Every so often, I spend some time going through Reddit (I see you. You do it, too). I’ll search things like “small business IT support,” “MSP worth it?”, or “should I outsource IT?” and just read what owners are saying. One business owner wrote that they were paying $3,000 a month for IT and still felt nervous every time a server rebooted. Another said their IT person was responsive, but …
The truth is that lot of “IT budgeting” conversations don’t start with strategy. They usually start when issues arise, say, like when someone needs better reporting, or a team is stuck doing month-end work by hand. A vendor demo looks pretty good, the price looks small, and the temptation is to solve the one pain point as fast as possible. …
From “I’m Too Small to Be a Target” to Cyber-Strong When I started working with Decypher a little over a year ago, I knew almost nothing about cybersecurity. I figured I was fine because my laptop had Microsoft Defender and I paid for McAfee. That covered me, right? I felt I was too small a fish for anyone to bother …