Many people can’t see your website. Here’s how to fix it.

You’ve spent all that money and time building a perfect website, but can people actually see it? I periodically hear from friends at some large enterprises that they can’t see the sites we manage (VersatileVC.com, Teten.com, and PEVCtech.com), because their corporate firewalls block them. Given we don’t have any NSFW content, this is both surprising...

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Is The Government Telling The Truth When It Says Your Data Is Secure?

(I previously published this at Techcrunch.) Modern encryption systems are, in theory, exceptionally secure. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), for example, is so sophisticated that all known attacks are considered computationally infeasible. It is no surprise then, that the NSA considers 256-bit AES safe for storing top-secret data. What is a little more surprising, however,...

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How to Protect You and Your Company Against Hackers — at No Cost

Twitter’s security meltdown has done a fantastic job of publicizing how vulnerable a modern, cloud-based company can be to a determined hacker. I have been surprised that in the numerous articles about how to protect yourself against hacking, I have seen very little mention of the powerful technique that we discussed in The Virtual Handshake....

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