Each industry has a unique set of needs, which requires a customized solution.  In this blog, GTB addresses the Healthcare and Education industries’ primary needs and provides recommendations about how to best meet these needs.

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The Healthcare and Education industries represent organizations that provide people-centric services, such as eldercare facilities, medical and dental offices, schools and faith-based organizations.

Each industry has a unique set of needs, which requires a customized solution.  In this blog, GTB addresses the Professional Services Industry’s primary needs and provides recommendations about how to best meet these needs.

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The Professional Services industry includes organizations that have a primary focus on service, such as law offices, financial institutions, business associations, real estate and non-profits.

Most are aware of the common phone scam where a stranger calls you at home to tell you you’ve won something, and therefore need to give them your social security number and/or credit card information.  Fewer people are aware of a relatively new phone scam where you do a search on Google for “tech support phone number” for a large company that rarely, if ever, provides phone support to their customers – companies such as Facebook, Amazon and Google themselves.  In situations where a customer cannot find a solution to a problem with these larger companies, they c

There’s a new wave of enterprise firewall on the market called a next-generation firewall (NGFW). Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) have developed out of necessity of today’s computing environments, where malware attacks have grown in sophistication and intensity, and have found ways of exploiting weaknesses in traditional firewalls.

While your employees are emailing co-workers and customers and browsing the Internet, hackers and spammers are diligently trying to access their data, email and credit card information.  In 2015, IBM’s CEO stated that ‘Cyber crime is the greatest threat to every company in the world.’  Now, two years later, “global ransomware damage costs are predicted to exceed $5 billion,” according to Cyber Security Ventures.

A firewall is your company’s first line of defense

Most companies invest significant resources into furnishing their offices and purchasing the right computer and business systems to run their operations smoothly.  In order to protect their investments, they will often place sophisticated locks on their doors and equip their office with an advanced security system.  Even more, companies will often purchase insurance to protect themselves against property loss.

Your Internet hardware isn’t enough

Although most computer users in the U.S. and around the world are familiar with the risks associated with malicious software (i.e. viruses, worms and Trojans), relatively few users are aware of the hazards of Ransomware and its potential consequences for an attacked computer system and its users.

With multiple priorities vying for your attention, backing up your data can be one of those things you neglect to do.  -And even if it’s something you decide you need, there are so many backup service providers; how do you know which one to go with? 

Why care about data loss?

Let’s first review the costs of data loss.  The cost of losing data can be crippling to your business. 

Most people are familiar with the term “Computer Hacker”.  In fact, most of us take precautions to protect our computers and online activity by setting up special usernames and passwords.  Some of us even have physical “firewall” devices to protect our computer systems from intruders.

Network security is a broad and complex topic

In its bare-bones form, network security consists of policies and provisions that control access and monitor unauthorized access to computer networks.