domain name system provider Dyn temporarily blocked consumer traffic to nearly 70 major Internet companies, including Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, and Reddit. A DDoS attack uses a multitude of hacked systems to attack a single target with a flood of requests; these requests are designed to overload the system
TechKnowFile Consider this counsel if contemplating conversion to the cloud In 2002, when I first started looking into “the cloud”—the use of web-based computing using shared resources such as networks, servers, storage and applications—I had a gut feeling that it would pay off. I did my homework, too, before my agency migrated to cloud services for our management system. For sure, moving to the cloud yielded benefits—immediately and over the
To The Point If you don’t trust the source of a download, don’t download it. Otherwise, you’re inviting an attack. Ransomware, that ubiquitous malware that denies users access to their own device, is increasingly showing up on mobile devices. While we typically associate malware with desktop computers, it’s fully capable of infecting mobile devices, too. In fact, mobile-based ransomware incidents increased nearly four-fold in the past year. Kaspersky Lab reports
