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Information on the Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses. Clear and simple information to get you started to receiving your aid check.

All too often when we visit a prospective new client, we encounter appallingly entangled network wiring that looks like a bowl of rainbow spaghetti tossed against the wall. Nothing is labeled, and we even see powered down, or disconnected equipment that apparently no longer serves a purpose, yet someone didn’t see fit to remove or tidy up the mess.

Microsoft has made its Automated Incident Response in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) generally available to enterprise customers. The automation feature, announced in preview earlier this April, aims to help security analysts respond faster and more systematically to a barrage of security alerts.

Every firm has an IT Department, even 1-man shops, though that department might be you. Regardless of the size of your firm, certain principals are universal. Virtually every firm manages some combination of internal and external IT resources. Even firms that have completely outsourced IT must still manage their technology if only at a high-level.

Many thanks to IG Tech365 for providing a refurbished laptop for Pastor Reinier Garcel in the Cuban district of Pinar del Rio at the Marti church. The computer will be used for a wide variety of ministry activities as well as study.

....while a backup is absolutely essential and strategic in supporting the overall availability of your business, it is not where you want to expend a major upfront capital investment, and subsequently spend even more money just to keep up with data growth, maintenance, management, and equipment upgrades. It is also not where you want to devote precious IT personnel resources. Let’s talk about cloud backup as service.

One of the few industries that will never see budget cuts is security – especially cyber security. As the world grows ever more complex and connected, our valuable information is increasingly exposed to malicious actors from all corners of the globe.

It’s easy to calculate the cost of new hardware or software. But there’s more to a business case than these hard costs. Delaying your upgrade cycle may save on these costs in the short term, but there are other costs that may start ballooning as your fleet ages beyond its end-of-life. Some of these costs – like the cost of a security breach or reduced productivity – are hard to quantify or predict, but that doesn’t make them any less real. So let’s go over some secret costs of not upgrading your hardware.

Security isn’t only a problem for large companies. Every company is at risk of being hacked. In fact, small businesses are at greater risk because many of them don’t even have a security policy.

Hurricane season is a time of risk assessment, preparation, and training in hopes you never need it. Being prepared means starting months ahead.