Is Your Microsoft 365 Data Fully Recoverable?
Adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms like Microsoft 365® remains high even as in-person work opportunities return. Assuming your data is completely protected by your cloud application provider is a mistake that could have devastating consequences for your business. Remember, the loss of business-critical data can result in costly disruptions and operational downtime, hefty regulatory penalties, reputation damage, or even the loss
Disasters that Could Hurt Your Hospitality Business
2020 lockdowns and travel restrictions posed challenges to the hospitality industry. Without guests, hotels were forced to lay off workers just to keep the lights on. Even the five star Pierre Hotel in New York City was among those hit hardest, forcing layoffs and limiting events just for the hope of returning to days gone by. All the while, hackers
Costs of Ransomware to Your Business
There’s a meme floating around the interweb in which an employee candidate is asked what makes him suitable for the job. His response is that he hacked into the system and invited himself for a job. While that made us chuckle, our team understands the importance of not allowing these situations to occur. The costs of hackers, and worse, ransomware
The Difference Between Disaster Recovery and Data Backup
In IT services, disaster recovery and data backup are often conflated since they both refer to tasks that are essential to keeping your business running when an unplanned interruption causes you to lose sensitive and important data. However, these two terms are not synonyms. While having appropriate data backup and a maintaining a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for data loss
Information Technology – Keeping it Secure
The Biggest Challenge to IT in the Future is Security "The biggest challenge to IT in the future is security. Security could negatively impact connectivity to public networks. If these problems cannot be successfully addressed, I envision a time of closed, private networks and less information sharing. The risks now are so great and getting worse every day that we even
Ransomware: Who is Holding Your Data Hostage?
What is Ransomware? Sometimes it's easy to forget that not everyone knows the details all the cybersecurity threats there are to worry about out there. "What are you working on?" I jumped when a friend of mine spooked me while I was working at a local coffee shop. I was so focused on my screen that he could have roundhouse kicked me
How Downtime Can Affect Your Business
Keeping your systems up as much as possible is critical to growing your business and establishing lasting relationships with customers. You need to avoid downtime with preparation such as disaster recovery plans and business continuity solutions. Your customers want to feel that your business is reliable and that they can count on you when they want to view your site