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Comprehensive Managed IT Services: 3 Core Pillars
After years of offering comprehensive managed IT services, our BriteStar team has outlined and documented our approach to help every organization safeguard its technology. Technology enables us to live life and do business like never before. While we’re able to leverage it for good, if not properly managed it can be a nightmare. Between protecting…
Case Study: Managed IT Services for an Accounting Firm
Case Study | Managed IT Services for Accounting Firm: Regulations and Cybersecurity Driven The increasing potential of a breach and pressures from cybersecurity regulations paired with a hectic busy season led accounting and CPA firm RDG+Partners to seek a managed IT services for an accounting firm. RDG+Partners recognized that its expertise is in accounting,…
Case Study: MSP Reduces Impact of Disaster
Case Study: MSP Reduces Impact of Disaster Even a fire can’t halt the pace of business for BriteStar customers A disaster of any kind can take down a business in minutes. Before the digital age, physical damage to a business’s operations was the main concern. Now, as companies have become more reliant on IT infrastructure, damage…
Business Email Compromise: How to Recognize and Handle
Business email compromise is a highly specific and targeted tactic used in phishing emails for monetary gain. Would you rather learn how to spot one, or cost your company thousands? Hopefully, it’s the former because this blog shares insights into: What is business email compromise? How to recognize business email compromise. 3 steps if you…
CVE Management: Removing CVEs Swept Under the Rug
IT leadership builds and manages strong, diverse teams to ensure secure and stable operations. However, sometimes departments overlap resulting in confusion and miscommunication. Such is the case with networking and security departments when it comes to CVE management. It is important to address responsibility early on. Who should be held accountable for any unpatched known…
Embracing 5G in Public Safety – On-demand Webinar
Officers, firefighters and paramedics alike need secure, reliable and fast communications. They rely on one router to connect the increasing number of critical devices in their vehicle back to HQ. That’s where Sierra Wireless comes in with three of its newest XR devices using 5G for public safety. This on-demand webinar keeps public safety viewers…
Comparing Technology Solutions with CVEs
Your organization has a well-planned security strategy. The perimeter and devices are protected. End users are trained. Critical data is safeguarded. With the immense effort and expense of securing an environment, why would anyone still leave the metaphorical front door open to known vulnerabilities? The ease of use of the MITRE Corporation’s publicly available CVE…
Does Your Department Need FirstNet MegaRange?
Many departments have expanded coverage and increased reliability with help from FirstNet MegaRange. It sounds like a great addition – but does your department really need it? To answer this question you must first fully understand the details of FirstNet MegaRange. What is FirstNet MegaRange? Built by AT&T, FirstNet was originally created as a dedicated…
How to Spot Phishing Scams During COVID-19
Two years into the pandemic and phishers are devious as ever. It is no longer enough to consider yourself protected by recognizing traditional phishing email scams. It is essential to stay up to date with current tactics that are being used in COVID-19 phishing scams and the language that hackers use. Failing to do so…
6 Keys to Success for a User Awareness Training Program
It’s 23 years into the new millennium and cyberattacks are more prevalent, sophisticated and scarier than ever. It doesn’t matter how much a business invests in technologies and systems to protect its assets against threats if employees are incognizant of phishing emails and ransomware attacks. It’s time for businesses to get with the program. A…