Shiny New Gadget Of The Month: Nest Cam

Keeping An Eye On Things While You’re Away

Have you ever worried about what’s happening at home when you’re away? The Nest Cam can keep you informed. This wide-angle camera streams sound and video to your smartphone. It will even warn you about any unusual activity.

Do You Accept Credit Cards?

Watch Out For These 5 Pitfalls That Could Lead To Lawsuits

If your company is not fully compliant with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards, you could be at risk of a serious tangle with attorneys. Technically, PCI guidelines are not a hard-and-fast set of laws.

Cybercriminals Now Have A Bull’s-Eye On Small Business… Is Your Company’s Data At Risk?

In a December 2014 survey by the National Small Business Association, 61% of small businesses reported being victims of a cybercrime within the past 12 months.

The average cost to recover from a cyber-attack skyrocketed from $8,699 per attack in 2013 to $20,752 per attack in 2014. And, of the businesses targeted, 68% said they’d been hacked more than once.

The Five Essential Characteristics to Enable Your Enterprise Architecture

With countless businesses attempting to implement Enterprise Architecture in their IT, many encounter problems with gaining credibility and communicating the value of it. However, there are five essential characteristics that lead to powerful Enterprise Architecture:

Integrity
Transparency
Empathy
Effective Communication
Selflessness

In terms of integrity, this translates to placing your organization first and sharing the truth of how to successfully enable your organization's EA team.

Lack of User Trust?

With IT and end users at odds with each other, we have a growing trend known as Shadow IT. These are groups inside businesses that will often sidestep their internal IT needs and receive it from third party users such as Google, Amazon Web Services and Rackspace.

Trust the Data at Your Organization?

We all want data that we can trust, and over the last year, Jexet of Chicago had the privilege of working with a larger organization and helping them to meet their IT goals. What did we do in preparation? First, we transformed the processes, and we found the right people to create a solid foundation of interconnected systems.

Understanding Managed IT Services

When listening to IT support, you will sometimes hear them call it managed services. What do managed services truly mean, and how do you find out if your IT company actually uses it. To clarify, managed services in IT occur when a business can offload their IT operations onto a service provider.

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