To help with this holiday season, we want to share a few Tech Tips for your holiday travels! Keep an eye on your electronics. No matter where you go, don?t leave your laptop, phone, or tablet unattended. While the majority of focus today is on cybersecurity, theft is still a real element of that. Keep your devices tucked away and off of chairs, counters, or tabletops when not using them. Use a VPN to protect your privacy. Public internet connections are not secure, even if the airport, hotel, or restaurant Wi-Fi requires a password to connect. If you aren?t using Virtual Private Network (VPN), your privacy and information are at high risk. A VPN helps encrypt your data so that hackers who are sharing public Wi-Fi networks can?t access it easily. Use a VPN and have antivirus software set up on all your devices. Back up your data before you leave. Backing up data can help to ensure that you don?t lose the irreplaceable moments from your life. Whether your mobile devices or computer is lost or stolen, safely backing up and storing your photos and videos will allow you to retain that data in the event of a catastrophe. Another way to help with this is to make sure that all you have updated the operating systems and software on all your devices, making them fully patched and up to date! Save your important documents. Physical documents can be damaged, lost, or stolen while traveling. Scanning and saving these documents in your phone, through a cloud data storage service such as Google Drive or iCloud, allows you to easily recall them if need be, while also keeping them safe and secure. You should also employ strong passwords on your laptop, phone, and tablet to protect these documents for your privacy. Protect your whereabouts and private information. While we all like to share photos of our travels with our friends, there?s no need to do it while you are traveling! Save the social media posts for once you?ve returned home. Besides preventing thieves from targeting your house, this will help to prevent cyber criminals from using your information to impersonate a hotel in an attempt to steal your credit card information. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency is also a great resource, with tips on everything from email and communication to mobile devices to network defense and enterprise security to privacy and so much more! Info Advantage can be your technology ally, from useful resources to proactive care to 24/7 maintenance, it?s our goal to help you improve efficiency, increase productivity, and secure your technology. We hope you and yours enjoy a wonderful holiday. Please reach out to us if you have any IT needs!
As we move closer to January and the turning of the page on 2022, we?re so thankful to have been able to spend another year doing what we love. It?s now been 31 years since Info Advantage was founded in 1992 and we remain just as dedicated as ever to providing top-notch, enterprise-level IT practices and solutions to our clients! One of the most important things that we have learned over the years is the importance of having the right ally to help guide your business. That?s why we adhere to the Info Advantage Proven Process; the roadmap we follow to create consistency and deliver an optimal customer experience! The most pivotal point in our relationship with a client is the first step: Understanding Your Business! We?re able to do this through a process that includes assessing your technology, assessing your operations, conducting a gap analysis, and then creating an executive summary. From there, our Proven Process includes developing your strategic technology roadmap, offering guidance on what solutions make the most sense, implementing your plans step-by-step, and then continuing to ensure your technologies stay up to date in the future. Info Advantage continues to partner with businesses across numerous industries, striving to eliminate IT issues before they cause expensive downtime, thus allowing you to continue to drive your business forward. Our staff loves seeing our clients succeed. We believe that your success is our success, and as you grow, so do we. Our clients drive everything that we do and knowing that we have met or exceeded their expectations is what drives our business forward. That?s one of the main reasons we?re so appreciative of client feedback, reviews, or testimonials. Not only are they helpful from a business perspective, but they serve as a constant reminder of why we do what we do ? to help you succeed! These are a few of our favorite Google Reviews from 2022: ?Strong, knowledgeable team. Never forcing a preconceived idea or solution. Always finds the best solution or mix of solutions for the situation at hand.? ? Dennis A. ?Staff is always pleasant and most anxious to create a pleasant experience.? ? Betty M. ?Matt?s service was fantastic. He was professional and fixed the problem in a timely manner. You guys are the best!? ? Brenda C. At Info Advantage, we like feedback and learning how we can improve our client?s experience! In that regard, we?re happy to announce our Holiday Google Review Raffle! Google Reviews are a great way for us to gather feedback, to learn what we have done well and where we can improve. With that in mind, anyone who leaves Info Advantage a Google Review by December 31st, 2022, will be entered into a raffle to win a $30 Amazon Gift Card! We hope you all have a happy and healthy holiday season and look forward to hearing from and working with you again in 2023!
The holiday season is always an important time for reflection. Taking a pulse of where you are, what you?ve done well and what you can do better, where you want to be in the future, and most importantly, what you are thankful for. Today, we want to share more about five technologies we?re thankful for and the impact they can have on your business! Enterprise Mobility Management: We understand that, in some way, mobility is a major pain point of most businesses. Our Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution is geared towards helping your organization better understand, manage, and secure your mobile systems. With EMM you can access mobile device productivity solutions, expect secure device management, and utilize mobile device management; allowing you to improve operations with mobile devices, keep your operating systems and software solutions in check, and remotely manage and maintain devices and business apps. Remote Maintenance & Network Monitoring: Despite the difficulties that come with technology management, maintenance is an absolutely vital task that must be fulfilled in order to get the most from your hardware and software. Our proactive Remote Monitoring Maintenance & Network Monitoring (RMMNM) solution is designed to remediate these issues for your business, while making them more affordable than ever before. RMMNM provides regular system updates and patches, comprehensive remote monitoring, and affordable fixed rates! Hosted Server: The cloud is everywhere! Today, one of the top benefits of cloud computing comes from what it can offer in the form of server and infrastructure hosting. By choosing to host your company infrastructure, you ensure optimal levels of reliability and stability, along with minimized downtime. Some of the benefits of Info Advantage?s Hosted Server solutions, and other critical computing solutions in our data center, include: less hardware to maintain, more space in your office, considerable reduction in costs, reduction in overhead, and professional support. Voice over IP Phone Systems: Fully featured VoIP solutions are able to offer your business major costs benefits by utilizing your internet connection for all of your organization?s communication needs! Info Advantage?s Voice Over IP Phone System solutions eliminate the communication limitations of money and geography and comes standard with dozens of useful features. Disaster Recovery as a Service: The more data your organization has, the more important its protection becomes. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers new options to help your business sustain itself should disaster strike, ensuring that your files are protected and that your operational downtime is kept to a minimum. With DRaaS you can leverage cloud solutions and cut down on organizational risk to provide your business with peace of mind. If your business relies on hosted computing solutions, you cannot afford to not have a solution in place to protect your business from the perils of data loss! As a technology consulting company, Info Advantage helps businesses improve operational efficiency, increase productivity, and strengthen network security using technology; differentiating ourselves through our ability to translate operational needs to technology initiatives, navigate manufacturers and different technologies, and align the best solutions to solve business needs! Interested in seeing what we can do for your business or how we can put some of our favorite technologies to use for you? Contact us today for a free consultation! We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends and lots of […]
Would you be interested in working with a company that over 615,000 other businesses have trusted with their cybersecurity solutions? What about one that offers the most comprehensive solutions to help accelerate security, maximize productivity, preserve user experience, and lower total cost of ownership? We certainly were! That?s why we?re excited to tell you more about our friends at Fortinet, a global leader of cybersecurity solutions and services! As the yearly cost of cyber crime continues to rise and attacks continue to target a variety of businesses, it?s more important than ever that your organization has the proper cybersecurity protocols in place. Fortinet delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the cloud to the data center to the home office. Founded in 2000, and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet is committed to cybersecurity innovation and excellence. Fortinet works with enterprise, small business, service providers, and partners and offers a range of products including network security, cloud security, security operations, endpoint security, managed services, and technology alliances. Believing that today?s enterprises require a new approach to cybersecurity, the Fortinet Security Fabric brings together the concepts of convergence and consolidation to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for all users, devices, and applications, across all network edges! Along with our friends at Fortinet, Info Advantage is excited to share that our next event will be a Movie Premier Event, featuring a ?The Way To Cyber Protection? presentation. The movie? Avatar: The Way of Water, a sequel to 2009?s Avatar, which is the highest grossing movie of all-time! Join us on Thursday, December 15th at 5:30pm to enjoy the Fortinet presentation, networking, and a movie premier; all of which will take place at the Tinseltown Theater located at 2291 Buffalo Road in Rochester, New York! At Info Advantage, we take pride in our ability to partner with other area businesses as we strive to eliminate IT issues before they cause expensive downtime. Partnerships, like our one with Fortinet, and events, like our upcoming movie event, are a few ways that we try to ensure you get the best service possible! Head over to our registration page now to save your spot for the upcoming movie event or contact us today to learn more about cyber protection and how Info Advantage and Fortinet can ensure that your business is secure!
Are you or your organization interested in learning more about how you can stop hackers? Interested in doing that in a fun environment where you can network at the same time? Then you don?t want to miss our upcoming event with our friends from Arctic Wolf, an Axe Throwing Night at Lasertron in Rochester, New York! The ?Take The Hacker?s Bullseye Off Your Back!? event will take place on Thursday, October 20th from 4:00 ? 7:00PM and is a great opportunity to join us for an evening of games, food, drinks, and networking! We?re delighted to be taking on this event with our friends at Arctic Wolf, the industry leader in security operations. Experts will tell you that cybersecurity is a field that requires 24×7 vigilance and constant adaptation. Arctic Wolf provides that, delivering uniquely effective security solutions! Arctic Wolf?s key security offering, their Security Operations Platform (SOP), is designed to collect, enrich, and analyze security data at scale. The SOP provides rapid feature and capability development that evolves in line with rapidly changing security demands. The Arctic Wolf Security Operations Platform provides broad visibility across endpoint, network, and cloud. Processing over 2 trillion events per week, the platform enriches those events with threat intelligence and risk context to drive faster threat detection, simplify incident response, and eliminate alert fatigue. The Arctic Wolf difference centers on an innovative platform and concierge delivery model that enables them to provide better, more cost-effective protection. It is: A Cloud Native Platform that features a purpose-built security operations platform and predictable pricing. Delivered as a Service allowing you to establish or augment your SOC while receiving world-class expertise and security effectiveness. A Concierge Experience with named resources, personalized protection, and continuous progress towards your security endgoals. We?re driven by the belief that if we help businesses solve their IT issues so they can become more profitable and successful, then we will inherently grow along with them. Having good partnerships is a key piece of that and Arctic Wolf is one of the best partners you could have! At Info Advantage, our team of experts can become your outsourced IT department. Responding to issues quickly, often before you even know about them; we provide end-to-end solutions for all of your technology needs! Make sure you reserve your spot today, head over to the event registration page now and make sure to contact us with any questions you have about the event, our friends at Arctic Wolf, or how Info Advantage can help ensure that your business is secure!