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As information technology has grown in importance – to… just about every company – determining how best to manage and support technology has become a pressing question for business leaders. For small and medium-sized businesses, and even for many large businesses, searching for the best answer to the question generally leads to a consideration of outsourcing.

The sophistication and intensity of cybercrime has skyrocketed over the last 10 years. Today most bad actors skip trying to get through firewalls and antivirus software, and instead go straight after your employees.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) provides an extra, and today a crucial, necessary level of protection for your organization’s network. It has been shown conclusively, and countless times, that adding an extra authentication factor helps reduce the risk of unauthorized access to systems and data.

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and is a time when many IT conferences focus on that topic.  One conference this year, in particular, included a session that was especially valuable and is worth sharing with you.

Building projects can create challenges for a business.  Be it for the construction of a new building or “just” for a big remodel, it often becomes natural to focus on the fun stuff.  Things like the color of the granite countertops and wood flooring often take up more thinking and planning time than the technology infrastructure. 

A growing number of outsourced IT providers are settling on a business model that requires their customers to meet certain criteria – which the provider sets – in order to do business together. 

Buying new hardware or software can be a daunting task. With technology continually evolving, and new products and solutions hitting the market nearly every day, how can you make sure you are choosing the best technology for your specific needs? The answer isn’t always simple, and in the end, there are a number of factors to consider when making hardware and software purchasing decisions.

The growth of “The Internet of Things” (IoT) has great promise in terms of enhancing productivity and providing the ability to successfully monitor and manage a wide and growing variety of networked devices.  The other side of this positive coin is that as more and more traffic converges on the network, more and more threats abound, and the importance of information security becomes ever more critical.

Maintaining strong passwords has been a benchmark of staying secure online since the inception of the internet. As networks become more complex, so do the ways in which we need to protect ourselves. No longer will single passwords suffice, you need to expand your safety measures to the new frontiers of security.