Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Rabbit Hole Technology I’ve been recommending pass-phrases to clients for years. One of the first questions I usually hear is:“What should I use?” My go-to advice used to be: “Something random but memorable—and make sure to throw in a few numbers and special characters.” For example:H!s Dog $p0t That approach still works—and it’s…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Rabbit Hole Technology Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is no longer a trend—it’s the new normal. Whether your firm fully embraces BYOD, provides company-owned devices, or operates a hybrid model, one thing is clear: mobile devices now play a central role in business operations. But with convenience comes risk. When employees access firm…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Thursday, July 26, 2018 Target, Twitter, Time-hop (the list goes on and on) have had data breaches exposing multi-millions of user’s personal and financial information to bad actors. However, this personal data is just one part of the puzzle if your accounts are protected by additional layers of security. Two-Factor Authentication could protect…
Seven Characteristics of a Successful Backup Strategy Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Friday, May 11, 2018 In the late nineties I met a gentleman at a conference who was passing out copies of “The Tao of Backup”* and sharing that “to be enlightened, one must master the seven heads of Backup.” In the handout, and the subsequently published…
TheSoftwareConsultant | Thursday, September 13, 2018 Feature specially written for blog.thesoftwareconsultant.com Feature by: Jean Brandrick Last July, personal security website ASecureLife ranked Nevada as the riskiest state for security theft and it’s not hard to see why. Nevada is known for gambling and spending extreme amounts of money – two very attractive activities for identity thieves and hackers.…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Saturday, April 14, 2018 Upgrading a practice management system is a big decision for any law firm. When your existing solutions have often been adapted to over many years to fit working practices to the software workflow, staff feel comfortable using them, and there is often the fear that change will disrupt day…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | July 16, 2018 So many cloud-based case & matter management systems have a common “Weakest Feature”, the document automation process. Being cloud-based, the edit-upload-download-edit-upload process for reviewing and editing documents is just plain clumsy in many hosted solutions. AlphaDrive for Clio changes that! With AlphaDrive added to your Clio solution,…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Tuesday, April 3, 2018 There is a ton of information out there about how to create that perfect password. As long as you follow the rules, your password should be strong and un-crackable. Or at the very least, your password should be strong enough to outlast a few rounds of brute force attacks…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Thursday, August 2, 2018 Verizon recently released its Mobile Security Index report highlighting the difficulty businesses face in balancing convenience and user experience with security concerns and the reality of today’s internet environment that is filled with risk. The report finds that Companies are sacrificing mobile security for convenience and performance. Companies that…
Alisanne Steele | TheSoftwareConsultant | Saturday, July 8, 2018 Sage has put together a feature rich upgrade for Timeslips users. While I usually recommend that users upgrade every-other release (while maintaining support availability), this version is truly worth the cost and effort of upgrading. In addition to some long-awaited fixes, the following are a listing of some of…