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In March of 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law. This was the first pandemic-related stimulus-response bill passed since the CARES Act in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic. The ARP provided $350 billion in direct federal funding to state, local, and tribal governments to help navigate the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Are you on top of how your team is sharing information within and outside of your organization? In an effort to boost productivity, your employees may be using unauthorized cloud-based apps or other workarounds to share files. This type of unauthorized software is known as “shadow IT.” Typically it flies under the radar at most companies, falling outside of allowable protocols.

The Internet is an essential business tool, both personally and professionally. Unfortunately, there are many criminals who use it to take advantage of the unsuspecting. Recognizing suspicious emails can protect your business from criminals looking for money, or personal and confidential information.

Technology is essential to keep your business running, so when you have an IT outage, it can be costly in more ways than one. With lost productivity, data loss, revenue loss, and the cost of recovery, IT downtime can cost over $5,600 per minute! Fortunately, there are steps you can take to minimize IT downtime and its effect on your business.

Every day employees unintentionally put their workplaces at risk by opening emails from unknown senders, clicking on links that look legitimate - but aren’t, or printing out sensitive documents and forgetting them at the printer. While these actions may seem harmless, they could be putting your business at risk. Human error is one of the main causes of cyberattacks.

COVID-19 changed everything in 2020. Today, we're all also operating under the concept that this is a new reality, though we're hopeful things will return to “normal” in the near future. 

Today, any business that wants to remain competitive relies on strong IT support. In today's digital world, as technology continues to evolve, companies are dealing with additional IT functions, including cybersecurity, printing, device management, cloud hosting, remote support, disaster recovery and tech support.