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Employee training & Cybersecurity

Employee training will form a big part of the cybersecurity initiative that you will take on as an organization. You need to train your employees to identify and respond correctly to cyberthreats. Here are some employee training best practices that you can make a part of your cybersecurity training program.

Create an IT policy handbookMake sure you have a handbook of your IT policy that you share with every new employee, regardless of their position in the company. This IT policy handbook must be provided to everyone–right from

Employee training & Cybersecurity

Employee training will form a big part of the cybersecurity initiative that you will take on as an organization. You need to train your employees to identify and respond correctly to cyberthreats. Here are some employee training best practices that you can make a part of your cybersecurity training program.

Create an IT policy handbookMake sure you have a handbook of your IT policy that you share with every new employee, regardless of their position in the company. This IT policy handbook must be provided to everyone–right from

Things to consider before switching to the Cloud

More and more businesses are switching to the Cloud to store their data and rightly so. The Cloud offers numerous benefits over the traditional, physical on site server. For example,

Anytime, anywhere access to your data: Information in the Cloud can be accessed from anywhere using an internet connection, unlike in the case of traditional servers, where you need a physical connection to the servers
Significant cost savings: You cut hardware costs, because the Cloud follows a ‘pay-as-you-use’ approach to data storage
SaaS compatibility and support:

I consider it a big part of my job at Advantech IT – one of the most important parts, in fact – to always stay up-to-date on all the latest happenings with cybersecurity around the world. If you want to beat your opponent, you have to learn to think like them – and in terms of protecting clients from hackers and others with malicious intentions, in my opinion, this is one of the most critical services that we provide.

When people think about common victims of data breaches, they usually think

Somehow,
December is upon us yet again, which can only mean one thing: a lot of
businesses out there are currently trying to figure out how to hit the
ground running as we move into 2020 in just a few short weeks.

Not
too long ago, I sat down with a fairly new client of ours for a lunch
meeting and we were discussing this very process. As someone who has
been in this business for many years, it’s something I’m going through
right now myself – so it was nice

From Precise Packaging to Pro-Tect Fireproofing, many of our clients have needed help with updating their software or hardware solutions. Updating is difficult: it takes time to research the right solutions and to come up with a non-disruptive plan. With our solutions, our clients are able to upgrade to new products without having to dedicate their own already stretched resources towards it. And that matters: it enables them to leverage newer technology without substantial upfront cost.

Older technology costs a company in more than just their bottom line. Here’s what

15 years ago when I was just starting out my career in IT, we still largely lived in a world of paper. Sure, the Internet was becoming more commonplace and desktops were cropping up in offices everywhere – but it was still a “hard copy” era all the same.

Fortunately or unfortunately, we don’t live in that world of paper any longer.

On paper, IT should be something you never have to think about – it just “works” and you never even realize it’s there. But IT is nothing if not inherently

Since 2003, we’ve been helping our clients develop proactive IT strategies to protect, maintain, and extend their infrastructure. We provide support for small businesses, accounting firms, manufacturing firms, and construction. And though these are very different industries, one thing remains the same: employee training is critical for the purposes of security.

Employees are responsible for the vast majority of cyber attacks and data breaches. Employees will share passwords with each other, download malware, and respond to requests for personal or confidential information. In an accounting firm, employees will deal with personal

I spend a lot of my time at AdvanTech educating our clients about the fast-paced world of IT that is constantly evolving all around us. I consider it to be a fun part of my job – things change so quickly that I can’t expect everyone to catch up. But getting people up-to-date on some of the incredible things taking place always makes for fun – and helpful – conversations.

Just the other day, I was on the phone with one of our clients and he brought up the topic of