by: Ben Howard - IT Services Manager, CISSP

Google has recently released SSL for searches. It is on by default with Chrome, and you can access it at https://www.google.com. While this is not monumental security, earth shattering news, given the option for web traffic to use SSL, you should always, always use SSL. SSL encrypts the communication between your PC and the server to which you send a request adding another layer of data security. In this case, it means that your searches and search results will be encrypted. No one will be able to see what you searched for or what results you received without direct access to your PC. Sounds good, but this doesn’t mean no one can have any clue about your searches. While your searches and results are encrypted, if you click on a link, you will be redirected to another website. That website may or may not support SSL. So, while your ISP may not know that you searched for “free music download”, they will see that you accessed websites that allow you to illegally download music.

Nick Vitucci, a Senior IT Associate with NSK Inc, was at a client’s office routinely monitoring the system and came across some small, seemingly unrelated issues across a number of servers and applications. What first caught Vitucci’s attention was that printing was taking much longer than normal. While trying to troubleshoot that issue, he noticed that the interface to manage the printers was unresponsive.

NSK Inc is excited to announce that it has made the Boston Business Journal’s Top 100 Women-Led Businesses. Nancy Swan Keddy, will be an honoree at the December 1st, 2011 event at the Westin Copley Place Hotel .

NSK Inc is an information technology consulting and outsourcing firm, specializing in small and medium business IT management. Headquartered in Boston, MA, NSK offers an array of IT services including managed monitoring and maintenance, Cloud Computing technologies, and security audits and assessments and IT Project Management.