How many security solutions does your business have implemented at any given time? Traditionally, businesses have implemented what we call “point solutions,” which are software tools designed to address a specific part of your security infrastructure. While this approach is better than not having security at all, it presents several issues that must also be addressed in order to most effectively protect your business.
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Maintaining your organization's technology can be a lot to handle, especially if you don’t have any IT staff members on hand to dedicate to its management. Managed services make this process a lot simpler, ensuring that, amongst other key benefits, your desktop solutions remain up-to-date and prepared for anything. Listed below are three basic tips to follow to ensure your desktops remain maintained.
One of the fastest-growing services in healthcare is telehealth. If you aren’t familiar with this concept, it is essentially a virtual meeting designed to provide faster and more direct healthcare consultations and stabilize the ever-rising costs of healthcare. With health information being one of the most attractive to hackers, it is imperative to be mindful to do everything you can to protect your data. Listed below are four tips to help you successfully navigate the risks inherent with telehealth.
Businesses need vendors for several things, whether for services rendered or the acquisition of technology. Alas, the act of managing so many vendors can be draining and time-consuming for companies. What is the forward-thinking organization to do, and how can it overcome the challenges of vendor management?
When looking to reduce your costs, one of the best places to start looking is at your printing. While paper documents were once incredibly critical for businesses (they still serve a function), no one can deny that they take up a considerable amount of space in the workplace, as well as take up precious assets that could be better spent elsewhere. What’s the best way to minimize the resources you spend on printing?
It doesn’t matter where your business is located; whether it’s a tornado that comes through your city, a structural fire that renders your office uninhabitable, or a wild snowstorm that brings down power lines or grinds travel to a halt, you’ll want to be ready for it all. Listed below are the types of solutions your organization can implement to ensure that no disaster, be it natural or artificial, like a cyberattack, puts a stop to your operations.
If you aren’t versed in business technology, locating the right solutions can be challenging, to say the least. Technology should make your life easier, not more difficult. Listed below are a couple of tips to help you get started with deploying the right technology solutions for your business. Here are three tips to help you make the best, most educated decisions about the technology for your business.
Your organization’s email is one of its most imperative pieces of technology, and since that is true for nearly every business, it is unfortunately one of the most utilized attack vectors used by cybercriminals. Most companies don’t comprehend just how vulnerable they are if their email isn’t properly secured and do their best to keep their employees trained on how to spot potential scams.
With many people continuing to work remotely to at least some extent, it would be irresponsible not to acknowledge that remote work can introduce a level of risk to a company's cybersecurity. This makes it all the more imperative that this security is locked down. Listed below is a discussion about the concept behind zero-trust security, and why it is becoming the benchmark that businesses of all sizes should meet.
Video conferencing has become a popular way for businesses and their team members to communicate, with many platforms rising up to meet this demand. This growth brings up the question of how one goes about picking the best one for their organization’s needs. Listed below are a few features that should be present in any option you consider for you to keep in mind.
Paper can be very expensive, especially with the quantity that a normal business goes through every single day. Not only is it costly on the monetary side, but also on the environmental side as well. By making some changes around your office, you can be more eco-friendly and budget-friendly by limiting the amount of paper waste your business suffers from.
With businesses handling operations in different ways, their employees must adapt to the circumstances handed to them. Some businesses have begun to experiment with the status quo and are for the first time realizing the value that can come from permitting staff to work remotely. Listed below are some of the ways your team might depend on technology to make remote collaboration effective and how you can optimize your experience with these collaborative platforms.
Being productive is the goal of most people; not only to do a task well in a set time, but to do multiple tasks equally well in the same timeframe. Many experts and consultants have created strategies meant to boost an employee’s productivity, and a handful of them actually work. This month, we’ll review a few of these strategies so you can give them a try for yourself.
A lot of businesses are making large technology investments; if you are here now, you are probably thinking about making such an investment for your own company. One issue that growing companies have is identifying and investing in the right technology. Listed below are a couple of tips on how to go about making technology investment decisions that will be the most advantageous for your company.
Instant messaging is a technology that has picked up considerably in the business world, and for good reason. While email allows for more passive communication, instant messaging allows for more instantaneous communication, similar to a phone call in its urgency. But are you utilizing instant messaging to enhance your work life?