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Companies had to deal with more than just COVID complications last year as they faced brutal cyber-attacks. In fact, a new type of phishing attack was discovered after the furniture giant IKEA noticed several malicious reply-chain emails making rounds in the company. While IKEA was able to protect itself against the attack, many companies are still unaware of the lurking danger. 

Cyber security training is growing in importance. Imagine if your company was compromised and every employee's financial and personal data was leaked. Can you imagine the consequences? Will your clients or stakeholders still have confidence in your business if that happens?

Every company needs to have a data backup and disaster recovery plan in place in this data-first world. Disaster recovery refers to a program used to regain access to data, systems and IT services after an unintended outage. Backup is often a critical part of the recovery process.

It is no secret that the cloud is the future of business operations. Gartner predicts that global spending on cloud services will reach over $482 billion in 2022. That is up from the $313 billion in 2020.

Privileged account management (PAM) is a useful way for companies to ensure that users with excess access privileges are using their accounts appropriately and securely. PAM is also a valuable means to ensure that privileged accounts have not been compromised by external cyber-attackers.

It is important to have certain policies in place for how your technology is used regardless of the size of your company. Policies provide guidelines to keep you from suffering from a network security breach, being hit with a compliance violation and other issues.

If you do a Google search for IT consultants and services in Westbrook, Connecticut, not all firms that come up will have the same level of benefit for your business.

2020 was a good example of how unanticipated events can happen and have a serious impact on your business operations. They can stop operations altogether and they can also impact buying behaviors that can affect your bottom line.

Data security isn’t a matter to be taken lightly, as too many businesses have found out the hard way. Unfortunately, there are far too many simple ways to correct common security issues - enough that it’s foolish not to do so. We’ll review a few ways to fix security issues, after discussing one of, if not the, most egregious security failings in modern history.

There is no question that a small business can benefit from technology, as has been proven time and time again. However, an issue can arise if a business bites off more than it can chew, so to speak, and ultimately creates a spike in costs. A responsible business owner will resist this temptation and prioritize the solutions they need over the ones they want - building profitability and generating capital needed to make other improvements.