Network Management, Inc. Blog

Network Management, Inc. has been serving the Virginia area since 1994, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

What Do You Need Your Business’ Technology to Accomplish?

Service offerings for business technology are kind of tricky to approach for administrators--especially if they have gotten by just fine without implementing new technology for the past few years. We want you to ask yourself if you are absolutely certain that the solutions aren’t needed by your business. You might find that you actually do need them. If nothing else,...

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Four Steps To An Effective Anti-Phishing Solution

Historically, threat actors used phishing tactics, and sent emails to try to dupe unsuspecting victims. These were mass email campaigns with a low success rate. Today, however, attackers carry out targeted and focused tactical email campaigns as part of spear phishing attacks. This solution brief provides a four-step recommendation to bolster your defense against sophisticated phishing email attacks. An effective...

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SamSam Is More than a Computer Virus

I think by now most people understand just how dangerous ransomware is. Even with some of the ridiculous names they have like Gandcrab, Jigsaw, and WannaCry. Hell, two strains even have names from the James Bond canon: LeChiffre and GoldenEye. But one funny-named strain of ransomware, SamSam, has been devastating information systems for sometime, and has caught the eye of...

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Tip of the Week: How to Make Your Smartphone Work Better for You

The holiday season is coming to an end, which means it’s time to get back to the grind in the new year. However, if you happened to receive an Android device as a gift (or maybe treated yourself to one, I’m not judging), you can leverage it to make work a little easier. We’ll give you a few tips how....

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A Letter Back from Santa’s Elves

We’ve always been a proponent of preparing for the worst and hoping for the best where a business’ solutions are concerned. That’s why we were happy to receive an email from our friends at the North Pole telling us about a situation they ran into just a few days ago... Dear NetMGM, I just wanted to send you a quick...

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The original email reputation management system began with the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). The very first RBL was developed in 1997 by Paul Vixie for the . Referring to a network link that drops rather than forwards incoming traffic, Vixie intended the “blackhole” in this case to drop email traffic from sites that directly sent or enabled spam. The original...

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How Cyber Criminals Can Bypass Your Reputation Management

As technology advances, cyber criminals develop new tactics to carry out new attacks. Real-time Blackhole List (RBL) was developed in 1997 and was the foundation of today’s DNS-based Blackhole List (DNSBL) format. But cyber criminals carry out attacks that undermine and bypass IP reputation management systems. Hence, it is important to for security professionals to evolve and stay ahead of...

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Simplicity, Flexibility, and More Features: All Good Reasons to Switch to VoIP

How often does your business have trouble with its phone systems? While the traditional telephone setup might still be present in most offices, there are plenty of organizations out there that have found value in another, more virtual option. Thanks to VoIP, more businesses than ever are using the Internet to take advantage of more dynamic voice features. Here are...

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Tip of the Week: Email Should Be A Tool–Here’s 3 Ways To Keep It Under Control

Email has been one of the primary correspondence methods for businesses for several years. In addition to communicating with your team, clients, and peers, emails also bring you the latest blog in a subscription, or sales and marketing messages from prospective vendors. With dozens of emails flowing in throughout your day, emails can become a distraction that results in a...

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Today’s Students Are Leveraging The Best Of Today’s Tech

An educated workforce provides the business world with intelligent prospective employees who want to leave companies better than they were when they arrived. Thankfully, technology has made it even easier to achieve a quality education with concepts such as online learning and live streaming taking the frontlines. How are today’s students utilizing modern technology in the classroom? There are many...

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