Photo by Mikhail Nilov / Pexels Most small firms I talk to believe they already have confidentiality handled. Nobody discusses clients outside the office, the computers have passwords, and the email is encrypted. That is …
Most Rhode Island business owners learn that this state has a breach notification law on the worst possible day, in the middle of an incident, from somebody who is not happy with them. So here …
A Providence owner with 15 employees gets two quotes for managed IT. One is $900 a month. The other, from a firm up in Boston, is $2,400. Same headcount, same laptops, same email. The first …
Almost every owner I talk to has a storm plan. They know who calls who, they know when they would close, they know which employees can get in and which ones cannot. Then the conversation …
When a Newport restaurant, hotel, or marina asks me whether they can shrink their IT spend once the season ends, the honest answer is: partly. The costs that track headcount should track headcount. The foundation …
Every managed IT provider in Rhode Island says the same thing on its homepage: we're local. It is the easiest claim in the industry to make and the hardest one to cash. A ZIP code …
In most small manufacturing shops I walk into for the first time, the office side is in reasonable shape. Modern enough computers, a real firewall, someone gave it thought at some point. The shop floor …
Non-profits get compromised more often than for-profit businesses of the same size and roughly the same budget. The usual explanation is money: non-profits spend less on IT, so they are less protected. That is part …
Most accounting firms think hard about their technology exactly once a year, in March, when a workstation dies mid-return or a file won't open the day before a deadline. By May it's background noise again. …
Most technology problems at construction companies come from one mistake: treating the field like an extension of the office. It isn’t. Weak cellular coverage, dust, heat, shared devices, crews moving between sites, and apps that …
September 28th, 2026
