A cybersecurity budget can seem like a daunting thing to calculate for any size organization, but it doesn't have to be. As long as you and your executive team assess and understand the risks you face, and the solutions you need to protect against them, you can...
SMB Best Practices
How to Protect Your Business Before It’s Too Late
IT security consists of multiple facets and is crucial in today's deeply digitized world. As a business owner, your IT components—the sensitive data, software, and hardware—are the backbone of your company’s success. So, it’s crucial to protect them beyond just hack...
Simple Steps to Improve Your Company’s Cybersecurity
As a general rule, digital security—for companies and web-connected organizations of all types—is subject to all sorts of potential threats. These could come from online organized crime, hostile foreign governments, individual hackers, and fraudsters with a penchant for stealing data or funds.
Why Your Business Needs a Managed Services Provider
How secure is your business from cyber threats? Take a look at some of these latest cybersecurity statistics: As of late 2021, the number of malware infections against individual computers and business networks has increased by over 2000% since a decade ago. Roughly...
Improving Work-From-Home Security
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]According to research from security software provider Malwarebytes, roughly 20% of organizations may have suffered a security breach caused by remote workers since the beginning of the COVID pandemic. This is a worrying but...
6 Essential Server Maintenance Tips You Can’t Ignore
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] If you’re executing a good deal of programs from your server instead of the cloud, you’re going to have to provide extensive regular maintenance for your server. Even if you don’t have to use your server much, it’s still wise to...
SMB Best Practices: 7 Key Practices to Sales Success
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]According to Pipeline Deals, "If you're in a small or medium-sized business, you're always looking for an edge to maximize your sales success." No doubt for every SMB we encounter, especially when we are providing IT support to...
SMB Best Practices: Why Do You Procrastinate?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today we share a post from our guest bloggers at Organizing4u.com as part of our Small Business Best Practices series. SMB owners have a lot on their plates, to say the least. Procrastination can harm the success of your...
Important steps to getting started with cloud computing
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The following is a guest post from Avatara LLC. Great Lakes Computer is proud to be a partner/reseller of their CompleteCloud product. When considering a transition to the cloud, it’s important to know what questions to ask and...
Protecting Yourself Against Cyberattacks
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today's post on IT security from cyber attacks is shared courtesy of Todd Pouliot of Gateway Financial, LLC: 25% of Americans were cyberhacked between March 2014 and March 2015. The American Institute of CPAs announced that alarming...