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Your Eight-Character Passwords are Truly Obsolete

For literal decades, we heard that a good password required a few key traits to be secure: a capital letter, a number, and eight characters. How times have changed, right? Now, the baseline standards are similar… just multiplied to the nth degree. Let’s discuss why this is, what modern businesses now need to do, and […]

3 Simple Cybersecurity Lessons for the Modern Business Environment

Sometimes the toughest lessons that hurt the most are the ones we need the most, as is the case with anything cybersecurity related. You don’t want to experience a data breach, regardless of how it’s caused, but preventing them is a bit more challenging than you might at first expect. If you want to avoid […]

What to Do Before (And After) a Data Breach

One of the biggest myths out there related to cybersecurity is that criminals only go after the big enterprises. Why should they care about your small operation, anyway? In reality, cybercriminals love to attack small businesses to take advantage of their weaker security infrastructures. If you’re not careful, this could lead to serious losses for […]

You Need to Temperature-Proof Your Business, Starting with Its Infrastructure

The climate is a weird, weird thing… and when you introduce it to your critical business tech, things only get weirder. Extreme temperatures are harmful to technology at whichever end of the spectrum you’re talking about, hot or cold. In short, the wrong temperature conditions can kill your tech prematurely. This makes it essential that […]

5 IT Mistakes That Reset Your Progress (And Your Profits)

Did you know that industry data suggests that the average small business loses over $10,000 per year simply by making “common-sense” IT decisions that lack a long-term strategy? In fact, most IT decision-makers look at technology as little more than a utility, like water or electricity, rather than a competitive advantage. IT is not a […]

Three Disasters That Could Shut Down Your Business

What is the actual price tag of a worst-case scenario? Most business owners view IT as a safety net, something that only needs to be there to catch them when things break. But here is the cold, hard truth: If you are waiting for the crash to happen before you take action, you have already […]

Why Your Business Needs an IT Roadmap Today

Let me pose a (hopefully) hypothetical scenario: your business has relied on your server since 2019. Each and every day, it handles every request that your business has had of it, but on an otherwise uneventful Tuesday, it suddenly conks out, dead as a doornail. So, what do you do? This is just one example […]

The 3-2-1-1 Rule Adds an Extra Layer of Security for Your Redundancies

Backups are a common subject in IT and in business alike. You can think of them like your spare key or the spare tire, where they are the emergency fix for when you do something silly or something unexpected comes along. But with business, the stakes are higher, and when your company’s data is at […]

Don’t Let Your Office Move Become an IT Crisis

Relocating your office is a major milestone, but treating your IT infrastructure like just another box of supplies is a recipe for a Monday morning meltdown. The difference between a seamless transition and a week of lost productivity often comes down to early planning. If your company is eyeing a new space in the next […]