Can your employees bring their own laptops, tablets, and cell phones to work and join the corporate network? If you answered yes, implementing a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy just became an essential security move. If employees are bringing their own devices, it means they have the potential to fill portables that can easily … Continued
Network security has become an integral part of any organization, large or small. If networks aren’t secure, businesses are subject to major security issues within their organizations and risk losing customer, client, or consumer trust. This is why it is important to always be thinking of new ways to improve security at all levels. Here … Continued
If your IT provider doesn’t know anything about your business (and doesn’t want to) you probably have a vendor that wants to take your order and your money, not join efforts to create mutual success. An IT partner, on the other hand, sincerely wants to make your company work better, so together, the two of … Continued
Historically, the IT Department is the best prepared branch within a business. They are already tasked with backing up data, offsite storage, virus protection, keeping software up-to-date and ensuring a smoothly running infrastructure. In a perfect world, this ensures a comfy level of continuity. However, along comes some type of interruption. It could be a … Continued
What are information security best practices? Best practices are steps and guidelines that are accepted as being correct in most circumstances and found to be most effective. They are often used as a reference point for administrators while setting up anything from a new network infrastructure to a new workstation. As with many other industries, … Continued
Don’t think of your business as being too small for anyone to notice—whether you have 10 or 1,000 clients—your customer data is valuable to hackers. SMBs can be more ruthlessly affected by security mistakes than larger businesses due to the revenue and staff ratio. If there were to be a security breach, recovering and/or recreating … Continued
What’s a “digital business?” A quick search yields many definitions and opinions of what makes a company “digital.” It’s easier to think of “digital business” less as a strict definition and more as a range. Company A might just be testing the waters with a few outsourced applications while Company Z is so digital they … Continued
With recent news of Ashley Madison and the Office of Personnel Management being hacked, data breaches continue to dominate headlines. It’s only going to get worse, it seems, as a recent report by Juniper research predicts the cost of data breaches will pass two trillion dollars by 2019. Breach Costs Now and in the Future … Continued
IT hardware is some of the most important equipment that a company uses on a day-to-day basis. It is required to perform critical tasks and relied upon in almost every field of work. Unfortunately, not all businesses have a hardware replacement plan for upgrading outdated equipment. Here are some things you should consider when making … Continued
“The cloud” is the hot tech buzzword that’s not going away, and with good reason. Cloud computing isn’t a fad. It’s a new way of managing IT needs that is revolutionizing how we do businesses. The benefits of taking it to the cloud are especially relevant to small businesses. Hardware cost savings Infrastructure spending is … Continued
