The holidays are filled with good food, family time, friend visits, and exchanging gifts. However, to keep the season bright and merry, be cautious during your next gift exchange, as many gifts can present some unexpected risks to your recipient’s security. Be mindful...

How does your organization manage its IT? For some businesses, it’s not an easy choice or even a remotely affordable one. Some companies are forced to endure subpar services from break-fix IT providers that don’t necessarily have the tools available to prevent issues...

Selecting a managed service provider should be like selecting any employee. You need to make sure that your expectations are going to be fulfilled, and that your selection will be there when you need them to be. However, the criteria you examine your potential IT...

How well do you know Microsoft Excel, the premier spreadsheet building software? Depending on your proficiency, you may already be familiar with some of the various keyboard shortcuts. We’ll list some of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts to help you to become...

The modern small business will face several challenges in 2018. The world is changing, and with it, so is business. For many small businesses, this can either be looked on as the opportunity they’ve been waiting for, or, it can be viewed as the beginning of the end....

While many different people open businesses, the primary reason that they all do so is to make money. A positive cash flow is essential if the business is to generate funds that support a cause or provide a decent living. However, to collect this cash flow, a business...

In today’s political, social, and economic environment, information is more valuable than ever. However, this increased importance, paired with the speed that data can be dispersed via the Internet, has enabled many to use false information to manipulate the general...

It’s no industry secret that one of the most important technology pieces is a data backup solution. However, this is like saying that every business should have a plant. The type of plant, and (by extension) the type of data backup, does matter. You want a data backup...

As a managed service provider, we’re naturally going to be a little biased when comparing the positives and negatives of an in-house IT team versus an outsourced approach. However, each has its benefits in the right situations, and each can have its downsides. Today,...

If your business were to be struck by a Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack, would it recover in a timely manner? Do you have measures put in place to keep it from hampering your operations? While most organizations claim to have sufficient protection against...