Essential Cybersecurity Measures Every Small Business Must Adopt If you’re a small business owner, you may eventually come under siege from hackers trying to breach your network security. You know that such a breach could be a crippling event that could cost you the entire business you’ve struggled so long and hard to build. It’s…
The Key Benefits of Outsourcing Your IT Needs as a Small Business If you own a small business, you’re probably familiar with the term ‘chief cook and bottle-washer.’ For roughly 200 years, that distinctly American phrase has captured the essence of the small business owner, who is responsible for every facet of operations, from the…
Scaling Up: How Managed IT Services Facilitate Growth for Small Businesses If you’re like most small business owners, you sometimes dream of being a big business tycoon. But realistically, you’d probably be content to build up your small operation incrementally, expanding here and there, to make your company as prosperous as possible. There are many…
How Managed IT Services Help Businesses Maintain Compliance Helping you navigate Internet regulations with confidence If your company engages in Internet commerce, you must comply with a wide range of regulations or face substantial penalties as well as civil liability. Internet commerce regulations touch on a number of complex topics, such as: Consumer privacy Data…
The Evolution of IT Support: How Managed Services Have Adapted to Modern Technology Everyone has had occasion to sit and listen to an Old Timer story. In decades past, the neighborhood’s elder statesman would interrupt stickball games to reminisce about Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak or Carl Hubbell’s screwball mowing down five consecutive Hall of…
Optimizing Network Infrastructure: The Key to a Smooth-Running Business Given the choice between a Ferrari and a minivan, most people would probably prefer to drive the Ferrari. They’d also probably prefer to park the Ferrari on their carport, so the neighbors could admire it. And yet, there are reasons why more New Jersey residents drive…
How Managed IT Services Customize Data Backup and Recovery for Business Resilience Resiliency is a hot topic for businesses these days, and no wonder. By resiliency, we mean having the ability to bounce back quickly and capably from a potentially devastating occurrence. Given the events of the last few years, business owners are hungry for…
Understanding the Role of Managed IT Services in Data Backup and Recovery If you haven’t looked at recent statistics for cybercrime, prepare yourself for a shock. Every day, hackers launch about 4,000 successful cyber-attacks, while businesses and consumers detect about 560,000 insertions of malware. Every 14 seconds, a company gets hit with a ransomware attack,…
Disaster Recovery Planning: Ensuring Business Continuity in Any Situation For the last 22 Septembers, we in the Tri-State area have paused to commemorate the innocent lives lost on 9/11. That terror attack not only destroyed more than 3,000 lives, but it knocked Lower Manhattan out of commission for months. Businesses literally had to rise from…
Managed IT Services vs. In-House IT: Which Is Right for Your Company? Your computer network is vitally important to the success of your business. But, unfortunately, a network is not an item you purchase, set, and forget. Like any other mechanism, your network requires oversight and maintenance, or it’s going to degrade until it’s an…