Reports are flooding the news about statistics for cybersecurity and what attacks have increased in the past year. In a report from spam filtering service AppRiver, their Cyberthreat Index rates businesses as Very High, with 60% of businesses leaning towards a complete absence of cybersecurity confidence and readiness. Does your business fall in that 60%? If it does, read
There’s something very personal about finding the right help desk service. They’re the ones you call in a crisis. They’ll be in and out of your most critical assets. You need to make sure you can trust them. When interviewing different Managed Service Providers (MSP), look for these key points about their help desk services.
Hysteria is ensuing around the globe as Coronavirus is deemed a pandemic. We’ve seen this before with SARS, Swine Flu, Ebola, and Zika Virus, so why do we act like Coronavirus is the end of the world? Coronavirus is different in that you can become contagious, then show symptoms, which poses a few problems. Despite what you hear
Ransomware attacks were one of the defining cybersecurity threats of 2019, and just two months into 2020, it’s clear that bad actors will continue to deploy this malware to capitalize on their criminality. As companies grapple with the implications of this new reality, many are turning to cybersecurity insurance as a way to offset the
Cybersecurity is a complicated subject. It’s hard to understand all the facets, the moving gears that are constantly changing. It’s complicated even for me and I work with it everyday. There are aspects that can help to make sense of the fundamentals. The 5 key steps within the framework that the National Institute of Standards and
Every year, the cultural phenomenon that is Black Friday and Cyber Monday rolls around. Wallets (and sometimes punches) are thrown in all different directions, trying to get the best deals for Christmas gifts. Most people get through it unscathed, but high stakes, time constraints, and emotions make for a vulnerable shopper. This unstable atmosphere creates
The cyber security landscape is rapidly evolving- the tech that kept you safe last year won’t keep you safe this year. Firewalls and antivirus alone won’t protect you from the incessant hacking attempts to your business. That’s like having one bouncer stand in front of your business and 100 bigger bouncers trying to get in at
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Discover and create the best version of what your business can be. Our certified advisors guide you through our platform and systems to help you discover new opportunities to leverage technology for your business’s ultimate Digital Transformation (Dx). We use a well-defined, comprehensive platform, so you’re not left in a black hole of vagueness and endless consulting hours. Our weekly peer group collaboration with other consultants keeps us current with ideas. The list below shows how we utilize the platform to help you.
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Creating an organized work environment free of hassle and bottlenecks allows your employees to enjoy meaningful work. That satisfaction is passed onto clients and vendors. This helps build a strong bond between management and staff as they collaborate to create improved workflows and business processes together. What better way for employees to feel respected and important than for you to announce that you want to understand what they go through every day and improve their lives? Your employees are typically on the front line doing the client-facing work. Reduce employee and client turnover by implementing our Digital Transformation systems such as the 10-Point exercise to discover ideas from your employees on how they think the work can be improved. Empower them with a voice while you conduct a Discovery Process that:
You don’t have to do team-building exercises involving closing your eyes and trusting that someone will catch you from falling. You accomplish what everyone wants, esteem, respect, and recognition.
You can access the same information as your Baroan account manager. Find out about asset life cycles, roadmaps, and budgets. Easily view information and be on the same page utilizing dashboards and detailed reports to facilitate planning. Having access to information on more than a need-to-know basis builds long-term relationships. Many of our clients have been with us for more than ten years and up to 20+ years because we communicate and share information freely. We keep evolving by improving our reports to review all account information. However, our new platform takes it to the next level with scoring gauges for quick views of where to set priorities. The information is organized in logical groupings with attached quotes for each grouping which builds the budget and timeline. Behind the scenes, there are multiple tools for discovering warranties and subscription status information, which provide a complete picture of your assets and where you can improve.
Call today and ask for a tour of our platform so you can see sample reports and how the platform is structured to give you the best connection to what you have and where you should be with your hardware, software, and network infrastructure.
In Maslow’s personal hierarchy, safety is second only to air, water, and food. You need to protect your business, satisfy industry compliance, and cybersecurity insurance requirements. Many sophisticated businesses employ the best of the best hackers who are endlessly trying to find ways into your business. We will help prevent breaches with our NIST-based tiered strategy that includes tools, services, best practices, and ongoing education. Cooperation with the client’s staff is important because your staff represents a gateway to your network and critical data. At Baroan, security is emphasized for our implementations, support, and network designs. The five-stage NIST Framework includes – Identify – the organizational understanding to manage cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities. Protect – develop and implement the appropriate safeguards to ensure delivery of critical infrastructure services. Detect – develop and implement the appropriate activities to identify the occurrence of a cyber security event. Respond – develop and implement the appropriate actions for a detected cybersecurity event. Recover – The recover function aims to get back any data that might have been lost as a result of a breach or attack. It also deals with restoring services to critical systems that may have been damaged because of the incursion.
The following is a high-level list of tools employed for your safety.
Are you safe? Call us today to schedule a risk assessment.
Similar to air, water, and food for your body, you need to get this right to survive. Nothing else will function properly without the proper Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) of your IT infrastructure. Baroan Technologies has invested seven years of research and development. This focused work evolved into a software company that has hundreds of other managed service providers (MSPs) utilizing the software solution that was created within Baroan Technologies. Working with these MSPs (and IT departments), we found a common theme. A tool is purchased, the standard templates provided are installed, the software is “turned on,” and the service provider or IT department is flooded with alerts. Eventually, the IT team turns the alerts off because they can never address the flood, and they miss critical alerts. They end up using the software for remote access and some basic features. However, they are not monitoring and maintaining as they should. We have addressed every nuance and detail related to RMM, starting with our Smart Monitors. Instead of applying static templates that quickly become obsolete, our Smart Monitors detect what you have and dynamically make the adjustments. Any MSP that purchases an RMM tool needs to create hundreds of scripted procedures. Most MSPs don’t have the time or necessary talent to do so, and the development never happens. Our program www.mspbuilder.com includes hundreds of dynamic scripts and procedures that evolve with each update. Each software tool we add to the suite of tools we use to maintain your network requires training, time, talent, and money to do it right. After we vet out a support tool, we select one of our Level Three engineers to become the expert in that software. They do the training, gain experience, and then they pass that knowledge onto the rest of the team. We also invest in professional services from the software vendor of the tool to review our installation and our use of the tool to make sure we are doing everything correctly and maximizing capabilities. Some examples of the suite of tools we use:
The following is a high-level list of tools employed for your safety.
Baroan Technologies adopted RMM very early in the history of MSPs and has invested heavily to make sure you have your air, water, and food to function properly. Remember that payroll is the biggest line item on the Profit & Loss statement for most businesses. Having your people wasting time looking at a “spinning wheel” preventing them from working or being on helpdesk calls about performance is a huge cost that adds up minute by minute. The dollars add up very quickly.
Call to schedule a review of our Statement of Work which is a specific legal document that lists everything we deliver for your business in the RMM category.