Employee Security Training

Employee Security Training Human-error; we talk about it all the time, but what exactly do we mean?  Human-error occurs when an individual performs a task or does something with an unintended outcome.  It’s easy to point the finger at employee’s as being an organization’s weakest link, but without appropriate security awareness training provided by the […]

Domain Name – Plays of the Game

Super Bowl Sunday Domain Name Plays Did you see that awesome play?! (Game-winning interceptions are always fun!)  What great contact (Bouncing on the player for the catch!!)  Or how about the commercials? Someone should fire the – I will not name insurance company’s – ad agency.  OK, OK… I must admit – I watched the […]

Open Mesh – Cloud Based Mangement Wireless Networks

We want to take a little time to tell you about an amazing modular wireless network system called Open Mesh. It doesn’t replace your router, it will expand your Wi-Fi network’s range, speed, and overall efficiency. And it is one of the most cost efficient IT solutions we have ever come across. Open Mesh is […]

The Heartbleed Vulnerability

By now it’s safe to assume that you have at the very least heard the term “Heartbleed.” If you haven’t, have you been…hiding in a cave? Because we live in a world dominated by technology and technological threats you may have heard on your local news about the Heartbleed bug and ignored the threat. I […]

Top 10 Catch Phrases that didn’t make it as CSI Onsite’s Catch Phrase

CSI Onsite…Techs you can trust. This is a great vision statement that really does capture the heart of what we want to be as a company. This statement did not just fall in our laps; we worked with nationally recognized personal and venture coach Leary Gates (Lumina Consulting Group, BoldPath Life Strategies, and LearyGates.com) to […]

Microsoft XP, the countdown continues.

If you are a dyed in the wool, Microsoft XP devotee’ you are probably grieving the eventually decommissioning of XP.  XP was first introduced in August of 2001 and became readily available in October of that same year. It’s had a good run, as far as OS’s go but XP simply cannot keep up with […]

Moments of Joy

Being a one stop IT shop in the Twin Cities, communication is of paramount importance for our team to provide solid customer service. This is true with all service industries; to discover the issue and provide a viable solution the parties involved have to be able to communicate clearly with one another. Sometimes the results […]

The “Do”s and “Don’t”s of Email

As part of CSI Onsite’s continuing mission to rid the IT world of inefficiencies, we wish to share with you some strategies to combat the electronic scourge of corporate America, the Looooooooooooooooooog email. Don’t laugh; have you ever received an email asking a simple question that the sender managed to boil down to 3 pages […]

Reflection…practice the Pause.

  Thanks you very much for spending some of your valuable time reading our Blog! For today’s post I thought we should carry out one of the world’s most ancient, productive, and paradoxical disciplines…Reflection. It’s paradoxical because we are a society obsessed with believing more is better and rest is a waste of time. In […]

Spring Cleaning

Ahh…Spring the season of new beginnings, buds on the trees, flowers blooming. Not where we live. We just had 8-10 inches of snow, on two different days in one week! But it is supposed to be in the 70s this weekend so the snow will melt and the green will return to our beloved Minnesota. […]