Improve Home Office Productivity and Security
With the right solutions, you can navigate the challenges that arose when businesses across Minnesota and the country quickly switched to remote work in the middle of a pandemic. You can arm your team with the right tools and education so cybercriminals don’t take...
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Secure Your Remote Workforce from Cyberattacks
In light of the ongoing pandemic, many companies have been forced to shift the way they do business. With offices closed for the foreseeable future, most companies wanting to stay in business have turned to remote work. Unless your business had a remote workforce...
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Making the Transition to Co-Managed IT
Your IT team has to be flexible. They handle functions as diverse as network security, hardware installation and email server setup. In today’s digital era, they’re the people who keep your business up and running 24/7. However, there is a major downside to having a...
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Demonstrating Compliance with Data Security Regulations Can Be Easy if You’re Prepared
These days, most businesses are subject to data protection laws and compliance regulations of one kind or another. Whether you use credit cards or work in an industry like healthcare or finance, with specific rules about the collection, access and safekeeping of...
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Strengthen Your Passwords and Improve Your Security
If you use the same password for multiple systems –business email, your company’s cloud bookkeeping solution, online shopping etc. – you’re not alone. Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg used that practice. And, in 2016 his LinkedIn credentials were compromised in a...
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Why 2019 was the Worst Year for Cybersecurity
During the first half of 2019, approximately 3,800 data breaches occurred, representing a 54% increase over 2018. Media reports on the most high-profile breaches have instilled a general impression among consumers that is consistent with the facts: in the public’s...
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Why Your Employees Are a Cybersecurity Risk
Companies today collect an enormous range and quantity of personal information from and about their customers. This is a natural consequence of the staggering growth in e-commerce and information-based business services. Even small-town storefronts have more customer...
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What to Do When Your Business Suffers a Network Security Breach
Even when you do everything right with your network security, it’s all too easy to get breached. It just takes one of your employees using their work email address on websites and using that same password to access your network. ADP, Paychex, Gmail, Salesforce,...
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5 Warning Signs of a Phishing Email
Rather than raise awareness, headlines like “85% of large companies have been hacked” often leave small and midsize businesses with the false impression that their size and anonymity will protect them from attack. In fact, not only are small and midsize businesses...
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Security Breaches Aren’t ‘If’ but ‘When’: Your Security Needs to be Managed
Security is not a question of “if” but “when” In the medieval era, kings didn’t plan for “if” their castle would get attacked. They knew it was a matter of “when.” They planned accordingly with both defensive and offensive strategies that protected the perimeter, the...
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