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What is business continuity and why is it important?

Business continuity is an organization's ability to maintain essential functions during and after a disaster has occurred. Business continuity planning establishes risk management processes and procedures that aim to prevent interruptions to mission-critical services, and reestablish full function to the organization as quickly and smoothly as possible. The most basic business continuity requirement is to keep essential functions [...]

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Brace yourselves: Hybrid work is hard. Here’s how Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 can help

Work remotely with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 The shift to remote work over the last 18 months is one of the most significant changes in work culture since the Industrial Revolution. To understand how this change is impacting businessess, Microsoft has been conducting regular research and internal surveys. As reported in their recent Work

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Network security assessments: what they are and why you need them

What would happen if your organization’s networks were breached today? Do you know how many records would be exposed? Would you be able to find out immediately that there had been a breach? Most importantly — are your network’s defenses adequate to repel or respond to an attack? Many organizations don’t know until after the

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Small business network security checklist

Introduction to network security Your business faces threats on many fronts, and the more users, devices, and applications you add, the more vulnerable your network becomes. What is network security? Network security is any activity designed to protect the usability and integrity of your network and data. It includes both hardware and software technologies. Effective network

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New pricing for Microsoft 365

What you need to know about the Microsoft 365 pricing changes Microsoft recently announced changes to their commercial pricing for Microsoft 365—the first substantive pricing update since they launched Office 365 a decade ago. Since launching Microsoft 365 four years ago, Microsoft has added 24 apps to the suite, including Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Stream,

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Practical ways to protect your employees from hackers and phishing attacks

How to protect your employees from phishing attacks Sensitive information is stored and accessed digitally by businesses every day. While it's a lot more convenient for companies to have data stored digitally, unfortunately this also means these files are more vulnerable to attacks from hackers. Malicious users can gain access to a company’s data in

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Microsoft ending its Open License Program in 2022 – what you need to know

Say goodbye to Microsoft Open License Program The evolution and expansion for the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program is here. As part of the new commerce experience initiative, Microsoft has announced the sunset date for the Open License Program on January 1, 2022. In September 2020, Microsoft announced changes to the Microsoft Open License program

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