Kotori Technologies, LLC, a Goose Creek based technology services provider, announced they have hired a new Outside Sales Representative, Jason Murphy. Mr. Murphy will be responsible for the relationship building and development with businesses in the West Ashley area.
 
“We are very pleased to have Mr. Murphy join our team,” said Neadom Tucker, Kotori Technologies’ owner. “Jason brings with him an excellent attitude and excitement, which will help Kotori better serve our customers and help continue our success.”
 
Prior to his new position, Jason worked as a golf professional. As Kotori’s new Outside Sales Representative, Jason will be responsible for business development, including overall strategy, new market segments, and managing the existing client base in his area. He will also be in charge of providing customers with warranty/maintenance and sales information. Jason is a graduate of West Virginia University with a degree in liberal arts.
 
About Kotori Technologies, LLC
Kotori Technologies is a computer consulting firm with a group of highly skilled technicians delivering larger-enterprise IT solutions to small and midsize businesses founded in 2006. They combine cutting-edge technology and innovative minds to create customized solutions that resolve today’s business issues and anticipate tomorrow’s needs. Kotori Technologies has helped clients increase efficiencies and decrease operating costs. Kotori Technologies is headquartered in Goose Creek, SC. For more information about Kotori Technologies, go to http://kotoritechnologies.com or call 843-553-8800.

You hear it all the time… Web 2.0, Facebook, Twitter and many other sites and internet services that kids are a part of today.  In my day, the biggest thing parents had to worry about was if I could find my dad’s stash of nudie magazines.  Now porn is just a very small part of what the internet has to offer the young minds of America.  There are millions of sites out there that are not meant for the youth of any country.  The internet makes it easy for anyone to get anything.  Search engines have made it easy to find out anything any kid wants to know about whatever.

So how do you as the parent, protect yourself and your kids from material that you don’t want them to see?  Well you have to put in safe guards.  The measure at which you need to put up safeguards will depend on how old and how tech savvy your kids are. There are countless software programs out there, and no matter how well your raise your kids, curiosity killed the cat.  Your kids will start to wonder some at some point.  So you have to do your homework.  If you are reading my blog post, then you are halfway there.

Here are my 5 Steps to protecting your home pc for the general home user.  If your child is a “wanna be” hacker, then you need more help than I can provide in this post.  Call us and we will get you all set up.
     1) Upgrade to Windows 7 – If you have not done this, then do so.  The new parent safety features of Windows 7 takes care of all the work for you. If you’re a MAC user than this will not work.  Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/features/parental-controls.aspx
     2) Use Google Safe Search – Safe search is a feature in Google to not allow certain content to be searched.  Go to: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134479
      3) Use Open DNS – Open DNS allows you to filter all of your internet traffic by content and block access to those pages.  They offer a free version and a pay for version that is only $10 per year. Go to: http://www.opendns.com
      4) Use Safe Eyes – Safe Eyes allows you to block sites and set time limits for any user.  It has more bells and whistles than Windows 7.  So if your budget is not a huge issue, it is $50 per year.  It works for both MAC and PC.  Go to:  http://www.internetsafety.com
      5) Install Anti-Virus – How does this help keep the kids off the PC?  Well it doesn’t.  But what it does do is provide you a good level of protection for your computer and peace of mind.  We suggest Viper by Sunbelt Software.  Go to: http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Home-Home-Office/VIPRE/

Just as with anything out there this is not 100% bulletproof but it gets you going in the right direction.  If you have any questions on these or any software products, please feel free to give us a call.