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How a vCIO Can Boost Your Business Performance

Technology is a vital component of any modern business regardless of industry but managing it effectively can be challenging and costly. While you could attempt to maintain and manage your systems yourself, if you are not an expert you can do a lot more harm than good. A second option is hiring a full-time Chief […]

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4 Common Technology Budgeting Mistakes

Are you planning to include your IT needs in your annual budget this year? If so, congratulations! You are doing something incredible to ensure your small business’ success.  Budgeting for your business can be tricky and technology budgeting is no different. On the one hand, you want to be ready for anything, but you also […]

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Security Policy

  What are Security Policies and Why do you Need Them?   One of the most critical services your MSSP (Managed Service and Security Provider) can provide is to identify your greatest risk areas for a security data breach. Typically, your biggest vulnerabilities are not only within your IT environment, but in the processes, policies, […]

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Prioritize IT Gaps – Jan 2022

Technology Gap Review- Going beyond Cybersecurity Today’s technology-based businesses must deal with multiple issues, including cyberthreats, head-to-head competition and regulatory compliance. Hence, keeping your technology infrastructure up to date is critical, and performing a technology assessment is the best place to start. A technology assessment is more than just looking for cybersecurity concerns. It can […]

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The Summer of Managed Services

Going away for the summer? Adding an MSSP to your team, the cost-effective way to back up your internal team and support your network. In today’s economy, all companies either big or small will need some form of IT infrastructure.  Whether it is handling payments, client data, or simply working on presentations or proposals, just […]

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The COMB: Compilation of Many Breaches. It’s is a very big deal.

On February 2, 2021, it was reported that the COMB was leaked on a popular hacking forum.  This is quite possibly the largest data leak in history, as it contains 3.2 Billion unique pairs of emails and passwords. To put it in perspective, the entire population on the planet is 7.8 Billion people.  That means […]

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Business Technology MSP

What is a Managed Service Provider?

A Managed Service Provider, often referred to as an MSP, is an organization’s partner that cares for their information technology (IT) infrastructure – thus enabling it to function more effectively and efficiently.    An MSP manages a customer’s IT infrastructure and/or end-user systems – either remotely or onsite – typically on a proactive basis and under […]

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7 Things Your Managed Service Provider Should Provide

You’re busy running a business. You have employees to manage and when things are going well, it becomes easy to neglect your day-to-day IT maintenance. We get it, which is why we’ve put together this list of the top 7 things that your Managed Services Provider should be providing for you no matter what.