Imagine waking up on Halloween morning not just to trick-or-treaters knocking at your door, but to an alert that your company’s files have been encrypted overnight. Instead of costumes and candy, you face ransomware demands and potential business paralysis. That scenario feels scarier than any haunted house, yet for many...
When Your “Side Job” as IT Becomes a Hidden Cost
A family-owned manufacturing company in Wisconsin had a bookkeeper named Mark who “knew his way around computers.” Over time, small requests piled onto his plate: updating antivirus software, buying new laptops, fixing printers, handling password resets, even calling the internet provider when the connection failed. What started as the occasional...
How Standards and Best Practices Transform IT into Strategy
How Technology Standards Turn IT Risk into Business Strategy Picture this scenario: your company’s IT vendor recommends replacing aging firewalls or updating password policies. The technical explanation sounds reasonable but the real question in the boardroom is, “What risk are we actually reducing, and what happens if we don’t act?”...