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How to Choose the Right Printer for Your Business
You're about to read the most exciting and interesting blog of the year. Hang on tight. This one's a doozy! How to pick a printer! Okay… so maybe my enthusiasm is a bit much for something that puts ink on paper. When I told my colleagues that I was writing a blog on...
It is Time to Partner with a Managed IT Service Provider
Managed Services Providers are IT BUSINESS PARTNERS that exist to deliver services such as IT infrastructure, planning, network administration, cybersecurity, and much more. These services are generally outside the business's scope of work yet critical to the...
5 Things You Should Do RIGHT NOW to Preserve Your Network and Systems
1. Back up Files Every Day As catastrophic as data loss is, the number of businesses that still are not backing up their network is unbelievable. According to the Symantec Small to Medium Size Businesses (SMB) data, only 23% of SMBs are backing up their data daily,...
3 Things to Think About Before Hiring Another Inside IT Person
While it may seem like a good idea to hire additional internal IT staff, this blog is going to line out why instead, you should look to hire a partner to Co-manage your IT. Let's line out the key factors that influence the decision regarding hiring an additional...
IT Service Management Trends in 2021
Technology is always evolving to meet the needs of the organizations it serves. In 2020 the adoption of technologies to enable remote work, flexible work, and collaboration accelerated. This sudden push to embrace new and unknown solutions strained many businesses and...
5 Ways to Reduce Downtime and Prevent IT Problems at Work!
It may not come as a surprise that operating a business is an expensive venture. When a business is faced with technical problems on their network, software or equipment, costs go beyond just a financial standpoint. The time that employees spend trying to fix these...
MANAGED CYBERSECURITY
The Dangers of the Inbox
Every now and then, an email with a catchy subject line appears in your inbox and you end up clicking on it, either because you’re curious about the subject line or because you assume the sender is trustworthy. Unfortunately, this is how most cyberattacks tend to...
Top 10 Ways Cybersecurity Threats and the Pandemic are Alike
I never thought, even after countless Hollywood’s dystopian movies I have seen, I’d experience a pandemic in my lifetime. A cybersecurity incident on the other hand, I absolutely knew I would experience. Either on behalf of a client, or within the walls of my own...
Your Office 365 credentials are on the Dark Web. No sweat!
I just received an alert from my organization’s identity monitoring service stating one of my employee’s Office 365 email credentials were found on the Dark Web. Now let us get real for a minute. When the prince of Nigeria emails you requesting a transfer of $1000...
Top 5 reasons you should care about Managed Detection and Response (MDR)
Managed Detection and Response is a suite of tools designed to detect and alert on security related events. Like an invisible mustache, things could be happening right under your nose and you wouldn’t even know it. Below you will find a few questions that can help...
3 Cybersecurity Mistakes You All Are STILL Making
Blog Written by Kayla Blaedow, Application Specialist at First Call Computer Solutions Cybercriminals are only interested in large corporations. WRONG. This misconception comes from media and news outlets feeding us data breach information of larger...
How to Spot Phishing Attacks
Imagine that you are a fish swimming in a big pond full of other fishes and you spot something that you think is food. You immediately swim over and start inspecting the “food” in question. How can you tell if what you see is food or a rubber imposter that is waiting...
MANAGED WORKPLACE
Bank Begins to Reinvest in Technology
Pioneer Federal Savings and Loan Association Pioneer Federal Savings and Loan Association is dedicated to providing quality services and products to its customers, all the while remaining financially strong and adding value to the quality of life in the communities it...
Ditch Your Desk Phone
How do you currently view your business phone system? Is it flexible and adaptable, or a stubborn mule that refuses to budge? Wouldn’t it be nice if your current system worked with you rather than against you? Many business owners are unaware of how embracing a...
Embrace the CHANGE BLOG
The first password I ever created was 3232; it was my basketball jersey number twice. That was not exactly a secure password, but I could use it and not have any issues for years. Unfortunately, times now are no so simple. A four-character numeric password would be...
Partnering with Partners in Home Care
As a Home Health and Hospice agency, Partners In Home Care, Inc is passionately committed to assisting patients and families in achieving optimal health, independence, and comfort through high-quality, cost-effective home and community health-related services....
Cybersecurity is like Ogres
Is your business's approach to cybersecurity more like Humpty Dumpty than Shrek? No, I'm not crazy, but I'm sure you are thinking, "What the heck is this guy talking about?" Let me say it a little different, does your cybersecurity have a hard exterior with a soft...
Montana CMMC Assistance
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification or CMMC is seemingly overwhelming. A new cybersecurity framework, five different levels of maturity, 17 capability domains, 43 capabilities/, 171 practices, 3rd party assessors, defense contracting requirements, and...
MANAGED VOICE
How to Choose the Right Printer for Your Business
You're about to read the most exciting and interesting blog of the year. Hang on tight. This one's a doozy! How to pick a printer! Okay… so maybe my enthusiasm is a bit much for something that puts ink on paper. When I told my colleagues that I was writing a blog on...
It is Time to Partner with a Managed IT Service Provider
Managed Services Providers are IT BUSINESS PARTNERS that exist to deliver services such as IT infrastructure, planning, network administration, cybersecurity, and much more. These services are generally outside the business's scope of work yet critical to the...
5 Things You Should Do RIGHT NOW to Preserve Your Network and Systems
1. Back up Files Every Day As catastrophic as data loss is, the number of businesses that still are not backing up their network is unbelievable. According to the Symantec Small to Medium Size Businesses (SMB) data, only 23% of SMBs are backing up their data daily,...
3 Things to Think About Before Hiring Another Inside IT Person
While it may seem like a good idea to hire additional internal IT staff, this blog is going to line out why instead, you should look to hire a partner to Co-manage your IT. Let's line out the key factors that influence the decision regarding hiring an additional...
IT Service Management Trends in 2021
Technology is always evolving to meet the needs of the organizations it serves. In 2020 the adoption of technologies to enable remote work, flexible work, and collaboration accelerated. This sudden push to embrace new and unknown solutions strained many businesses and...
5 Ways to Reduce Downtime and Prevent IT Problems at Work!
It may not come as a surprise that operating a business is an expensive venture. When a business is faced with technical problems on their network, software or equipment, costs go beyond just a financial standpoint. The time that employees spend trying to fix these...
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