No, Your Business Is Not Too Small to Get Hacked April 28, 2025 A Belief That Feels Reasonable Until It Isn’t There’s a version of cybersecurity thinking that sounds logical on the surface: hackers go after big targets because that’s where the money is. A small law office in Jacksonville or a three-person insurance agency…
The Question Worth Taking Seriously If you have employees who work remotely, connect to your business systems from outside the office, or use public wifi at any point during their workday, the question of whether your business should be using a VPN is worth answering deliberately. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, and while the…
One of the Most Effective Attacks Costs Almost Nothing to Pull Off Email spoofing is the practice of sending an email that appears to come from a trusted source when it actually comes from somewhere else entirely. For small businesses, spoofed emails are one of the most common starting points for fraud, data theft, and…
The Problem With Having No Written Rules Most small businesses operate without a formal IT policy, and most of the time nothing obviously goes wrong because of it. But the absence of clear rules around how technology is used creates a grey area that tends to cause problems at the worst possible moments. When an…
A Surge Protector Isn’t Enough Most small business owners have surge protectors plugged into their walls and assume that’s sufficient protection for their equipment. A surge protector is better than nothing, but it only addresses one type of power problem. A UPS, which stands for Uninterruptible Power Supply, addresses the full range of power events…
There’s No Universal Right Answer The question of whether a small business needs its own server doesn’t have a single correct answer. It depends on how your business operates, what software you run, how many people you have, and what your specific requirements are around data storage, performance, and access. Cloud services have made it…
Most Small Business Networks Have a Hidden Problem Most small business networks are set up the same way. Everything is on one flat network, which means every device connected to it can potentially communicate with every other device. The guest wifi in the waiting room shares a network with the computer that holds your client…
April 21, 2025 The Same Call, Again If you’ve ever had the experience of calling your IT company about a problem, getting it fixed, and then finding yourself calling about the same thing a few months later, you’re not imagining it. That pattern is real, and it’s one of the clearest signs that something about…
April 21, 2025 When Nothing Going Wrong Feels Like Everything Going Right There’s a version of IT management that feels responsible because it’s quiet. Equipment got set up at some point, everything seems to be working, and nobody’s complained lately. The instinct is to leave it alone. If it’s not broken, why fix it? The…
It’s Not Just a Brush-Off If you’ve ever called IT support and been told to restart your computer, you might have felt like the advice was a little too simple. It isn’t. Restarting is genuinely one of the most effective first steps in troubleshooting, and there are real technical reasons why it works as often…