Did you know small businesses are the primary target of cyberattacks? As levels of cybercrime rise, small businesses across Canada have been left vulnerable to security breaches, malware, and other common cyber threats. Being the victim of a cyberattack doesn’t just hurt your business; it can also harm your customers. Your customers trust you to […]
What would happen if your business was hacked today? What if you experienced a technical outage and lost critical data? For businesses that don’t use the cloud, emergencies like this can be catastrophic–that’s why so many businesses in Alberta are switching to secure cloud hosting. Secure cloud hosting prevents problems like cyber attacks and data […]
How secure is your small business? Just because your business is small doesn’t mean that hackers won’t target your sensitive data or client information. In reality, cybercriminals often target small and medium-sized businesses because they don’t have the budget for comprehensive cybersecurity measures–making them the perfect target for cyber threats. Unfortunately, many small businesses gloss […]
Many SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) in Alberta choose to hire international IT providers. The very nature of most IT companies means that you can work with providers worldwide, so many businesses don’t consider hiring locally as an option. While working with an IT company that does not have a local presence may seem attractive, […]
Disasters can come in many shapes and sizes – a natural disaster, hardware failure, data breach, or cyber attack. Whatever the cause, due to our reliance on technology, every business needs to have a disaster recovery plan in place to minimize the damage and get back up and running as quickly as possible. In this […]
For small-to-medium businesses, managing your day-to-day services, clients and data can be hard enough. If you’re running your IT department in-house as well, you may feel overwhelmed. That’s where an IT provider comes in. Because of our reliance on technology and the importance that IT has in the business world, many organizations are searching for a […]
Disasters can disrupt our way of life and cause unexpected problems that are out of our control. Between 2018 and 2020 alone, there was over $230 billion in damage caused by natural disasters. One way we can reduce the impact unexpected events have is by setting up a business continuity or disaster recovery plan we […]
Imagine that your company was able to decrease its lost sales by 30% and its forecasting errors by 20%. You see an increase in revenue, less downtime, and a reduction in waste. That sounds like a dream, right? Well thankfully, it’s not! This is what French food production company Danone Group was able to accomplish […]
Technology impacts every part of your business, so deciding how to outsource your IT is no small task! You might be weighing the pros and cons of staying local or going national with a large company. The title of our blog might give us away, but we think there are some great (and unexpected) benefits […]
Cyberattacks can happen anytime and on any device. At the Digital Risk Summit 2022, leading cybersecurity researchers at Group-IB found that in 2021 over half of all cybercrime were scams. As a business owner, you cannot control how your employees use their personal computers and mobile devices when they’re not at work. What you can […]