What Needs To Be Encrypted Under HIPAA Compliance?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA, was enacted to help keep private health information safe. It's not just for protecting sensitive data from prying eyes, but it's also meant to maintain the integrity of the information by...
How Companies Benefit from Technology Partners Who Know Each Other
I recently attended a Chicagoland Chamber event and chatted with a strategic business advisor about the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS®), which our company is currently implementing. Later, during the event, I bumped into her along with someone else I had not...
Why Printers Suck!
Why is it that when my printer breaks it takes FOREVER to get it back up and running? I just want to print a two-page document - how hard is that? Well actually, when it comes to IT, printers are without question the bane of an IT professional's existence! And here...
How To Protect Your Organization From Viruses And Malware
“We have anti-virus and anti-malware, but what is the difference between viruses and malware?” This is a question that clients and prospects ask our team all the time. I am the president of an information technology company in Chicago, and I've learned that, in...
How Do You Select An IT Provider
The process of selecting an IT provider can be daunting. If you have gone through this process and gotten burned in the past it can also be traumatizing! The technical jargon is usually mind-numbing and when you start comparing companies apples to apples you find...
Can My IT Person Handle Everything For My Business?
Most of the questions we hear when speaking with Business Leaders involve IT processes and redundancies rather than the technical aspect. Good operators don’t need to know anything about technology to understand when a process is broken. They can see through the haze...
File & Folder Backup VS Image-Based Backup Cost
What is File & Folder Backup? It’s exactly as it sounds, it only backs up the files and folders you’ve created. It won’t backup any of the applications that you created the files with, nor will it backup any of the configurations you’ve made to the operating...
Is My Antivirus Enough To Protect My Business?
To understand if your antivirus and/or antimalware is enough to keep your business safe, you first need to understand a little bit of what they do and how they differ. Once you have a grasp of that it will be easier to understand what possible risks can come with...
Your Employee NDA Doesn’t Matter If IT Isn’t Setup Right
Imagine you have a sales guy for a few years and he quits on you one day to go work for a competitor. Their manager then asks the HR department for a copy of the person's signed NDA and asks IT Company to allow access to their inbox and to forward all emails to a...
Do I Need Ongoing IT Support?
Imagine this. You’ve just spent months working closely with engineers and project managers, to design, configure, and install your company’s new server environment that will house not only your data but run your main business applications. You’ve signed off on the...
