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In the IT industry, conferences like Microsoft’s Inspire (formerly known as their Worldwide Partner Conference) is something we keep a very close eye on each year. The annual conference took place in Las Vegas from July 12-19th. With about 20,000 attendees from all over the world, partners like us who are heavily invested in Microsoft flocked to the desert to get the inside story on news,...

Compromising an employee’s email account can be profitable and even a disruption by inserting malware, but being able to gain access to an email domain’s administrator account is the winning lottery ticket for attackers. With that being said, it is essential to be aware of phishing scams that are not necessarily targeting an organization’s users, but more specifically, their administrators.

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A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting on the couch watching TV on a random Sunday night, around 9:30. I happen to notice an email come in from PayPal, confirming a $40 payment to GoDaddy for my virtual server. This struck me as odd, since I didn’t remember even having an active GoDaddy account, let alone one that included virtual servers. I scoured the email assuming it was some sort of phishing...

CHIPS Technology Group successfully completes the SSAE 18/SOC 1 TYPE ll examination conducted by The Moore Group, an independent CPA firm.

Definition: A collaborative team is a group of individuals who share common beliefs and work towards common goals. Collaborative team members spend time discussing what they hope to accomplish as a team and individual goals for reaching that vision.

Today’s intelligent assistants are full of skills. They can check the weather, traffic and sports scores. They can play music, translate words and send text messages. They can even do math, tell jokes and read stories. But, when it comes to conversations that lead somewhere grander, the wheels fall off.

Recently, I joined a ribbon-cutting at the new Bank of America location on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington. The financial center is a great example of co-innovation with our customers. It features some test technology only available at this location, like a holographic greeter, with capabilities in English, Spanish and American Sign Language. The bank’s associates are equipped with...

Most people wouldn’t think to teach five-year-olds how to hit a baseball by handing them a bat and ball, telling them to toss the objects into the air in a zillion different combinations and hoping they figure out how the two things connect.

It’s no secret the mobile phone has become a device we rely so heavily on in today’s world. Forget the password to your social media account? Receive a four-digit pin sent to your phone. The same goes for your banking account, your credit card login, your work network login, etc. Simply enter the digits sent to your mobile phone to recover access and you’re all set. So if it’s so critical and so...