Tips for a Secure Holiday Shopping Season
As stockings are hung and visions of Sugar Plum fairies dance in our heads, it is time to reconsider cyber security as we shop online for gifts for our loved ones.
The Human Firewall – Make Your Employees Cybersecurity Heroes
When we talk about cybersecurity, we tend to think first of anti-virus programs and maybe even adblockers. The weakest link, though, is not software or hardware. The weakest link is always the human element; more than half of security incidents can be linked to an employee who does something negative or who simply makes a mistake. The phrase "human firewall" [...]
Securing Your Business – Hardware & Software
Data breaches are big news when they happen to big companies - but devastating when they happen to your company. Cyber security is a concern that every company, of any size, needs to take seriously. If you do not have a cyber security plan, then you need one now. You have two major areas of concern - software and hardware. [...]
Protect Your Business by Identifying Scams
Your employees are one of the biggest security threats that your business faces–not because they are deliberately sabotaging your business or opening the door to threats, but because they may unintentionally become the victims of a scam. Whether you’re concerned that you might be a victim yourself or you’re ready to train your employees, it’s important to know some of [...]
How Managed IT Service Providers Enhance Security
As technology and the Internet continue to grow exponentially, unscrupulous individuals continue to create new security threats for organizational privacy, confidentiality, and data integrity. Because almost all network-based services and applications pose some level of security risk, personal and business information must be protected through enhanced security systems and controls. Managed IT service providers often offer the highest levels of [...]
Cybersecurity Issues Your Small Business Must Prioritize Today
Small businesses used to be able to sit back, secure in the knowledge that they wouldn’t be attacked by hackers, social engineers, or other threats. The fact that they were small kept them from being targets. However, for today’s small businesses, a small size alone isn’t enough protection anymore. Hackers now spend approximately 43% of their efforts on small businesses, [...]
12 IT Terms You Really Need to Know
It’s common knowledge that technology moves fast. But how fast? The answer is actually daunting. Currently, technology is advancing at an 18-month doubling rate, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). That means that in a mere year and a half, technology will be twice as powerful as what we have today. And this rate of improvement is only [...]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Managed Services
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy You know what else is really big and mind-boggling? Managed services for businesses. With the plethora of service options available, how do you know what your business needs? To help navigate your options, we’ve put [...]
3 Easy Steps Toward Reducing Data Costs and Risks
Most business operations revolve around data, whether it’s developing new marketing campaigns, launching products, budgeting or anything in between. It’s no surprise that companies spend a lot of money to secure their data from risks and the associated costs. On average, small- to mid-sized companies spend nearly 7 percent of their revenue on IT and data management, an expense second [...]
The True Cost of IT Downtime
As wonderful as technology is, it’s not perfect. Systems crash, Malware infects software, the Internet goes down and hardware fails. The effects of IT failure are far-reaching. Just one outage can end up costing a business much more than most people realize. According to one survey, IT downtime results in over $26.5 billion in lost revenue each year. The average [...]
