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How to Know When It’s Time to Outsource Your IT Projects
How to Know When It’s Time to Outsource Your IT Projects The role of IT in an organization is more critical than ever before. As an organization’s technical footprint grows, so does its threat landscape, and maintenance obligations. Burdened with standard management, firms of all sizes ...?
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What Is Co-Managed IT Services, And Why You Should Be Thinking About It Now
What Is Co-Managed IT Services, And Why You Should Be Thinking About It Now Managing the IT infrastructure of an organization is never a one-person job. As such, businesses develop IT teams to handle all IT services. However, more and more companies, especially (small-to-medium-sized businesses) SM...?
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How to Select a VoIP or Phone Service Provider
Picking VoIP or phone service vendors for your business can be a tedious exercise. There are dozens of options out there, local and national providers, and reviewing costs against pages and pages of terms of service can be a drawn out process. We can all agree, fine print is a foe of clarity and pro...?
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AlphaRidge Acquires Lynx Managed IT Services Business
ALPHARIDGE ACQUIRES LYNX MANGAGED IT SERVICES BUSINESS Lynx Focuses On Security As AlphaRidge Acquires Managed IT Services FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday July 31, 2018 CONTACT: Krista Kaszycki krista@alpharidge.com Doug Yarabinetz dyarabinetz@lynxtp.com New York, NY, ...?
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5 Tips for Remaining HIPAA Compliant
As Amazon’s Alexa becomes increasingly concerned with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance, we thought we’d share 5 quick tips to help keep individual physician practices HIPAA compliant. Backup & Failover Having a backup of your ...?
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When Should I Replace My Firewall?
We’ve worked with a lot of firewalls here at AlphaRidge. Every now and again we encounter a real dinosaur, firewalls as old and clunky as a cassette player (okay, maybe not that old but you get the picture). While Apple might push you on a yearly upgrade, not all hardware has nor should it hav...?
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How to Know When It’s Time to Outsource Your IT Projects
How to Know When It’s Time to Outsource Your IT Projects The role of IT in an organization is more critical than ever before. As an organization’s technical footprint grows, so does its threat landscape, and maintenance obligations. Burdened with standard management, firms of all sizes ...?
Read More
What Is Co-Managed IT Services, And Why You Should Be Thinking About It Now
What Is Co-Managed IT Services, And Why You Should Be Thinking About It Now Managing the IT infrastructure of an organization is never a one-person job. As such, businesses develop IT teams to handle all IT services. However, more and more companies, especially (small-to-medium-sized businesses) SM...?
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Phishing Trip Canceled – How to Identify & Avoid Phishing Attempts
Every single day thousands of phishing attempts hit inboxes around the world. Many of them will be far less obvious than others. But what is phishing, and why is it so harmful? What are some techniques to help you identify and avoid phishing attacks? Phishing is the attempt to access sensitive info...?
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Best Practices for Managing Software Development Projects
Recent studies have suggested that as much as 85% of software development projects fail. Often an organization will bring on a software developer without an in-depth consideration of the resources – both financial and otherwise – that software development projects demand. Alpha...?
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Why You Should Think Twice About That Free Software
College textbooks are notoriously expensive. Every semester university students near and far scramble for a way to avoid paying for their required reading, even if it means spending 15 hours a semester making copies or trading textbooks in private Facebook groups. Encountering this behavior on a cam...?
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How Law Firms Can Make Cybersecurity a Priority in 2018
Law firms, an obvious target for cybercriminals, have servers holding sensitive data like business’ IP, bank information, medical records, and other personal information. What can they do to make cybersecurity a priority in 2018? Law firms bear an ethical obligation to keep client dat...?
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7 Office Cybersecurity Tips
7 Cybersecurity tips for the workplace… Employees can be both your greatest asset and your greatest vulnerability. Having an iron-clad security protocol in place will help decrease how susceptible your business is to an cyber-incident. Make Cyber Awareness a Part of Onboarding Star...?
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When Should I Replace My Firewall?
We’ve worked with a lot of firewalls here at AlphaRidge. Every now and again we encounter a real dinosaur, firewalls as old and clunky as a cassette player (okay, maybe not that old but you get the picture). While Apple might push you on a yearly upgrade, not all hardware has nor should it hav...?
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Phishing Trip Canceled – How to Identify & Avoid Phishing Attempts
Every single day thousands of phishing attempts hit inboxes around the world. Many of them will be far less obvious than others. But what is phishing, and why is it so harmful? What are some techniques to help you identify and avoid phishing attacks? Phishing is the attempt to access sensitive info...?
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