Verizon found that nearly a quarter of breaches involve phishing. Attackers send out highly sophisticated, well-researched phishing emails, and without the benefit of managed IT services, they have an alarming success rate.
While the end might just be in sight for the global COVID-19 pandemic, it’s impact on the way we work is likely to be longer term. We expect work-from-home to remain a popular option, even after lockdown restrictions lift. Last year demonstrated that people in a wide range of industries could perform almost as well from home as from an office.
Every year Southeast Massachusetts businesses lose time, data and money to hackers. Here in 2021, WFH is the norm and more and more small business processes run on vulnerable IT systems. Better security is the only way to prevent a catastrophic security breach.
Managing all your operation’s IT services components can be complicated, but it is critical to your business’s success. Your employees rely on IT to keep the computers, software, and email running smoothly. Your customers rely on IT for data security, smooth operations, and effective customer interactions.
If you’re a business leader, that probably hit hard. In today’s connected era, you are going to have trouble with the rapid pace of IT change. Maybe it’s a generational issue – baby boomers in senior management are used to running things the way they always have.
Your business has remained steady through the summer and fall, but you are still cautious about making any big investments. You want to conduct operations in a cost-effective and efficient manner, but your IT issues are driving you mad. Staff at home can’t connect to network files, computers in one room can’t talk to computers in another room and employees are using their cell phones for sending emails.
Your job title is business manager, business owner or healthcare worker. But we know the real story, you wear so many hats, there isn’t a business card in the world that can name all the functions you handle from day to day. You don’t have time to resolve the normal challenges of your actual job, much less having to try and figure out why your computers won’t talk to each other, your data is missing or your employees are having trouble accessing their files from home.
You hear an increasing amount of grumbling regarding the state of your IT services from your staff. Various pieces of equipment continue to break down, and slow technology makes it hard to complete even the most basic tasks.
Your company has tried to make repairs before, with piecemeal solutions that attack various problems as they arise, but nothing gets to the root of the problem.
Laptops are prized for their small size, manageable weight, and handiness, but they don’t lag behind desktop computers in terms of performance either. Higher-end laptops, in particular, are just as capable of handling heavy apps and complex tasks as their bulkier desktop counterparts.
When a technology that promises to halve your current expenses sounds too good to be true, it usually is. So when it comes to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and its claims of radically reducing phone costs, what’s the catch? Here are some issues you need to watch out for.
