Think your biggest business problems are keeping up with industry trends, outpacing your competitors, finding the best talent, or figuring out how a hybrid work model fits your organization? Each of these may undoubtedly be a challenge, but here’s another one to add to your (likely growing) list: Ransomware. The severity and sophistication of ransomware attacks keep escalating across all industries. Cybersecurity Ventures, a top global cyber economy research and publishing organization, has predicted that ransomware perpetrators will have refined their “trade” enough to attack every two seconds in less than ten years. In 2021, the Financial Trend Analysis (which is produced by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, part of the US Treasury Department) found the following: $102.3 million: [...]

The impact of technology is constantly shaping the workplace. Here’s a look at how technological advancements have increased everything from productivity to profitability. Office life is at the center of the popular TV series Mad Men, yet you may not have noticed the groundbreaking technology of the time illustrated throughout the show. From typewriters to the invention of the conference call, the available tools changed the way of work in the 1960s. Giant leaps in technology continue to shape the modern office, from how businesses communicate with customers and how employees interact to automating repetitive tasks and seeing profitability clearly. Here are five ways that technology has affected the workplace of today. Increased productivity From in-cloud Gantt charts to digital [...]

AccountabilIT (AIT) has the expertise and capabilities to provide security-related services on Azure and Microsoft 365. They help customers protect networks, data, apps, endpoints, and identities from cyber threats. Scottsdale, September 1, 2021.- AccountabilIT, the rapidly-growing Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and Managed Service Provider (MSP), announced today that it has achieved Microsoft Gold Security Competency status. By attaining this Security Competency, AccountabilIT has proven to have the background, skills, management, and reliability needed for designing, implementing, and managing customer information security using Microsoft solutions. Microsoft awards Gold Competency (its highest certification level) only to partners who exemplify high-level expertise as well as a demonstrated specialization in each technology or service area. The Gold Security Competency is AccountabilIT's 4th Gold Competency awarded [...]

PHOENIX, AZ — January 8, 2021 — AccountabilIT has announced it has acquired Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), a managed services provider in Arizona. The purchase will allow both companies to expand their presence and dominance in the Arizona and national markets, and to offer a wider variety of services and products to their customers.  AccountabilIT has been an innovative leader in both the cybersecurity space (being the first partner to offer Microsoft Azure Sentinel) as well as in cloud computing. The acquisition fits into AccountabilIT’s strategy to expand its footprint in key national markets, along with its practice of hardware and software resale (a core offering of ETS). This joining of forces and competencies will further cement both companies’ reputations [...]