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There are few things worse than feeling trapped in an unfulfilling relationship – especially when it’s a vital business relationship. Technology is an integral part of everything your business does, which raises a few important questions about your current IT...

Learn the seven key questions every business should ask when deciding on which Managed Security Service Provider to hire. A Managed Security Service Provider is an extension of your IT services department that focuses solely on the security of your company. The...

There are few things worse than feeling trapped in an unfulfilling relationship – especially when it’s a vital business relationship. Technology is an integral part of everything your business does, which raises a few important questions about your current IT...

Partnering with a Managed Service Provider can offer business owners a way to limit risks and increase productivity. Running a business is hard work, but thankfully there are a lot of tools that can help make it less burdensome. Managed Service Providers...

Get untangled from your landline, and let VoIP boost your business’ efficiency, reliability, and quality. A recent study revealed that 94% of business’ marketing budgets are spent trying to get consumers to call. If businesses are paying so much of their...

Following in the footsteps of other social media giants, Instagram is now trying to add flexibility to their platform in order to attract more business owners. Since their inception in 2010, Instagram has had no way to allow users to schedule posts. Posting manually...

Where you work is no longer defined by four walls and a door – not even by cubicle walls. Gone are the days where productivity requires a set geographical location, at least for some roles, anyway. Recent years have seen the rise of the remote workforce that...

Microsoft has dominated the business world for a long time. It is on every computer, in every office, no matter if that is a library or a Fortune 500 company. We use Microsoft Word to create the newsletters for our businesses and collate our data with...

With the growing threat of viruses, worms, scams and phishing schemes, it seems impossible for computer users to avoid a cyber breach these days. In spite of a massive focus on preventing cybersecurity breaches, it’s still possible to wake up one morning to news...

CEOs are some of the busiest people we’ve ever met, and we’ve met a lot of people. What do CEOs do? The answer to this question is as unique as the company a given CEO is busy running. If we polled every CEO we know and asked what their primary goal is, we’d...

Wi-Fi isn’t just for your computer anymore. These days Wi-Fi is changing the way we make calls from our cellular phones, and this way of calling has a lot to offer. Instead of using the minutes from your cellular plan, you can make a call by connecting to a Wi-Fi...

Businesses store data like we store clothes. How many times do we step into our closets and wonder “When was the last time I wore this”? This is similar to what we, as business owners, should be asking ourselves. “When was the last time I used this data?”...

Your small business is at risk. There’s no way to sugar coat it and no way to say it any more plainly. Every day there are criminals targeting businesses. Why? Because they want your money, they want your private data, or they just want to cause trouble for you. It...

We all wish we had a magic crystal ball that would make our lives easier, whether that means knowing when to change our hairstyle, or when to apply for that dream job. In business, there is no magic crystal ball that will tell us what’s going to happen, but with...

Public Wi-Fi may be convenient, but it’s not necessarily safe. Are you putting your data at risk when you connect? Have you ever been to a Starbucks? Stayed in a hotel? Taken a flight or had a layover? It’d be hard to find a person who can say...

There is no such thing as a safe investment. Investing is a scary business. Most people prefer to work with financial experts when it comes to finding the best place to put their money. Just like them, you’ve worked hard for every penny, and you don’t want to...

Many modern companies are now implementing BYOD policies that permit employees to work with their personal laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Bring your own device (BYOD) to work. Who would have thought, even twenty short years ago, that you could use a little phone...

Technology is amazing when it works for us, but not so amazing when it doesn’t. New tech innovations have helped businesses grow at an exponential rate, but as business technology grows, so does cybercrime. Protecting a business’ security is not only a job...

Cybercrime is a common part of business these days. Even if you haven’t encountered a hacking or malware incident at your business in recent years, the fact is that cybercriminals are coming up with new methods of stealing and compromising sensitive business...

We are addicted to our phones. These little boxes of life give us the capabilities to seamlessly stream Netflix or Hulu, update spreadsheets and respond to emails for work, all from wherever we are at the moment–whether we’re on a train commuting to and from...

In a world that seems to be growing more technologically savvy every day, we must be prepared for anything, from phishing scams to ransomware attacks. But, what if the threat to your business and data isn’t from technological warfare? What if something...

Do you want your Mac to work like a Windows machine? There are many reasons that small to mid-size businesses like yours want this kind of functionality, but the most common reasons are: I don’t like Macs. My employees don’t know how to use Mac OS. I want to make use...

In the fight to avoid security breaches, one area has proven over and over to be the weakest link. It’s the human factor. A survey done by CompTIA shows that human errors are responsible for 52 percent of all security breaches. Each day employees open emails;...

Ransomware has quickly become one of the biggest cyber threats to businesses today, especially given the recent Wanna Cry epidemic that infected hundreds of thousands of IT systems in more 150 countries. This kind of malware presents serious data integrity and...

It’s been coming since 2010—That’s when Steve Jobs announced that Apple was going to kill XServe, its enterprise-level server hardware solution. Ever since that time, Apple has been slowly backing away from the server market. This slow death of Apple server ambitions...

If communication is the key to personal and career success, then we should be doing everything in our power to ensure our communication lines are well established, extremely efficient, and thoroughly secure. Migrating to Office 365 might be what your business needs to...

Data is the foundation of any business. Building a business without protecting your data is like building a home on wet sand, leaving the tide to sweep it away. With all the ways data is being stolen today, there are a few steps you should take to build a secure...

It is becoming commonplace to hear of big security breaches. Consumers wonder how this keeps happening. It would seem like every company should be taking their data security very seriously. After all, a data breach typically costs millions of dollars and tarnishes the...

Once again a hospital has been hit with ransomware, causing staff to rely on pens and paper to keep records and maintain patient care. On January 11th, Indiana’s Hancock Regional Hospital was infected with ransomware by an “unknown party” that has...

We recently came across some chilling news. A white hat hacker developed a working “Ransomcloud” strain, that encrypts cloud e-mail accounts like those in Office 365, and it does this in real time. This strain uses a smart social engineering tactic to...

The problem with email Email has been around for decades, and yet it hasn’t changed much. We must sort through dozens of messages to find the ones that matter. Only a small percentage of the emails we receive are important to view; the rests are advertisements...

Not only are healthcare organizations at risk due to cybercrime, so are their patients. Imagine having to turn away patients because your computers are shut down due to a ransomware attack. Or, having to “blindly” treat your patients because you...

More than 20 years ago, retail began to shift from the shopping mall to online shopping. Amazon.com, the brainchild of Jeff Bezos, had been around for a few years. It was born as an online bookstore in 1995. A brilliant premise, Amazon offered a digital “storefront”...

There’s some good news for the 1.4 million people of Ontario: The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (Bill 148) was passed into law on November 22, 2017, and took effect on January 1, 2018.  The bill includes better wages and working conditions for workers...

January 28th, 2018 is Data Privacy Day, an international effort led by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) annually for the purpose of raising awareness about the importance of safeguarding data. Data Privacy Day commemorates the signing of Convention 108,...

If you’re not doing everything in your power to protect your data, you’re leaving your most valuable business asset open to cybercriminals! January 28th, 2018 is Data Privacy Day, an international effort led by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA)...

With every New Year comes the chance to reset priorities. Unfortunately, when the topic of implementing a data recovery plan comes up, the comment we most often hear is “I know I should, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet…” So…what if the pilot on the next flight...

With Mardi Gras fast approaching, there will be a million people in New Orleans all looking for fun times, and good Internet connections. (Okay, maybe not all one million of them — but enough to keep you on your toes.) Using public WiFi safely during Mardi Gras will...

With the rising number of cyber thefts in the US, numerous lawsuits have been filed against businesses and organizations. In general, the public expects that their bank will take sufficient action to stop data theft. We expect this of the federal government, credit...