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Why IT Life Cycle Planning Matters
By Scott Hirschfeld | | Best Practices, IT Support, Security, Software
I was meeting with a group of business owners last week, and the topic of keeping business software up to date came up. One of the owners was specifically discussing a very static piece of software, that he thought did not need to be updated. His reasons were logical. The software worked great for what…
Read More 10 Cybersecurity Measures Insurance May Require in 2022
By Scott Hirschfeld | | Blog Post, Leadership, Security, Tech Trends
It has been a year of cyber threats, exploits, and ransomware, and the insurance companies know it. If you haven’t already, you will almost certainly be faced with a questionnaire or an attestation form that asks you to certify you have certain security measures in place, when you are renewing your cyber insurance. Unfortunately, this…
Read More 5 Things to Learn from Recent Cybersecurity Attacks
By Scott Hirschfeld | | Best Practices, Blog Post, Leadership, Security
Imagine that you live in a complex of high-end condominiums with high-end services. The management office in your building keeps a master key that unlocks every condominium, so that they can seamlessly provide services to each owner. For instance, they handle all home maintenance requests, they offer weekly condo cleaning, they will even have a…
Read More Scott Reviews Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2021
By Scott Hirschfeld | | Blog Post, Security, Tech Trends
Gartner recently released their Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2021, calling them “Technology trends IT can’t afford to ignore”. Many of the trends are in response to the remote working shift the pandemic has created. Not just Gartner, but many other tech prognosticators are seeing this as a continued shift in how we work.…
Read More 4 Fundamentals to Stay Cyber Secure
By Scott Hirschfeld | | Best Practices, Blog Post, Security
The FBI has designated October as Cybersecurity month. Here we are about to start October of 2020. We have had enough to worry about in 2020, so let’s really enjoy Cybersecurity month and celebrate! Well, maybe not, but let’s at least pay some attention and give it thought. The point of cybersecurity month is to…
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