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What is Email Security?

January 19, 2024 Security No comments yet
what is email security

Your business likely relies heavily on email communication to survive. As your company shifts to performing more and more of the daily activities away from a physical location, you will need to have a reliable email service to ensure you’re always able to send and receive messages between your clients and your employees. (more…)

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Why Is IT Budget Planning Critical To Business Success?

January 18, 2024 IT Strategy and Planning No comments yet
IT budget planning

There are a few ultimately inevitable things when it comes to each new year: new resolutions to keep, new technology to catch up on, and new budgets to plan. 

Depending on your organization’s culture and the value of technology to your finance department, the latter can be a very daunting process. 

Whether you’re excited about the technological prospects or you’re already looking forward to the next new year, we’ve gathered a few tips to help you be more successful through the IT budget planning and approval process with your financial decision-makers. 

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Should My Small Business Conduct Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees?

January 18, 2024 Security No comments yet
Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees

Cybersecurity threats are everywhere, and one of the biggest mistakes you can make is assuming your company is simply too small to be hit. In reality, as a small business, you’re a more likely target than the giant corporations. Sure, it makes national headlines when Target or Home Depot have a data breach, but that’s due to the size and the number of consumers impacted. A small business like yours won’t turn heads. In fact, cybercriminals are usually more interested in a quick smash and grab of Internet-based data than attempting to hack through the security of a major company. That puts your business in the crosshairs. (more…)

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The Ultimate Small Business IT Hardware Checklist

January 17, 2024 IT Strategy and Planning No comments yet
business IT hardware

Starting a small business is enough to keep your head spinning from morning until night. While you’re focusing on your company and the products or services you want to bring to the public, there are all kinds of smaller tasks you need to take care of that you may not have planned on.

This includes setting up your small business IT department. Now, you may not need a dedicated IT staff in-house, but having access to the professionals at a Managed IT Services company to help set everything up and troubleshoot issues when they arise, will prove indispensable. To help you get started with everything, here is a small business IT hardware checklist you need to follow. Having all the right gear on hand will make it that much easier for the pros to come in and properly configure the equipment to your company’s specific needs. (more…)

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What is Microsoft Election Guard and How Will it Impact our Elections?

January 17, 2024 Technology News No comments yet
microsoft election guard

For as long as there have been elections there have been rumors of election tampering. This became a story during the last Presidential Election, but in reality there have been claims of voting issues for decades. The 2000 Presidential Election and its “hanging chad” issue, for one. In order to help improve both the ease of voting and security, districts have started to turn to technology to help. These technological uses have come with mixed results. Even the recent Iowa Caucus, which utilized new technology, ran into some rather major problems. Tech giant Microsoft is looking to lend its hand to the upcoming elections with what is called Microsoft Election Guard. But what exactly is it and how will it impact our elections, both in 2020 and in years to come? We have the answer for you. (more…)

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