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Cyber insurance has become a standard recommendation for small businesses, and the case for having it is real. The financial cost of a serious breach, between recovery expenses, downtime, outside help, regulatory requirements, and client notification, can reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Insurance provides a meaningful financial backstop when things go seriously...

Quick Answer Table of Contents Your network goes down at 9 a.m. on a Monday. Email stops. Your point-of-sale system freezes. And when you call your current IT provider, you get a voicemail. If that scenario makes your stomach drop, you already understand what is at stake when you choose an IT company for your...

Quick Answer Table of Contents Staying with the wrong IT provider out of fear of switching costs more than most business owners realize. Maybe your current provider takes days to respond. Maybe you have outgrown them. Maybe a security gap just gave you a scare. Whatever the reason, the idea of switching IT providers can...

For most of the history of cybersecurity, attacks came at businesses directly. A hacker tried to break into your network, trick your employees into clicking something malicious, or steal credentials through a phishing email. Your defenses were built around that model. That model is increasingly being outmaneuvered by a different type of attack entirely. Quick...

Ransomware is not a new threat. Businesses have been aware of it for years. What has changed is how it operates. Modern ransomware attacks are significantly faster, more targeted, and more sophisticated than the versions that dominated headlines a few years ago, and the defenses that were adequate then are not fully adequate now. Quick...