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The insurance landscape is changing: how an MSP can help your brokerage reach IT success
First-rate IT is a necessity in almost every industry and sector. The world we live and work in is now digital, and cutting-edge IT infrastructure and management is the only way to...
Co-Managed IT – what does it look like for an internal team to work alongside an MSP?
Although the last couple of years has intensified the trend, the managed service model of IT provision has been growing in popularity for some time now. The pandemic certainly did its part...
Three Ways Insurance Companies Can Boost Their Cybersecurity
Insurance companies are one of the most vulnerable businesses to cybercrime around. As a sector, they operate under a unique set of circumstances that make them ideal targets and this risk has only grown with the increase in remote workforces brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Are you too social online? How your personal data is at risk on social media
With everything from name and age to marital status and place of work, we put a lot of information out there. Everyone has a different comfort level about sharing data on social media platforms, but almost all of us share some of our lives and personal information with the world on one platform or another.
Cloud Computing in AgTech
At first glance it might be hard to envision how agriculture and cloud computing could overlap. Sure, there are plenty of applications for innovation and technology in the world of agriculture, but cloud computing just seems a little too abstracted from the messy world of crops, livestock, and farming.
How to Prepare Your Business for Hybrid Work
Hybrid workplaces have been the coming thing for a few years now, but the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was the catalyst that has brought them front and center. While dispersed...
Threat Scenarios for Risk Evaluation for Your Business
Businesses deal with risks on multiple fronts, but one of the most pressing and all-encompassing is cybersecurity. Cybercriminals are at the cutting edge of technology and digital...
Your IT Team Is Overwhelmed: now what?
Your organization’s IT team is almost always a hectic place. As the world becomes ever more connected and digital innovation means that IT plays an increasingly large and essential part of...
beWARE: a guide to the dangerous ‘wares of the internet
If you have been even just A Little Online over the past two decades, you have probably heard of malware. Certainly, any business or business owner whose company involves IT or does business online will likely have encountered the term.
Why do hackers hack?
Everyone has an idea of what hackers do. Popular culture is full of images of hooded figures hunched over a monitor, illuminated by falling lines of green code. But people are less...
Smart Devices and Smart Security
The modern world is increasingly smart. Smart devices are everywhere - your home, your work, your travel; everything is connected, and life is more manageable and smoother as a...
Contact Forms Deliver New Form of Malicious Emails
Microsoft’s threat analysts have released extensive guidance and warnings about recently discovered malicious activity deriving from online content forms. Microsoft’s analysts have...