If you are like most people, when Friday roles around, you are so glad it’s the end of the week and are doubtless looking forward to a long restful weekend. It’s why there are such hashtags as #thatfridayfeeling, #fridaymood and #friyay.
Hopefully, by the time…
It’s spring time, tax day has passed, and now you have probably have lots of piles of papers, folders of files, and racks of records that need to be shredded. You’re probably thinking it’s time to call the local shredding company, right? You’re on the right track, but you could…
It’s important network users know how to identify social engineering emails — otherwise known as a phishing email.
Why? Because one click on a bad link or one download of an infected attachment could bring a whole network down and wreck a business…
Too many organizations, especially smaller cash-strapped ones, understandably shy of contracts and spending hard-to-get funds, think they are saving money by purchasing cheap desktop printers at big-box stores…
It’s tax season. Doubtless, if you are a tax preparer, you are busy handling all kinds of forms, everything from W-2s to 1099s to 1040s, to maybe even a few TPS forms, and everything in between. It’s easy to forget…
Lots of boys are fascinated by firetrucks, trains and airplanes and would like nothing more than a chance to get near one and maybe even tour one. 6-year-old Henry Mitchell is no different. He loves big trucks of all kinds and often runs out near the street…
The end of the year is just around the corner and a new year awaits. Here are four items to consider adding to your business year end to do list as you wrap up another year in business. Buy business equipment. If you’ve been thinking about buying…
If your business is still using traditional postage stamps for mailing bills or notifications to your customers, you better brace for a substantial price increase. If you are using a postage meter, there is still a price increase, but not…
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. While old, this adage is as true today as it always has been, especially when it comes to cyber security and protecting your business’s network and private data. In light of that adage…
RK Black Shredding & Susan G. Komen: Allies against breast cancer. That’s why for more than two years, R.K. Black Shredding has partnered with Susan G. Komen of Central and Western Oklahoma to raise funds to help fight breast cancer and to…
Most business networks run invisibly until the moment they don’t. Files open, email flows, applications respond, and nobody thinks about the routers, switches, and firewalls quietly moving all that traffic — right up until a switch fails, an internet circuit drops, or a misconfigured firewall blocks half the office from
The business phone system rarely gets attention until it fails — and then it gets all of it at once. A dropped call with a major client, a phone tree that routes customers into voicemail purgatory, a new office that can’t get lines installed for weeks: communication problems interrupt revenue
Cyber threats have moved from “if” to “when” for businesses of every size. Attackers scanning networks for weak spots don’t discriminate by industry, revenue, or headcount — they’re looking for vulnerabilities, and any business connected to the internet ends up on someone’s target list eventually. The businesses that recover cleanly
Physical mail hasn’t gone away. Invoices, statements, notices, contracts, appeals, marketing pieces, court filings, patient communications, and regulatory correspondence still move by mail in enormous volumes across every industry. The volume shows up on the operations side as labor, on the postage bill as expense, and on the budget as
Every few months a new headline lands about a firewall breach, and the natural reaction is to ask, “Are we exposed?” The latest one—an exposure researchers are calling FortiBleed—is worth your attention, but not for the reason most coverage suggests. The real story isn’t a single vendor’s stumble. It’s that the legacy VPN
Documents are the connective tissue of every business. Invoices, contracts, HR records, patient charts, client files, board materials, regulatory filings — every department generates them, every process depends on them, and every audit examines them. When the systems managing all that volume break down, the friction touches everything: approvals stall,
Print costs are notoriously hard to pin down. Nobody on the leadership team can ever say with confidence what the business is actually spending on printing each month — and the answer, when somebody finally digs in, is usually far higher than anyone expected. Toner sits unused on shelves while
When IT systems fail, business doesn’t slow down — it stops. Email goes silent. Files become unreachable. Phones drop. Customers wait. Every minute of downtime carries a cost, and every minute of recovery pulls focus away from the work that’s supposed to be happening. Managed IT exists to keep that
Phone systems don’t get a lot of attention until they stop working. Then they get everyone’s attention at once. For businesses still running aging phone infrastructure — or cobbling together communication tools that were never designed to work together — the cost of inaction shows up in dropped calls, missed
