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...
What is a Business Continuity Plan?
As companies get more digital in order to scale and grow their operation, a Business Continuity Plan is now imperative for success and survival. Many organizations have been able to avoid...
3 Reasons Your IT Infrastructure Is Failing Your Business
Your IT infrastructure is holding your business back. Organizations often ignore their IT infrastructure. Some companies do not keep their IT infrastructure up to date as their business grows....
Managed IT Services For Bay Area Businesses That Want To Grow
Are you aware that the advantages of managed IT services go beyond offloading your IT tasks and saving money? These two benefits are significant when considering managed IT services....
Managed IT Services: Tapping Into The Cost-Saving Value
In an age where technology is often a core driver of business growth, effective and reliable IT performance is more vital than ever. A structured, planned approach to IT support can help keep...
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...
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 Every Business Must Implement Web-Filtering Protection
Staying out of trouble may mean something as simple as just not going where problems hang out. Sound judgment and wise decision-making can help avoid mistakes with no harm done. However, when the...
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...
Dark Web/Deep Web ID Monitoring
Almost everyone has heard of the dark web, and most know it poses risks and dangers that wise internet users try to avoid. However, misconceptions exist about its identity and what it does. Not...
Cyber Security Awareness for Small Businesses
Online attacks are a chronic problem in the business world. If you have any sort of online component to your organization, you are vulnerable. When people imagine cybercriminals, they think of...
Tech Talk: 20 Things You Must Do to Mitigate Your Organization’s Cybersecurity Risk
Is your organization equipped with at least cybersecurity basics? If you don’t know the answer to that question, the following information will help you learn the essentials that can create a...
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...
Safeguarding Assets from Evolving Malware Threats
The digital age has greatly expanded the range of opportunities and avenues of attack for hackers to penetrate your IT security defenses and gain access to critical business systems and...
Best Practices for Effective Network Design
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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....
The Biggest Trends in Cybersecurity We Saw in 2020
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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...
Four Ways Cloud Can Help Transform Your Business
For organizations seeking greater efficiency and agility, the cloud offers an increasingly appealing option. This is especially the case for smaller businesses, which are often seeking to scale...
5 Key Questions to Ask Before a Cloud Migration
As businesses strive to keep pace with the demands of the digital age, many are capitalizing on the efficiency and scalability advantages of cloud computing. While operational speed and...
Building the Framework for a Better IT Experience
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15 Surprising Statistics About Cybersecurity
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MSP 101 – Managed Service Provider
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Cloud Computing Frequently Asked Questions
New technologies continue to move the business world forward. Simultaneously, they create a lot of confusion and apprehension among business people and owners who tend to get intimidated by new...
Different Types of Cloud Solutions and How to Decide Which One is Best For You
It is our goal here at BACS IT to keep our information relevant to our customers and our readers. We updated the information in this blog to provide you with more value and insight as to the...
TECH TALK: 7 Trends You May Have Missed About Cybersecurity
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The Anatomy of Great Cybersecurity
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TECH TALK: 3 Steps to Developing an Effective Cybersecurity Strategy
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Best Practices for Building a High Availability Cloud Architecture
This blog was updated August of 2021 to provide more useful information to our readers. We hope you enjoy! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us! The critical...
Gaining an Edge with Effective Virtualization Management
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Reaping the Benefits of Proactive Data Protection
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Undeniable Proof That You Need to Improve Your Organization’s Cybersecurity Strategy
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Data Backup and Recovery: Reaping the Benefits of the Cloud
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Managed Security Service Providers – Choosing The Right IT Security Vendor
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Reaping the Benefits of Cloud Computing
Businesses seeking greater operational flexibility are finding the cloud to be an increasingly attractive solution due to its flexible deployment options and its ability to help reduce the need...
Choosing the Best IT Approach: On-Premises vs. Cloud
As organizations upgrade and expand their IT infrastructure, one key decision they must make is whether to keep their data infrastructure on-premises or move it to the cloud. It’s a decision that...
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...
3 Reasons Your IT Infrastructure Is Failing Your Business
Your IT infrastructure is holding your business back. Organizations often ignore their IT infrastructure. Some companies do not keep their IT infrastructure up to date as their business grows....
Managed IT Services For Bay Area Businesses That Want To Grow
Are you aware that the advantages of managed IT services go beyond offloading your IT tasks and saving money? These two benefits are significant when considering managed IT services....
Managed IT Services: Tapping Into The Cost-Saving Value
In an age where technology is often a core driver of business growth, effective and reliable IT performance is more vital than ever. A structured, planned approach to IT support can help keep...
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...
Cyber Security Awareness for Small Businesses
Online attacks are a chronic problem in the business world. If you have any sort of online component to your organization, you are vulnerable. When people imagine cybercriminals, they think of...
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....
Top 10 Most Expensive & Deadly Computer Disasters
Imagine the frustration of losing a couple of hours of work on your computer. Now imagine losing days and even weeks. Or, imagine losing critical data like your client database and those clients'...
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
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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
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TECH TALK: 7 Trends You May Have Missed About Cybersecurity
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The Anatomy of Great Cybersecurity
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TECH TALK: 3 Steps to Developing an Effective Cybersecurity Strategy
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Gaining an Edge with Effective Virtualization Management
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Reaping the Benefits of Proactive Data Protection
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Data Backup and Recovery: Reaping the Benefits of the Cloud
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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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Improving Performance with Better Data Management
SUMMARY Steady market growth was creating data and infrastructure management challenges for Sleep Health, prompting the company to seek a more flexible, cost-efficient solution. Working with...
Is Money Unintentionally Exiting Your Business Through What You Spend on IT Services and Support?
Imagine an employee knocks on your office door to talk about a theft they uncovered. In a grave voice, they tell you that tens of thousands of dollars had been siphoned away from your firm...
Does Your Cybersecurity Strategy Pass the Test? 5 Improvements You Can Make Today
Is your cybersecurity strategy capable of protecting your organization’s assets from cyber threats? If you haven’t performed any tests to confirm or deny that inquiry, consider a staggering...
Easing Your Cloud Migration with the Right IT partner
As cloud trends continue to evolve, IT as a Service model (ITaaS) has emerged as an attractive model for helping to help keep IT and cloud infrastructure running efficiently, reliably, and...
Driving Business Growth with More Agile IT
Summary: Inflexible IT infrastructure, increased security concerns, and escalating scalability challenges led Recor Medical to explore more effective IT configuration alternatives. Working with...
Rapid Wireless Deployment Helps Pave the Way for Business Expansion
SUMMARY After relocating into a new, more expansive office building, one of the first priorities for Eargo, a West-coast-based hearing device manufacturer, was quickly establishing reliable...
Conducting an In-Depth Review of Your Current Backup System
The Challenge Backing up your data and the ability to quickly and fully recover it in the event of a natural disaster or ransomware attack is critical to the stability of your company. If malware...
The Pros And Cons Of Migrating To The Cloud
Are you looking into transitioning your computer network and operations to the cloud? You probably received confusing and conflicting advice and no real answers to your questions and concerns...
Managed IT Services Case Study – OrangeTwist
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Phishing: The Uncommonly Common Cyberthreat
According to Templafy.com, in the period from 2014 to 2018, the average office worker received 90 emails each day. 40 of these emails, or five per hour, were directly related to business...
The Bay Area Managed IT Service Provider That You Can Trust
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