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October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM), presented by the National Cybersecurity Alliance and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and this year marks its 20th anniversary. It’s the time of year when everyone, businesses and individuals alike, are encouraged to protect their digital assets and privacy and learn new tips for protecting themselves from emerging threats.

Have you started business planning for 2024? The last few months of the year can get hectic, between trying to close out the end of the quarter strong and mapping out your plan to ramp things up in the new year. One area that small business owners often skip over when creating their new year strategy is cyber security planning.

The holiday season is in full swing, which means so are the cybercriminals! While you’re making holiday gift lists, they’re plotting and scheming new ways to take advantage of unsuspecting online shoppers. Holiday phishing scams have become an all-too-common threat, targeting customers to steal personal information, financial data and even identities.

One of the most common questions we get from new prospective clients calling our office is “What do you guys charge for your IT services?”

While price certainly needs to be one consideration, it’s extremely important you make an informed decision and choose the right IT services company instead of using price as the main deciding factor.

“That won’t happen to me” is something many business owners say when discussing cyberscams and the need for adequate protections for their business, but these days it’s getting to be a really, really stupid statement that you definitely don’t want your clients, employees and banker to hear.

Cyberattacks, power outages, and natural disasters can all lead to extensive data loss. While losing a few megabytes of data may sound inconsequential, think about how terabytes of lost data can affect your business. The most common scenario is that operations grind to a halt for several hours as everyone tries to redo the hours of lost work.

Choosing the right computers for your law firm is not merely an IT concern; it’s a strategic move to make your practice more efficient. Besides having reliable legal IT support, deploying the best computers for your firm’s lawyers has become crucial to remaining competitive in the legal industry.

It’s a special kind of relentless attack all business owners and managers face: the persistent, crazy, chaotic assault on your time and attention. No one is immune, and every business deals with it.

Some leaders handle the constant pressure on their attention brilliantly, keeping the team organized and highly productive.

What if you discovered that all of the hard work, investments and time you’ve put into growing your business is at risk due to a failure of your outsourced IT company, or possibly even your well-meaning (but overburdened) IT department? If you were exposed to that level of risk, wouldn’t you want someone to tell you about it?

This article is that wake-up call.

When you run your own business, it feels like there are never enough hours in the day. Even when you start early and end late, there’s always something else, another e-mail or task, nagging for your attention. If you want to be productive, and ultimately successful, it’s important to prioritize what tasks you’ll allow to fill your schedule.