It once was said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Sadly, it appears some malicious hackers are taking that advice to heart when it comes to Hurricane Harvey. Earlier this week, our director of IT and data security John Sanders…
If it can cripple an airport, a large marketing group, an international shipping company and a large energy company, it can also bring your business and its network to its knees…
Valentine’s Day is upon us … and so is the threat of nefarious, malicious, ill-intended, criminal and just generally up-to-no-good cyber activity. With all the sending and receiving of e-cards, e-mails offering deals on chocolate, roses…
This time of year trucks, trains and planes are busily playing Santa, traversing the country and skies delivering packages to redistribution centers and eventually doorsteps, doing their best to insure people get their Christmas presents…
Last week’s DDoS attack reiterates why it’s important to secure your networks and connected devices. On Friday, a large portion of the Internet went down as hackers launched a large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a major…
Probably everyday coming across your LinkedIn and other social media newsfeeds are multiple articles touting the many benefits of working remotely — less stress, lower costs, more engagement, a happier workforce and so on.
Due to this…
There’s a new virus in town and already it’s affected nearly a half-million PCs, according to a recent Spiceworks article. Dubbed “Locky,” it’s a new strain of ransomware, similar to Cryptolocker that plagued the world a couple of years…
You probably have heard stories from your grandparents or your older neighbors of how it used to be, when people could leave their homes open and unlocked and trust them to remain unmolested. Those days are long gone now, and people are
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
Cybersecurity conversations have a way of generating more jargon than clarity. Two terms that appear constantly — microsegmentation and zero trust — are frequently treated as interchangeable, occasionally treated as competitors, and almost always underexplained. They’re neither the same thing nor mutually exclusive. Understanding the actual difference between them is
The term gets used constantly, but rarely defined clearly. Professional services show up in contracts, proposals, and vendor conversations — often without much explanation of what actually falls under that label or why it’s priced differently from other work. For businesses evaluating technology partners, understanding the distinction matters more than
