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Many businesses in the greater Boston area have found that outsourcing their IT support makes sense. When outsourcing, an organization looks to build a trusted partnership with a managed services provider who will then work with the company to take on IT-related tasks that the company doesn’t have the resources or budget to do in house.

Of course, it’s not just Boston businesses that are turning to this model. Thousands of organizations outside of Massachusetts rely on this service as well. Take a look at four reasons why outsourcing your IT support makes sense:

Every company I have worked for has decided to outsource their datacenter to a managed hosting provider, in some manner or another. Some only outsourced their websites, others went all in and had them manage their entire infrastructure. 

Most managed hosting providers will regulate everything from the operating system down the stack to the hardware, the cooling and the electrical for you. Many will use virtualization technology of some kind to help optimize usage and resources for you. They even help companies "right size" their virtualization environment when it goes into their hosting environment. 

Lily Hay Newman, in a recent article in Wired, pegs “poorly secured databases that connect directly to the internet” as a main culprit for many of today’s mega data breaches. Why? Robust database security offers a defense-in-depth strategy should an attacker breach your perimeter defenses. But if the security measures are left unused, the sensitive data presents an easy target for hackers to go after.

Businesses have a serious problem when it comes to IT. Many IT managers would agree that the speed of technology outpaces their workers’ skills. Boston-based companies are no stranger to this problem. Organizations across the region often find that their current teams lack the knowledge required to keep pace with newer technologies, or they have trouble hiring new employees to fill these needs. 

When it comes to cybersecurity, there’s one constant that business leaders can agree on: The threat landscape is ever evolving. As a result, Gartner forecasts that in businesses worldwide will spend more than $124 billion on information security spending in 2019. However, not all organizations have a large budget to spend on protecting their businesses. In the greater Boston area, the business community is focused on putting the right security services into place to help each of their organizations build a solid security foundation. Below are six services we recommend that you consider to build a strong security position.

According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, there have been approximately 11.2 billion records exposed in the more than 8,800 data breaches that have been publicly disclosed since 2005. In 2018 alone, there were more than 1 billion exposed records in that staggering total.

There have been a myriad of myths surrounding cloud computing ever since its inception. Unfortunately, too many decision-makers believe these myths when evaluating a service like Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their backup solution, which can either lead them down a path where they live under a false sense of security or cause them to avoid using AWS due to misconceptions. Below, we will take a look at a few of the myths that surround AWS backup solutions and address them to give you the right information.

In Office 365, administrators have the option to enable an additional layer of security: multi-factor authentication (MFA). This feature allows the IT staff to set two or more verification methods when it comes to user sign-ins and other transactions. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a subset of MFA where the end user is required to provide two methods of verification, as opposed to more. But if you are not sure if you want to go through the trouble of enabling 2FA in your environment, let’s take a look at four reasons that may change your mind.

In 2016, VMWare and Amazon announced a partnership that would make VMWare Cloud available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This partnership brought the capability for organizations to run their software both on their on-premises data centers and on the AWS cloud to create a true hybrid cloud or make it easier to move to the public cloud.

In 2017, Vade Secure reported that ransomware-infected emails rose 6,000 percent. Recent natural disasters have brought business operations down across the globe. Then there are outages that are the result of human error: Someone misconfigures something or enters the wrong command and systems go down.