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Scam Proof Your Trip: 5 Essential Tips for Safe Traveling
Whether traveling for business or leisure, everybody should follow these five safety tips to ensure sensitive information does not fall into the wrong hands.
BACS Consulting Group Wins Newcomer of the Year Award
BACS Consulting Group in Santa Clara, California, was nominated and won the coveted Channel Futures MSP 501: Newcomer of the Year Award for 2022.
Securing Cloud Storage For Life Sciences and BioTech Industries
The need for superior data warehousing and security has made cloud storage a viable option and increasingly popular in those industries.
Supply Chain Issues Continue To Plague US Enterprises
Global supply chain issues and general hardware shortages are expected to continue through the remainder of 2022.
3 Direct Ways To Improve Your Cybersecurity Right Now
Given how often big-name data breaches make headlines, you probably think cybersecurity is only a concern for big businesses.
BACS Consulting Group Named One Of The Top 501 MSPs Worldwide In 2022
Channel Futures has released its annual list of the top IT companies worldwide—and BACS Consulting is proud to be on it.
Does Your IT Company Own Its Mistakes? (We Do)
Whether yours has been honest about it or not, every IT team makes a mistake from time to time. What’s important is how they choose to deal with it.
BACS Consulting Group Delivers The Local IT Expertise The Olander Company Needs
One of BACS Consulting Group's many valued clients is The Olander Company, a full-line distributor of standard and metric fasteners.
Important Certifications You Want from Your Managed IT Services Partner
Placing a focus on your IT department can be confusing, but we all understand it is a necessary task. Which items do you invest in, and which are secure already? Instead of trying to guess, it is...
Healthcare IT and Preparing the Future of Medicine
Imagine logging the information for thousands of processes each day. Now, multiply that dozens of times and have it happen constantly, without end. That is the burden put on healthcare IT...
Managed Service Providers (MSPs): Gaining an IT Performance Advantage
Keeping pace with shifting technology needs INTRODUCTION Changing business models are driving a shift in the role of IT―from leveraging technology and support of the business, to the higher, more...
On-Site IT and Its Considerable Advantages to Business
Business goals achieved through digital initiatives and technologies have transformed modern enterprises. Strategies focused on reimagining processes, products, and services create a competitive...
Is Your IT Company Growing with You?
American enterprise has been on a rapid growth trajectory over the last few decades. Robust consumer spending and business investment continue with unremitting intensity. Deregulation in the 80s...
Dangers of Piecemealing IT Solutions
A piecemeal approach to anything is characterized by small, haphazard measures of uncertainty over a longer period of time. Aside from the extended time to resolve an issue, piecemeal solutions...
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing: What Are the Differences?
Complexities of software coding have risen exponentially over recent years, without signs of slowing down. As an example, Microsoft 95, released 25 years ago, consisted of 15 million lines of...
Creating a Secure Remote Workforce
In a few brief years, organizations of all sizes have been driven to redeploy their workforce from office to home or some hybrid solution. To suggest this was a deliberate move from corporate...
Advanced Email Threats and Solutions
Email is the most incredible communication medium ever created for personal and professional use. From the application’s humble beginnings in 1965, 270 billion emails are now delivered every day....
Top Five Cybersecurity Threats Facing the Financial Services Industry
The digital age has opened up an array of new and potentially vulnerable access points for cybercriminals to infiltrate your networks and its devices. Whether caused by a deliberate attack, human...
Avoiding a Security Lapse During Infrastructure Improvements
The pace of technology innovation continues to accelerate. New versions of software are launched every day to keep businesses on the cutting edge of digital transformation and customer service....
Why Cyberthreats to Construction Companies Are On the Rise
Cyber-attacks have threatened every industry vertical worldwide, with infrastructure and development companies hit more than most. Construction firms are vulnerable to attack because of the...
Financial Services Companies Face an Ever-Evolving Cyber Landscape
After the initial fascination of the internet had run its course, financial developers turned their attention to laying the groundwork for banking services. In 1995, Wells Fargo became the first...
Five Reasons to Prioritize Cybersecurity as a Life Sciences Company
While cybersecurity is not an unfamiliar challenge for life sciences companies, what has changed, however, is the sophistication and intensity of attacks in recent years, particularly amid the...
Solutions for a Remote Workforce to Keep Bay Area Businesses Safe
A few short years ago, having a remote workforce never crossed the mind of many employers. The pandemic created a new worker paradigm. To remain relevant, business owners must shift their focus...
Ransomware Attacks: How To Prevent It and Safeguard Your Business
It would be ill-advised to say that there is a 100 percent sure-fire way to prevent a ransomware attack on your business network, even with the best cybersecurity. However, proactively...
Managed IT Services vs. Traditional IT Support: What’s The Difference?
Business technology has come far in just a few decades as many firms now enjoy operating in the cloud. While some companies still hold on to traditional tech support methods, modern enterprises...
10 Benefits of Managed IT Services for Your Business
Are you considering managed IT services for your business? If yes, you’re in a growing number of organizations. Managing technologies within an organization can be overwhelming to maintain. One...
Safeguarding Your Business from Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities
Businesses today must manage an ever-growing number of security risks. From client database breaches to malicious ransomware attacks, cybercriminals are continuously searching for new...
Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom vs. Google Meet
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Everything Your Construction Company Needs For Cybersecurity
As a construction company, you may be surprised to learn that hackers are increasingly targeting the construction industry. One study performed by security vendor Sophos found that out of 203...
Safe Harbor laws: Mitigating the impact of a data breach
Today’s cybercriminals have become increasingly more sophisticated in their ability to exploit weaknesses in security defenses. When a data breach does occur, the biggest losers, of course, are...
What California Businesses Should Know About the CCPA
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which became effective January 1, 2020, grew out of a need to protect the privacy of consumer data at a time when data breaches involving the personal...
Why You Should Focus on Improving Your Cybersecurity Strategy
Your cybersecurity strategy has been established and now you feel confident that your organization’s data is protected. While you should be applauded for developing a cybersecurity strategy, you...
Managing Passwords—What a Small Business Can Do to Minimize Risk
A network that is not adequately protected may be vulnerable to unauthorized access from competitors, government entities, and other malicious players. After someone gains access to your...
Mitigating Potential Threats with Sound Security Protocols
As cybersecurity becomes increasingly more complex, many organizations lack the resources or knowledge they need to create an effective security strategy. That’s why you need a trusted expert who...
Everything You Need To Know About Network Assessments
Some businesses may think that once your network is set up you no longer need to invest any time or resources in it, but that is simply not the case. Your business’s network is constantly...
Benefits of Virtual Desktop Deployment
Implementing virtualized desktops across your enterprise environment can provide users with a high-definition desktop experience while helping to improve security and reduce costs. While the...
3 Reasons Your Cybersecurity Is Broken (And How to Fix It)
Fixing cybersecurity problems in your organization should be a priority. As the tactics of cybercriminals become more advanced and the number of attacks increases, fixing cybersecurity problems...
Increasing Security with Multi-Factor Authentication
Multi-factor identification (MFA) involves additional security measures required when logging in to an online account. While it is true that every website requires the user to sign in with a...
Benefits Of Smart IT Planning
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Best Practices for Effective Network Design
Navigating the complexity of network design and deployment can be a daunting task, particularly in today’s era of more distributed, interconnected IT environments. Hurried, poorly planned...
Four Costly Misconceptions Many Construction and Engineering Firms Have About IT
Have you started to doubt the value of your IT service provider? Misconceptions about this complex field can arise from a lack of shared knowledge when observations do not present a full picture....
Why You Need An IT Strategy
Planning and strategy are key components of any successful business. The best business leaders in the world are constantly looking into the future and planning for what will come. That rings true...
How to Solve the Top 4 Complaints Engineering, Architectural, and Construction Companies Have with IT
While you may be convinced that information technology (IT) makes work life easier for professionals who work in the building industry, you and your colleagues have some complaints about how IT...
MSP 101 – Managed Service Provider
Managed service providers are becoming more and more popular. Replacing or supplementing traditional IT teams with an MSP can improve the quality of a company’s IT infrastructure. Companies all...
TECH TALK: 7 Trends You May Have Missed About Cybersecurity
At any given point in time, there are numerous trending topics in cybersecurity. Change is one aspect of technology that we can always depend on, and that’s a good thing. We’re able to do more in...
The Anatomy of Great Cybersecurity
If security professionals were asked to define the anatomy of great cybersecurity, it would likely be significantly different than a few years ago. IT departments are allocating more resources to...
TECH TALK: 3 Steps to Developing an Effective Cybersecurity Strategy
Has the task of developing an effective cybersecurity strategy landed on your To-Do list? As the average worldwide cost of a data breach is estimated as $3.92 million (from The Cost of a Data...
Gaining an Edge with Effective Virtualization Management
Virtualization offers businesses a supremely agile infrastructure framework that allows services and applications to be deployed quickly and efficiently for greater competitive advantage. Not...
Reaping the Benefits of Proactive Data Protection
The rapid proliferation of digital technologies offers businesses vast potential for expansion and innovation, but it also creates a host of new security risks. As the growth in the number of...
Data Backup and Recovery: Reaping the Benefits of the Cloud
While some data loss is inevitable, how you respond to a data breach or business disruption can have a significant impact on your bottom line, or even your survival. With security threats coming...
Managed Security Service Providers – Choosing The Right IT Security Vendor
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Ten Critical Facts Business Owners Must Know When Installing a Virtual Network for Employees to Work Remotely
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Surefire Signs You’re Infected With Spyware, Malware, and Viruses
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