Poweron Technology Blog

Imagine the terror of arriving at the office only to find every screen glowing with the same cryptic message: "Your files are encrypted." If you’re like most business owners, this kind of situation could set you back weeks, and that’s not to mention the financial setback and permanent data loss that could occur as a result of such a ransomware attack. What your business needs is resilience, the kind that only immutable backups can offer.

What do you do when you realize you’ve written three sentences of absolute nonsense?

What do most of us do? We lean on the Backspace key. We sit there, staring at the screen, watching the cursor slowly eat away at the alphabet like Pac-Man. Waka-waka-waka-waka. The funny thing is that all that holding down the backspace key for five seconds is inefficient, and quite frankly, you’re better than that. It’s time to stop making a fool out of yourself and start tactically deleting your text. Let’s teach you how:

We’ve all been there. A client walks into the office, a contractor needs to check a manual, or a visitor is waiting in the lobby, and they ask that ubiquitous question: "What’s the Wi-Fi password?"

Sharing it feels like common courtesy, of course. If you are handing them the password to your primary office network, you are doing much more than sharing an internet connection. You are essentially handing a stranger the keys to your entire digital office.

The Federal Trade Commission has spent years providing businesses with guidance and advice concerning their security. Now, this guidance has converted into enforceable mandates.

In short, your business needs to have systems and protections in place—not plans—in order to abide by last month’s executive order that focuses on the prevention of cybercrime and fraud. Let’s touch on what needs to be accomplished in order for you to do so. 

Do you look at your technology as a cost center to be managed, or as a springboard for new revenue? If you’ve been following us for a while, you know we like to think of it as the latter. Small businesses spend much of their IT budget just to keep the lights on, stuck in an endless cycle of “surviving” rather than “thriving.” But with a virtual CIO, or vCIO, your business can reframe the conversation surrounding technology and look at it as an endless realm of opportunity rather than an endless loop of costs.