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Top Cybersecurity Compliance Considerations for Small Businesses in 2022
Cybersecurity compliance is like a puzzle. To see the big picture for your company, you must place all of the pieces in the right place. The problem is that it’s not immediately obvious how many pieces there are. Unfortunately, regulations aren’t delivered to small...
The Ultimate IT Checklist for Evolving Small Businesses
Many small businesses begin with simple basics: a plan for administration, sales, technology, customer service, and maybe some marketing. Of all of these, technology is quickest to change while also carrying the highest risk. As companies grow, though, they often...
Small Businesses Outside of California Can’t Afford to Ignore the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Please note that in no way is Help Desk Cavalry providing legal information or counseling in this article. The content below is offered for your information only and any concerns or questions about complying with current laws should be directed to a legal...
VPN 101: Remote Access and Safety
For many of us, working outside the office walls is now “business as usual”. One of the many upsides to this is that technology is now catching up—and getting more competitive—with the tools needed to optimize working remotely. The advantage is in this is that there...
Six Reasons You Need a Password Management System ASAP
When it comes to workers organizing and managing their business passwords, we’ve seen everything—from the office admin who has the QuickBooks password post-it-noted to her monitor to the company owner who relies on his assistant to text him passwords when he needs...
Top Keyboard Shortcuts that Work Across Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and More
These days, most computer workers rely on the internet for everything from accessing necessary systems to researching the cheapest keyboard replacement. A big time saver is knowing how to speed around your favorite web browser using keyboard shortcuts. Enjoy! Basic...
Why Cybersecurity Compliance Is Becoming Increasingly Important for Small Business
Even the smallest business must play by certain rules to avoid legal issues. From hanging labor law posters to filling taxes on the scheduled IRS and state deadlines, these rules are now so common that most companies simply take them for granted as the activities...
Why IT Must Know Before Employee Onboarding or Offboarding
Typically, businesses pay the most attention to security while employees are working with their data, like password hygiene, software account management, and network access. But these same companies often leave out two of the most important moments in an employee’s...
How to Optimize Device Deployment
Today’s small businesses usually have to rely on a mix of both personal and professional devices to make sure their employees have all the access they need when they need it. But safely deploying and managing desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets is a...
5 Things to Consider When Looking for New Software
These days, every small business needs software of some kind, whether it lives on a local server in an air conditioned closet or virtually in the Cloud. These software programs range across everything an organization needs to keep running, including accounting,...
Third-Party Data Breaches Are a Growing Problem for Small Businesses
Many small businesses are still struggling with cybersecurity best practices when securing their own networks, and it’s easy to see why: Dangerous threats seem to be multiplying every day, and the complexity of modern networks is growing as well. Honestly, it’s enough...
System & Software Updates: Why you shouldn’t be skipping them for later
We all know how annoying it can be when you get a pop-up asking if you’d like to update something or—worse still—your system suddenly starts to update itself. Inevitably it happens when you’re on an important call or when you must reply to an urgent email. There is...
How Privileged Access Management (PAM) Protects Hybrid Organizations
The cost savings, speed, and productivity of the cloud is attracting more and more small businesses. This is leading to a huge rise in hybrid infrastructures, meaning a combination of both virtual and in-house technologies (like an in-house server to run Quickbooks,...
5 Ways to Minimize Data Loss
Our personal and professional data is everywhere. Honestly, that’s how 99.9% of us want it to be. We want our bank account information to auto-populate when we buy things online. We don’t want to have to remember 87 passwords. And we definitely want to be able to see...
5 Stats on Why IT Modernization Pays Off
Innovative technologies are changing the world (and business). Since most businesses pushed to more virtual ways of doing business in the past few years, more and more stats linking business success to technology are being released. The data shows plainly that...
Why All Small Businesses Need a Website Even if They Have a Facebook Page
Yeah, we said it, “…all small businesses need a website.” To get straight to the point, this certainty has nothing to do with selling and everything to do with ensuring the longevity of your company. As an IT partner for small businesses (that in fact, doesn’t service...
What’s the Difference Between a Help Desk and NOC?
When a small business starts outgrowing their piecemealed IT, they often start looking at one facet of technology support, like how to keep their machines secure or how to provide on-demand support for their end users. It’s important to know that one can’t be provided...
Multi-Factor Authentication: The Right Way and the Wrong Way
The IT buzz has a new focus based on all of the increased cybersecurity risk that’s flooding small businesses: multi-factor authentication (MFA) or 2-factor authentication (2FA). They’re slightly different ways of naming the same security requirement that demands a...
Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar Impacts to US Small Businesses
As most these days know, Ukraine has been subjected to relentless Russian cyber attacks since at least 2013. But the attacks that were hitting it last month were different because they foreshadowed the full-scale military invasion that Russia launched against its...
Small Businesses Cybersecurity Breaches Increased in 2021
Small business owners rarely have as much time as they would like, so they must prioritize what they focus on. Given that 56 percent of America’s small business owners are not concerned about being the victim of a hack, it’s hardly a surprise that cybersecurity is...
Microsoft’s License Price Increases in 2022: New Commerce Experience (NCE)
DISCLAIMER – All information in this piece is accurate as of the writing of this article and contains no legal advice in terms of purchasing or agreements. This is offered as helpful information to guide our clients and other companies who own and use Microsoft/Office...
Managed IT Services ROI: How Long Does It Take to Start Saving Money?
Are you tired of throwing piles of money on your in-house IT support and feeling like you’re not getting much in return? Fortunately, the remedy is a trend that’s quickly increasing for small businesses: managed IT services. Managed Service Providers, or MSPs for...
How Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Impact Small Businesses
When most small businesses think about cybersecurity, they’re thinking about preventing the bad guys from breaching their defenses, infecting devices with malware, and leaving with sensitive data that’s guaranteed to sell well on the dark web. What small businesses...
4 Things that Will Ensure Your Business Continuity Planning Is a Success
After reading our past articles on What is Business Continuity Planning and Why it’s Essential or Essentials of a Successful Business Continuity Plan, you may be wondering, “How do I make sure what I’m creating actually works?” This article digs into the main four...