CIT’s IT Services Can Be your Answer to No Downtime Many SMB owners think IT downtime only costs them a few productive hours, but there’s a lot more at stake when your systems go down. Customer satisfaction and loss of brand integrity are just two of the key losses apart from the more evident costs such…
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Managed Service Provider Can Save Time and Money Almost by definition, small business owners and entrepreneurs cringe at the concept of outsourcing. Those who start their own companies like the control and autonomy it provides them. Unfortunately, that preference for control and autonomy may have some bad side-effects when it comes to IT. Small business don’t…
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CIT Plans for Everything with our Managed IT Services Managed Service Providers – or MSPs – are often recommended as a cost effective IT solution for small businesses. For a minimal monthly fee, MSPs provide a reasonably priced solution to the complex technology pains of small businesses. Here’s a look at the various benefits…
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A Business Continuity/Disaster Plan is a Safeguard for your Business During a Disruptive Event The foundation of any successful business continuity/disaster solution is the ability to retrieve data from any point in time from anywhere. When the topic of data recovery and business continuity comes up, you get the feeling that many decision makers…
DetailsLessons Learned from WannaCry / WannaCrypt0r A brief history… CIT has intentionally remained silent on the events of 12 May as we felt there was already enough media hype surrounding the WannaCry attack. This blog is not intended to add to that noise. Rather, its intention is to provide useful lessons learned from…
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As the traditionally paper-and-person investment industry collides head-on with the next-generation Fintech industry, the result is unpresented dynamism within the financial services industry. Balancing post-depression era risk mitigation techniques with high-speed, hyper-connected, and highly automated investment management systems creates unique imbalance. We at CIT see a future in which firms and their information are truly…
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The FinTech and financial services industry is an exciting and intellectually challenging sector more so today than ever before. Firms ranging from startup to those with global presence occupy the space and are developing innovative solutions at a seemingly breakneck pace. As traditional financial business models that have not evolved much from the 1930’s collide…
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Data Breach: Impact on Small Business Based on over 1,500 interviews with actual data breach victims, the 2016 Ponemon Data Breach study provides a grim portrait of the impact that a data breach can have on a business. CIT has taken the Ponemon data and interpolated it with Trustwave’s data breach report to focus…
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Server Monitoring: A Higher Standard When every tech company offers server monitoring, how can you know which service is best? There is something in a name – at least when it comes to our services. Technology Assurance Services. Assurance is literally our middle name! To reach that high bar we must be absolutely certain about…
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2017 Cyber Liability Insurance Considerations The average cyber breach cost in 2016 was $665,000 (@NetDiligence). I repeat, $665,000. For most businesses, that’s game over. Cyber liability insurance is an effective tool at insuring against a growing business threat. While not an end-all solution, it rounds out a risk management program nicely and at a relatively…
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Vulnerabilities in IoT As the phrase “Internet of Things” or IoT enters our cultural vernacular, many wonder what this new term means. The Internet of Things Simply put, IoT is the term given to connecting non-traditional devices to a computer network – most notably the Internet. Businesses have been connecting “things” to the network for…
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