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Managed IT Services for Small Businesses

Companies of all sizes insist on operational efficiency, but all businesses are not equally prepared to maintain such demand. Small businesses could have limited IT resources, which means that they can rapidly fall behind in network management and updates, and this indeed can go to …

Creating an Effective Cybersecurity Strategy to Protect Your Business

Small businesses today are plagued by cyberattacks from viruses, phishing and ransomware. How can you protect your networks and systems from malware? Below is a multi-faceted strategy to counter the intrusion of hackers and cyberthieves. Prioritize a Cybersecurity Best Practices Culture with Employees The first …

Spam Folders – Why Authenticate Your Email

Spam folders can be pure frustration and your superhero all in one technology. We’ve all had the spam folders conversation – Did you get my email? (wait 20 minutes) Oh, your message was in my spam folder. Or perhaps you were sending out that important …

Cybersecurity Risk and 71% of Businesses Who Are Set to Burn

Cybersecurity Risk is definitely a bake-a-Brûlée situation. (Ugh, really Kevin?) If you aren’t paying attention – you could eventually burn down your house. Cyber-attacks were up almost 20% in 2017, which turned up the oven temperature – 9.32 Billion Malware attacks cranked up the browning …

Cyber Security vs. Your Office Culture

Cyber security is effected by your office culture By now, most people have heard of the cyber security incident at Equifax. Unfortunately, Equifax is not alone in its tech team laziness. When you look deeper into what happened – a lot of it shows just …

Managed IT Services and 5 Reasons Why You Need It

Managed IT Services aren’t sexy, but your business relies on it. I don’t often write straightforward plugs for our services in our technology blog, but I think it is time to revisit why Network Medics is a managed it services provider now instead of a …

Google Docs Scam Attempt Warning

Google Docs Scam Flooding the World If you didn’t get a fraudulent email already, please be advised that a Google Docs scam has hit the world with a spearphishing attack against a their document solution. Thankfully, within an hour, Google said they shut down the …

Network Medics Celebrates 9 Years of Service

Network Medics Celebrates 9 Years of Best Practice Managed IT Services Every year, Network Medics celebrates continued growth of our company and our clients. Since 2008, we have provided quality, ethical, and best practice managed IT services to the Minneapolis/St.Paul 7 county metro area. From …

Lord of the Ransomware – Return of the Cryptolocker

Ransomware steals and holds your data hostage. For years, ransomware protection and removal has been a large cat-and-mouse game with internet security companies like Symantec, McAfee, and TrendMicro. Unfortunately, cryptolocker, a variant that spread like wildfire in 2014 has resurfaced stronger then ever. Generally, they …

Business IT Resolutions for 2017

Every year brings new business IT challenges. Did you just join a gym? Along with your health, it is a good time to review your business IT health. As opposed to yoga pants and water bottles, in this case you need quality technician experience, training, …