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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

When Insurance Companies Ask Your Business About Its Cybersecurity

When Insurance Companies Ask Your Business About Its Cybersecurity

You might have noticed that business insurance companies are starting to show an interest in how you are protecting your technology and data. If your org has been in touch with your insurance provider regarding modifying or renewing your business insurance, you were likely handed a lengthy questionnaire about your cybersecurity. Let’s take a look together to help you make informed decisions on how to handle your IT and how to prevent your insurance costs from skyrocketing.

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What Your Business Needs to Know about the FTC Safeguards Rule

What Your Business Needs to Know about the FTC Safeguards Rule

The United States Federal Trade Commission’s mandate is to prevent fraud and promote consumer protection in today's interconnected world, where the digital landscape continues to evolve at a frenzied pace. The FTC recognizes the importance of safeguarding consumer information and has implemented their Safeguards Rule as a means to ensure that businesses protect sensitive data from unauthorized access and misuse. Listed below is a look at the Safeguards Rule and what you need to know about it in regard to your organization. 

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Some IT Compliance Requirements Your Business May Need to Know

Some IT Compliance Requirements Your Business May Need to Know

Compliance is an imperative element of many businesses’ requirements, with severe penalties as a consequence if the prescribed standards are not met. Even more critically, most compliance requirements and regulations are put in place for the welfare of not only the business, but its clientele as well. This makes it important to know which apply to your business, and how to meet them fully.

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Is Your Organization Following Business Compliance Regulations?

Is Your Organization Following Business Compliance Regulations?

Every business’ clients trust that they’re taking every measure possible to protect data, like personal information or financial records. That being said, with the number of businesses using electronic records continuing to climb, along with the rise of cybercrime, many industries have begun to impose regulations and compliances that are designed to keep personal information secure. Health and finance are two of the most heavily regulated industries, with the government having stepped in and set a specific standard of data security regulations that these companies must comply with. 

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What Your Business Needs to Know About Cloud Computing

What Your Business Needs to Know About Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has been touted as one of the most innovative and important technologies for smaller businesses as they look to compete with larger companies. How it makes this possible is by offering dynamic computing environments that can help bring these smaller businesses into the information age without saddling them with massive infrastructure costs while doing so. That’s not to say that the cloud is cheap by any means, and this month we will discuss how cloud computing is a great option for nearly any business. 

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What You Need to Know About Your Business’ Cybersecurity Compliance

What You Need to Know About Your Business’ Cybersecurity Compliance

Regardless of your industry, there are going to be certain regulatory standards that you will be responsible for upholding. Many of these standards will be related in some way to your cybersecurity. Some of these cybersecurity standards are listed below, as is why compliance is so imperative for your business.

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Explaining the Zero-Trust Model

Explaining the Zero-Trust Model

Considering what the modern cyberthreat environment looks like, more and more rigorous cybersecurity is strictly needed. One way that businesses can accomplish this is a cybersecurity practice known as a zero-trust model.

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What Your Business Needs to Know about Compliance Reporting

What Your Business Needs to Know about Compliance Reporting

Some industries require more compliance than others, as they handle sensitive data on a regular basis. In efforts to protect this data, governments and agencies have implemented laws, regulations, and other requirements to ensure businesses remain compliant with this expectation.

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Why Your Business Should Consider a Private Cloud Solution

Why Your Business Should Consider a Private Cloud Solution

The cloud is a great opportunity for businesses to enhance accessibility of data and increase productivity, especially while remote, but for those who do not know how to approach it, the cloud can be intimidating. Listed below is the case for a private cloud solution and why you should consider it as a viable option for your business, even if it does not seem like it at the moment. 

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Considering the Potential Impacts of Big Tech Antitrust Legislation

Considering the Potential Impacts of Big Tech Antitrust Legislation

There are now five bipartisan bills being considered in the United States House of Representatives, strictly intended to help put some checks on the power that modern technology giants have. Below we consider what these bills are, and why the current business environment has inspired them.

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Are Your Organization's Security Priorities in the Right Place?

Are Your Organization's Security Priorities in the Right Place?

According to a survey conducted by Splunk and Enterprise Strategy Group, more business leaders plan to funnel funding into their cybersecurity; 88 percent of respondents reported a planned increase into their investments, 35 percent reporting that these boosts will be substantial. Listed below are a few of the insights that this survey has revealed.

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Comprehending the Connection Between HIPAA and HITRUST

Comprehending the Connection Between HIPAA and HITRUST

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA, is a serious concern for all healthcare providers that operate within the United States. Since August 1996, HIPAA has mandated that these healthcare providers comply with various best practices. While HIPAA is relatively familiar to many people for assorted reasons, fewer know about HITRUST (the Health Information Trust Alliance) and how these acronyms ultimately cooperate with one another.

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It’s Important to Meet Compliance Regulations

It’s Important to Meet Compliance Regulations

Most organizations have compliance regulations they need to meet. 2021 is becoming somewhat of a tipping point for some. Businesses are dealing with the development of new data privacy laws that will surely add some responsibilities on top of already established regulations. Below is a look at compliance and why it is critical to stay on top of it. 

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Alert: If Your Business Network is Running Windows Server, You Need to Have Updates Applied ASAP

Alert: If Your Business Network is Running Windows Server, You Need to Have Updates Applied ASAP

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released an emergency directive concerning a critical exploit known as Zerologon, which affects servers running Windows Server operating systems that needs to get patched as soon as possible.

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Does Your Business Accept Card Payments? Then You Must Maintain PCI Compliance

Does Your Business Accept Card Payments? Then You Must Maintain PCI Compliance

Many modern businesses accept payment cards. To secure people’s personal and financial information when conducting transactions using credit, debit, and gift cards, the companies that stand to lose the most if these transactions are compromised: Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express, have implemented industry-wide compliance regulations. This regulation is called PCI DSS, short for Payment Card Index Digital Security Standard. Listed below is a look at this regulation.

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Is Cloud Security Something Your Business Should Worry About?

Is Cloud Security Something Your Business Should Worry About?

If you are under the impression that working with the cloud doesn’t have risks, than you need to reconsider that line of thought. It’s inevitable that you’ll face security compliance concerns when it comes to your cloud-based data. If your business has data stored in a cloud-based environment, you need to pay particularly close attention to how compliance laws affect the way that you access and store this information. How can your organization ensure that your cloud-based data isn’t in violation of some cloud compliance laws?

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What is the MSPs Role in Maintaining a Regulation Compliant IT Infrastructure?

What is the MSPs Role in Maintaining a Regulation Compliant IT Infrastructure?

As a business, your clients trust that you’re taking every measure possible to protect data, like personal information or financial records. However, with the number of businesses using electronic records continuing to climb, along with the rise of cybercrime attacks, many industries have begun to impose regulations and compliances that are designed to keep personal information secure. Health and finance are two of the most heavily regulated industries, with the government having stepped in and set a specific standard of data security regulations that these companies must comply with.

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Half of Executives are Unclear on Data Compliance Laws. Are You?

Half of Executives are Unclear on Data Compliance Laws. Are You?

Regardless of what industry a company is classified under, they all are responsible for upholding particular standards to ensure compliance with industry regulations. However, according to the 2016 State of Compliance survey, a shockingly high number of organizations were shown to be a bit fuzzy on their requirements.

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Alaskan Healthcare Organization Hit with Huge Fine for HIPAA Violation

b2ap3_thumbnail_fines_imposed_for_hipaa_400.jpgAmerican healthcare organizations must store and exchange patient data in ways that comply with the HIPAA law, or else face hefty fines. One mental health service in Alaska recently learned this lesson the hard way after being hit with a $150,000 fine. Is your healthcare organization’s IT infrastructure 100 percent HIPAA compliant?

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