Hello friends and business associates:
This newsletter contains some very interesting and helpful information regarding your business' security
vulnerability and what we can do about it, a sample email policy for your employees to help keep YOU out of
hot water and a link to some very helpful information from our friends at Microsoft.
Is your web site stale?
Many of us take our web sites for granted and do not change it on a regular basis. Fortunately,
unlike an old newspaper, web sites cannot be tossed into the recycle bin. They can be ignored though.
Don't let your web site become dusty, after all, it is a reflection of your business. Visit
http://spearheadmm.com and drop us a note. We'll perform a free
evaluation and provide recommendations to "freshen" your web site. We even offer a maintenance package
tailored to your needs so you can have us change the site anytime and not worry about the cost.
New Products
We've just established relationships with Compaq direct and a major US Electronics
distributor. This means better pricing and availability on all of the top name products we supply.
Ask us about the great savings on Compaq factory refurbished and excessive inventory products. Why buy
homeowner product or brand new when you can buy commercial grade, high quality computer products at a
substantial savings. A new inventory list is published each week and the product goes fast. Let us find
you the commercial grade products you thought were out of your budget.
MANAGING RISK by Eric Greenberg
Protecting information and defending a computing infrastructure are not absolute sciences. Security planning
is about balancing the relative value of your assets against the cost of protecting them, and against the
probability that they will be violated. The first step is security impact analysis, where you evaluate the
effects of a security breach on your business, identifying the areas of greatest vulnerability. The next step
is to develop a security implementation driven by your impact analysis, giving you the most bang for the buck.
In this article, we'll look at a simple impact analysis and then at a technical implementation that addresses
the important vulnerabilities. Click to continue
http://spearheadmultimedia.com/news/risk_mgmt.htm
Email Policy for Business.
Do your employees abuse their internet privileges? Do you know how much bandwidth is dedicated to work
related business and how much is not? As a business owner, it's your right to know. An
email/internet/intranet acceptable use policy should be signed by every employee of your business.
Each employee should understand you have complete access to all of their email and history of web sites
visited. What would you do if you were slapped with a lawsuit because an employee of yours violated the law
online and was never informed of your policy? Our disclaimer: This won't make you bullet proof and we
strongly recommend you have your legal counsel review it. Go to
http://spearheadmultimedia.com/news/sample_email_policy.htm
Microsoft Office Tips, Tricks, Templates and Updates.
The company some of us love to hate provides some wonderful information and time saving solutions for your
everyday Office tasks. Take a look at the Office Assistance Center at
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/
Business To Business deals on everything for your office.
Visit the B2B page at http://spearheadmm.com before you go shopping for
those supplies and other office goodies. Our affiliates are always offering up some great deals.
Previous newsletters can be found in the Spearhead News Archive at
http://spearheadmultimedia.com/news/
We hope you find our information helpful to your business. We're here to assist you in
your needs in any of these areas. We are always open to suggestions and constructive criticisms (be
gentle).
Best regards and as always, good business,
Stephen Picardi
President
picardi@spearheadmm.com
