Like many businesses, AmSurg Corporation has employees who use laptops on the road and then connect with the network when they return to the office. And like others, Am Surg has to contend with spyware that these laptops pick up elsewhere and bring back home.
The IT staff at Lochinvar Corporation thought they had adequate protection for the company website - until one spring day when the customer service lines and the main switchboard started lighting up.
“Customers were calling in saying ‘there’s something wrong with your site. You guys have given me a virus,’” says Noemi Jacobs, the company’s manager of IT.
Bill Fowler wanted better. He had been appointed Director of Tax at America Service Group not long before, and was getting too many notices from state sales tax departments about late filings and other tax issues. The company, which provides health care to inmates, serves jails and prisons in more than 30 states, each with its own complex set of rules on sales and use taxes. The company is required to file...
