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...
IT security
Essential Two-Factor Authentication Basics
One of the unvarying truths of the digital world in which all of us–business owners or consumers–operate is that cybercriminals constantly evolve their attacks. This means that the things we used to do for secure access to sensitive account systems like online banking, stock apps, or email accounts usually have to evolve too. One of these evolutionary methods has been two-factor authentication, also known as TFA or 2FA.
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.
Now In Sandusky! Broader Reach, Same Great Service.
Great Lakes Computer is opening a convenient new location! While the headquarters will remain in Avon, Ohio, we are adding a satellite office near downtown Sandusky. This prime spot will enable us to better serve our traditional business customers in Northwestern...
What to Look For in an IT Outsourcing Provider
Many small to medium sized businesses today at some point or another consider IT outsourcing. Gaining access to enterprise level IT support at SMB prices makes a lot of business sense. But, as with any vendor, it's important to find the right Managed Services...
Transferring Cybersecurity Risk is About to Get Complicated
Many organizations have historically made decisions to transfer cybersecurity risk by purchasing a cybersecurity liability insurance policy from an insurance carrier. Transferring risk has become popular because the magnitude and variety of cybersecurity risk that...
Why Business Cybersecurity is a Huge Problem for 2022
The Great Lakes Computer Security Stack
How to Expose (or Uncover) Your IT Security Risks
Conducting a vulnerability assessment is important because the exercise will identify security flaws that exist in your information technology environment before they are discovered by a malicious computer hacker. Once the vulnerabilities are discovered, you can...
Guest Wi-Fi – A Necessary Evil
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The more windows and doors you put into a house, the more points of access a would-be intruder has. Your internet connection, your servers, your employees smartphones and laptops, and your WiFi controlled thermostat are all windows...
Crucial Managed IT Services Benefits for Your Business
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] IT maintenance is fundamental for just about every business in today's world. It's important for the most basic reason that IT is an inescapable part of managing even a tiny company, and also for the sake of firm security. The...