For most small and mid-sized businesses in Chicago and the northwest suburbs, a cloud migration means four specific things: email and identity move to Microsoft 365, file shares move off a Windows file server into SharePoint and OneDrive, line-of-business applications either move to a vendor-hosted version or get rehosted, and whatever is left in the…
The five vendors a Chicago-area small or mid-market business will realistically be choosing among are SentinelOne, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sophos Intercept X, and Huntress. Four of those are endpoint detection and response platforms you can buy head to head. Huntress is different, and worth understanding as a managed detection layer that runs…
Zero trust architecture means no user, device or network location is trusted by default, and every request to reach an application gets evaluated at the moment it is made. In practice, an MSP building one for a Chicago business is doing five things: putting phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication on every account, blocking the legacy protocols that…
In a world of rampant cybercrime, hackers thrive on the blind faith of their targets. Despite high-profile digital security breaches showing up in the news nearly every week, most people assume they’re safe from attack. The thinking goes that while Fortune 500 corporations like J.P. Morgan, Sony, Tesco Bank, and Target have lost millions of…
[img src=”/wp-content/uploads/sites/1613/2017/12/blog_etechtip_ap_jan_01.jpg” class=”alignright xs-aligncenter”] As anybody working in IT will tell you, the most common question we get isn’t, “Why is my computer running so slowly?” or “Why is my Internet not working?” It’s, “What do you charge for your services?” With so many IT companies clamoring for your attention, it makes sense that you’d…
