Managed IT services: MSPs Could Be Giving Clients Ransomware
A part of my week here at TSI is always spent wading through news stories to stay ahead of all the latest trends and best practices in our industry. After all, how can I provide clients with the most complete, accurate and actionable information to work from if I don’t have access to that data myself? Most of the time, the trends I spend so much time researching fall squarely…
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10 Questions to Validate Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategy
A backup and disaster recovery strategy is exactly what it sounds like: a plan for how you’re going to restore all of your critical electronic information in the event that you suffer from some type of disaster. If your office burns to the ground, this strategy will allow you to pick right up again at a secondary location as if nothing ever happened – at least as far as your…
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Is Your Business Winter Ready?
Hacks and Ransomware Attacks often catch the headlines for their wide impact and compromised data. However, for many businesses located in colder climates, a very real threat to their daily operations revolve around the worst winter weather, much of which is still ahead of us. Inclement winter weather can lead to disruptions in your normal business. In fact, the latest 2017 Economic Report of the President indicates weather-related incidents cost…
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Microsoft Azure: A Simple Backup Solution
The majority of us are familiar with the topic of Backup and Recovery. It is a hot topic in the prevention of total data loss for any organization, as well as providing a level of assurance that if your network was attacked by one of the copious types of Ransomware out there, we could restore your data without having to pay the perpetrator. Of course, it requires near continuous reporting,…
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Create a Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan
We’re all familiar with the concepts of full and incremental image backups and their value in any backup and disaster recovery strategy. What is less known is how far many of today’s backup solutions actually go to ensure that the most critical aspects of your data, including its integrity are preserved and the amount of time needed to recover those very assets; most notably organizations using Microsoft Domain Controller and/or…
ContinuedAvoiding Human Error – A Look At Hillary Clinton’s Email Misstep
One of the most discussed pieces of technology news of the last several months has been surrounding Hilary Clinton’s private email server, which she used to conduct government business while acting as Secretary of State. It was revealed that Clinton had been sending emails containing classified information through her personal account which was being managed and administered by a civilian without security clearances. Undeniably, the national security implications associated with…
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Cyber Security Policy Starter Kit:
10 Critical Policies That Every Company Should Have in Place
