PCs, PDAs, Static & Mobile

If you spend your time on the road or in the air, a laptop PC is not a luxury, it is a necessity. What you do not need is one that causes back, neck and arm injury when you have to carry it from one end of an airport to the other.

PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) have become more powerful and close allies to their PC counterparts. PCs have also become smaller and more powerful as new technology has brought the line between PDA and laptop to an almost indistinguishable line. UMPCs (Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers) offer true computing power with mobility using normal Windows-based applications. Most UMPCs and PDAs have the ability to connect to wireless networks of either the LAN or the telephonic variety and battery life that allows a trans- atlantic flight of around 8 or 9 hours to be filled with your PC still operational as opposed to a laptop who's battery will die after 90 minutes.

HITS-UK has always been a keen adopter of useful new technology and of ensuring that this can integrate in a seemless and non-technical way for everyday users to appreciate and enjoy.

Stretching your LAN, compromising Security

Moble solutions provide mobile security headaches. Not everyoone appreciates the dangers of data left lying around or the use of USB memory sticks to transfer your company records from laptop to desktop. How to stop that director from leaving memory sticks with other companies or letting his son save photos on the computer so his friends can see them? The more serious issues of people who go to unsuitable web sites when your back is turned and leave you to explain what happened ...

Sound familiar? HITS-UK has seen it all and helped in situations from the home to the Court room. Experience is key to these situations as is the ability to determine the security breaches that can be the root cause of your company or personal data issues. 80% of all security breaches relate to internal personnel problems (source: HITS-UK Research). 90% of PC use abuse relates to poor education and inexperienced people trying to investigate issues they are not qualified to address (source: HITS-UK Research).

PC Forensics
This is a much mis-understood and potentially dangerous arena in the IT world. Too many people regard themselves as 'experts' and either 'taint' the evidence, or are simply incompetent. If it is simply a case of a lost password to a file, or a 'locked' operating system, HITS-UK may be able to assist. Where there is a requirement to assist from a legal perspective, HITS-UK has a protocol and procedure based upon years of actual experience and known court and legal proceedings.

PCs and their use is as limited as your imagination and as such HITS-UK has had to adapt to an ever- increasing number of arenas in which the PC, PDA or UMPC has been adopted. As fast as legitimate use grows, so - sadly - does the illegal and seedy side of life and it is from this that we can help to protect your people and investment.