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Author Archives: Rick Ferreira

Onboarding Employees for the Remote-Work Era

Onboarding Employees for the Remote-Work Era If your company is like most, you have more employees working remotely than ever before, and you are hiring new workers specifically for remote work. There are many concerns connected to this trend, which we discuss, below, but since we are an IT consulting firm, we’re most attuned to…


Why Every Business Enterprise Needs a Data Backup & Disaster Recovery Plan

Why Every Business Enterprise Needs a Data Backup & Disaster Recovery Plan Because Plan A is not guaranteed, everyone needs a Plan B. It’s why baseball teams have bullpens, trunks carry spare tires, and guitarists pack extra strings. It’s why businesses build controls into their processes and diversify their sources for materials, goods and services.…


How IT Outsourcing Can Improve Your Company’s Cyber Security

How IT Outsourcing Can Improve Your Company’s Cyber Security Imagine losing access to every computer in your business for several days. Imagine also that someone gained access to your customer database and came away with private information, such as credit card numbers. The cost to your business in lost earnings, damaged reputation and liability for…


Multi-Factor Authentication: An Extra Line of Defense Against Hackers

Have you calculated how much a data breach could cost your company? According to Microsoft, the average loss from a data breach is $4.2 million, but many breaches are far more expensive. Given those risks, you’ve got to implement the most up-to-date safeguards available. And at the moment, that means Multi-Factor Authentication, or MFA. MFA…


Back It Up: 3 Ways to Keep Your IT Safe

Disaster has struck – you login to your businesses network and everything is gone. What do you do now? What should have you done to prevent this from happening? Luckily, losing your information in today’s world doesn’t mean losing it forever. Sometimes your equipment malfunctions and wipes everything clean but that doesn’t mean we can’t…


4 Tips for Harmonizing Your Business and IT Strategies

Strategic planning is an essential determinant of a company’s future success or organization for any business or organization. However, sometimes it gets difficult to ensure that all the implemented strategies and plans reach every business department. This can make it difficult for those in leadership positions to visualize those strategies and align them effectively. To…