Holiday Tech Gifts 2024
It's that time of the year again to offer our list of holiday gifts for the tech minded recipient on your list. Here are good bets for 2024. Logitech has a few options of wireless keyboards that are multi-device [...]
Compliance: What Every Business Needs to Know
Every business and organization needs to be aware of the importance of compliance and their technology. It is important to recognize that any organization collecting data needs to follow security standards. Compliance involves following and meeting legal and regulatory requirements [...]
Summer 2024 Travel Tech Tips
It's the season of summer travel, and it is important to prepare your technology just as you prepare your packing and trip planning. Every year, we emphasize the importance of keeping your technology safe when traveling and vacationing, even when [...]
The Importance of Vulnerability Scanning to Your Cyber Security
What is Vulnerability Scanning? Vulnerability is always a part of the cyber security discussion, but it is important to understand its link to cyber-attacks and subsequent disaster for your organization . We cannot stress enough how essential vulnerability scanning is [...]
Disasters Your Business Could Face When Not Using MFA and Other Security Measures: Case Studies from Our Experience
Recently, we have seen up close how a business can experience extreme damage when not using MFA and other security measures that we strongly encourage all of our clients to use. Here is a description of what occurred: What happened [...]
Tech Gifts for the Holidays
Every year, we post holiday tech gift ideas for the last minute shopper. Here are a few ranging from inexpensive to more expensive indulgences for any techie on your list. The Ray Ban Meta-Wayfarer Smart Glasses ($329 [...]
Why You Need a Spam Filter
We have been recently encouraging clients to consider a more robust spam filter than the one that comes built into Office 365. The reason is that we have been seeing an uptick in phishing attacks, email spoofing and other kinds [...]
Update on KnowBe4 Partnership: Ensuring Your Users are Not Exposed to Cybercrime
Back in November, Waytek posted a blog on our partnership with KnowBe4, a technology that can send fake phishing to the users in your organization to test and train them in better safe practices while using email. Recently, three employees [...]
Important Info on Backup for Office 365
Microsoft does not back up Office 365. Microsoft only backs up Office 365 (now known as Microsoft 365) for a short period of time. Afterwards, the customer is responsible for obtaining a backup on their own. Many customers assume that [...]
Password Managers and Security Breaches: What to Know
Recently, a major security breach made headlines because it was a security company that suffered the breach. LastPass, a popular security Password Manager program suffered the breach after cyber criminals obtained copies of customers' passwords, exposing their online information (see [...]
Holiday Tech Gifts
Every year, we share our thoughts on good gifts for the tech savvy person on your list or for anyone who uses technology. Here are what we found to be good bets for this year. Happy shopping! While the Apple [...]
Ensuring Your Users Are Not Exposing You To Cybercrime: Our New Partnership With KnowBe4
Waytek is excited about our new partnership with KnowBe4 in helping you identify weak spots in your organization. In partnership with KnowBe4, we now have the technology to actually send fake phishing to your users to test and then train [...]
Summer Travel Tech Tips
Below is our summer travel tech tip from last year. Everything in it holds true for this year. We can't stress enough how important these points are in securing your cyber security while traveling. Happy travels! Every year, we post [...]
Vulnerability Assessment: Ensuring Network Security
Vulnerability Assessment is an important feature in services we offer our clients and one that everyone should consider as a critical piece to ensuring a secure network environment. It is the process of defining, classifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities in computer [...]
Thoughts on Windows 11 for the SMB Owner
The Windows upgrade to Windows 11 has been available since last Fall and many of our customers have been confused about whether to upgrade and how to keep employees from instantly upgrading without the whole organization being on board. Here [...]
How to Shop the Internet Safely this Holiday Season
Every year we write on the importance of safe cyber shopping, especially during the holidays. Cyber crime is sadly here to stay, and some of the tried and true precautions and safety measures remain important and critical to best practices [...]
Holiday Tech Gifts 2021
It may be a little trickier obtaining some holiday gifts this season. There is a global chip shortage and disrupted supply chain, so some items on your list might be a challenge. Certain WiFi routers and laptops might be a [...]
2021 Tech Goals for Your Business: IT Security and Password Protection
Most of us breathed a sigh of relief to make it to 2021, and now is a good time to re-assess your IT and how to make it the safest and most proficient for your business. IT security remains a [...]
Special Tech Gifts Just for 2020
2020 has been a crazy year, to say the least. As we move into the holiday season, you might want to consider some of these great tech gifts that are especially useful this year for remote work and staying up [...]
Working Remotely And The Need for Desktop As A Service
Clients and potential customers often ask us why Desktop As A Service is critical for them. The answer is that standard security measures are not always enough to ensure complete protection. A large number of workers are working from home [...]
Covid, Cybercrime and Your IT Infrastructure: The Role of the MSP
The Covid19 virus has turned the world upside down, including business and the role of IT, forcing businesses to take a closer look at their IT infrastructure. According to mspalliance.com, MSPs are seeing a surge in customer activity as we [...]
Zoom and Beyond: Working Remotely with Video Conferencing
It has been over a month now that most of us have been working remotely, which often includes video conferencing. The Zoom app became an overnight success, as it was quickly utilized for family, friends and business meetings. Questions arose, [...]
How an MSP Can Help in the Age of Pandemics and Working Remotely
As an MSP, we have watched all of our clients, and all businesses and organizations, move to working remotely and shut down their offices temporarily due to the Covid19 virus or the Coronavirus. It has been a tough couple of [...]
Is Your Business Prepared for the Coronavirus? Working Remotely and More
It is impossible not to have heard of the coronavirus, and we are continually receiving information on the spread and precautions we should take. Have you also considered the impact the virus may have on your business? Everyone should be [...]
10 Best Holiday 2019 Tech Gifts
Looking for a gift for the techie in your life? Here are ten of the best holiday tech gifts for 2019. These tech gifts are great for the non-techie, too, and initiate anyone into the fun of technology. The Soundcore [...]
Cloud Hosting: Infrastructure as a Service
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is one of the most prominent types of cloud service being utilized today. Your service provider hosts hardware equipment, operating systems and other IT components for customers in an efficient and automated delivery model. It [...]
9 Tips to Prevent Ransomware: What the SMB Needs to Know
Ransomware continues to be one of the worst threats to businesses (especially the MSB) and one of the most prominent forms of cybercrime. How do you prevent being exposed to ransomware, and if you are infected, what do you do? [...]
Latest Malware Trends: How an MSP Can Help Safeguard Your Business
It is difficult to keep up with malware trends, since hackers keep re-inventing modes of attack. The bottom line is that malware is not going away, and attention paid to the latest trends and methods of security are critical to [...]
Holiday Tech Gifts 2017
Every year, we bring you some of the newest and best tech gifts for everyone on your list. Some are newer versions of products we have written about in previous years. Enjoy them all and happy shopping There are a [...]