Do you know every web application your employees are using? There is a high probability that your workforce is utilizing many devices and applications without explicit approval. Collectively, these programs and devices are called Shadow IT. Shadow IT is essentially any application employees download or IT service they sign up for without vetting by your IT team.
By Vince Tinnirello
Cybersecurity breaches are a daily news item these days. The most recent breach of Equifax has affected millions of Americans. You can see if you were personally affected by this breach by going here:
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While we’ve almost become immune to the hacks of big businesses such as Target, Home Depot, and Equifax, little attention is being paid to cybersecurity breaches in small business.
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In today’s fast-paced and global business environment, staying connected to the internet no matter where you are is important. Most people think that wireless is slow, unstable and unreliable. We agree.
This is absolutely my favorite time of year. There’s always so much going on in December just before the holidays. We all have so many personal commitments, and then there are those work projects we want to wrap up before the year ends.
As the Chair of the Managed IT Services Community for CompTIA, Vince was among a small group that had the opportunity to meet former Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning. He was the keynote speaker at CompTIA’s annual ChannelCon event, which was held at the Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, Florida in August.
Joe Miller, Network Administrator at Anchor had this fun vacation trip in June:
Here's what he shares:
"In June, while our daughter was away at summer camp in Texas, my wife and I took a trip to Las Vegas. We stayed at the beautiful Mandalay Bay resort.
The holidays are my absolute favorite time of year for several reasons...
First and foremost, people are just nicer to each other. While it shouldn’t take a holiday, it’s nice to see that whether it’s family, friends, coworkers, clients, vendors, or just someone you pass on the street, people treat each other with a little more grace and kindness this time of year.
We’d like to extend a warm welcome to James Varga, who is joining the Anchor technical team as a client Network Administrator. We are very excited to have James on our team, and look forward to him ramping up and delivering outstanding customer service to our clients.
At Anchor we are always looking for ways to improve our service delivery. Throughout the second half of the year we’ve undergone some changes and set big goals for ourselves as we finish out 2015. On the Service Desk, we’ve created a Rapid Response Technician role that we are hiring for currently.
Rick Roundy comes to Anchor Network Solutions with over 25 years of experience in technology. He began as a technician for the NYNEX Business Centers, Computerland and US West MRG before moving on to enterprise networking at Cabletron Systems and Copper Mountain Networks.