IT, Cybersecurity
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What Are Managed IT Services? The Quick Take: Managed IT services involve outsourcing your company’s IT operations to a specialized provider, ensuring your technology infrastructure is expertly managed, monitored, and maintained. These Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs) offer their clients a proactive approach—enhancing efficiency and cybersecurity, while allowing clients to offload the hassle of daily…

Where Can I Find Reviews of Managed IT Firms? The Quick Take Businesses looking for a reputable managed IT services provider have several options for finding the best third-party rankings and reviews, including: Third party review sites—such as industry-favorite, Clutch, or others like TrustRadius, Design Rush, and UpCity. It’s important, however, to understand how the…

If you’re a business owner with a Department of Defense contract—or you’ve been considering bidding for a DoD contract—there’s big news on the horizon. On October 15th, 2024, the DoD published a new set of rules for the CMMC (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification) program it uses to govern cybersecurity and data handling for its vendors….

What Is the Role of Cloud Computing in Managed IT Services? The Quick Take: A managed IT service provider (MSP) can be a crucial business partner for your company, helping you choose and manage your cloud productivity suite wisely. What is the Role of Cloud Computing in Managed IT Services? A premium IT MSP can…

How Do I Manage the Windows 10 End-of-Life at My Company? The Quick Take The Windows 10 Operating System will stop being supported by Microsoft as of October 14, 2025. Companies who continue to run this operating system will lose out on all the benefits Windows 11 offers, including the ability to run AI-enabled tools…

How Much Do Managed IT Services Cost? A Quick Take on Factors and Price Ranges How Much Do Managed IT Services Cost? In 2025, the average small to medium-sized company can expect to pay about $100 to $149 per month, per user to outsource their IT to a managed IT service provider, including service, software…

Why Do I Need Managed IT Services? The Quick Take: Many companies are realizing an outside managed IT services provider (MSP) may be able to handle their IT better, and more cheaply, than they can on their own. In fact, Straits Research reports that the global managed IT services market will grow by at least…

How Do I Choose The Right Managed IT Services Provider? The Quick Take According to a recent report by Channel Futures, 64% of midsize businesses and 65% of small enterprises globally plan to increase their spending on managed IT services in 2025. Companies looking for the right managed IT services  provider (MSP)  to take their…

When it comes to hiring IT support for law firms, too many practices are stopping short of making the cybersecurity investments they need. In fact, according to the American Bar Association Tech Report, nearly half of all firms are missing one or more of the key cybersecurity tools they need to stay safe. This is…

Has your company decided to take the plunge, and start a regular schedule of monthly online security awareness trainings for your employees? Great! You’ve just taken a big step toward hardening your cybersecurity defenses. Now what? Chances are, you’ve purchased a cloud-based, subscription model that automatically updates the education base to match the latest cybersecurity…

Microsoft Copilot is easily one of the most hotly anticipated tech advancements to your desktop in decades. Does that sound like a bold statement? I assure you, it’s not. For companies that buy into Microsoft’s new, proprietary AI engine, Copilot will be woven throughout the already compelling M365 productivity platform—dramatically amplifying what you can do…

Every day, there’s another screaming headline about “the biggest data breach in history.” This time, however, it really may be “the big one.” In August 2024, a dark web hacker dumped 2.7 billion data records—including Social Security numbers—on a dark web forum. This information allegedly came from a background-checking service called National Public Data. Each…

After the freedom people experienced from remote work during the pandemic, the “return to office mandates” many companies are trotting out are flopping. Hard. Recent mutinies against the RTOs imposed by Amazon and Dell are great examples. When employees were given the ultimatum “return to office full time, or lose out on the eligibility for…

On July 19, 2024, Cybersecurity software company CrowdStrike made history. They were responsible for the world’s most significant global computer outage. It’s as bad as it sounds—with millions of computers they’d sworn to protect suddenly in a “blue screen of death reboot loop.” The net effects hit some of the world’s most critical organizations—including airlines,…

Will my company need to spend more on its cyber risk insurance or not? Every company shopping for cyber risk insurance wonders about this, especially given the security risks of AI and major global outages that come out of the blue, like the recent CrowdStrike outage that snarled global business for days. With the additional…