Business Insights

Microsoft 365 comes with a suite of productivity tools that seamlessly integrate with one another, allowing organizations to manage their workflow, communications, and storage all in one place. Microsoft Planner is Microsoft’s task management tool that makes it easy for teams to collaborate and organize their work visually.

Internal communications can be a headache—we’ve all received emails that were longer than they needed to be, and many of us have probably sent long emails that never got read. But there’s a better way: start sending short videos instead of long emails with a tool like Microsoft Stream. 

TechMD is proud to announce that we are now certified as operating under the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 19, based on the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Critical Security Controls. We are one of the first Managed Service Providers in Southern California to have received this certification.

On today’s Tech Talk, we’ll be discussing business intelligence (or BI for short), which is a process for discovering trends or patterns in your data and then presenting them in a visually-engaging way. Seeing your data fully visualized helps you understand what’s happening across your organization and helps informs your decision-making.

Microsoft has announced that Hafnium, a Chinese-backed cybercriminal organization, has been taking advantage of four zero-day exploits to attack on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers. We strongly recommend that any organizations with on-premises Exchange servers, including hybrid Office 365 setups, should apply Microsoft’s patch immediately.

Cybersecurity has become an even hotter topic over the last 12 months as businesses have accelerated their plans to operate in virtual and remote environments. Despite the growth of sophisticated techniques used by cyber criminals, we know that 98% of data breaches can be prevented by implementing the Center for Internet Security’s Top 20 Critical Security Controls correctly.

Ransomware has long been a real threat with real risks to businesses of all sizes, but hacking techniques are evolving and ransom payments are going up. In a new trend, cybercriminals are directly targeting the computers of top executives at small and mid-sized companies. Here are a few simple steps that every executive can take right now to protect themselves from cybercriminals.

2020 was an unprecedented year, and businesses with inflexible IT solutions had a rough time during the pandemic. And with continuing uncertainty, most organizations we talk to are trying to avoid getting surprised by sudden IT issues and costs over the upcoming year. Here are three key priorities to make sure your business isn’t caught off guard by IT in 2021.

Reuters reported over the weekend that foreign state-backed hackers have breached Microsoft 365 accounts at the US Treasury Department, using their access to secretly monitor email accounts at the US Treasury. Aside from implementing Microsoft’s recommendations for securing Microsoft 365 accounts, here are 3 additional tips to help protect personal and business accounts from cybercriminals.

In the modern workforce, managing passwords is tough. Most employees manage 85 different passwords, and this presents a significant cybersecurity risk for businesses while also harming productivity and user experience. One of the best solutions to this security/productivity dilemma is called Single Sign-On (SSO).

We are proud to announce that Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has named TechMD to its list of best managed IT service providers of 2020!

TechMD’s Security Maturity Level Assessment (SMLA) follows the nationally-recognized NIST Cybersecurity Framework and helps your business understand where your cybersecurity is today, where it needs to be, and how to get to there.

Most business leaders know how important cybersecurity is for their organization. On today’s Tech Talk, we discuss how the nationally-recognized NIST Cybersecurity Framework can help any organization understand where they are in terms of cybersecurity, where they should be, and how to get there.

Communication and collaboration are imperative for the success of any organization. That’s why today, we’re going to introduce Microsoft Teams, a robust communications platform that enables you to have chats, meetings, calls, and so much more all in one place.

Microsoft 365 is filled with a variety of features that benefit businesses and the technologies they use, both in security and collaboration. In this Tech Talk, we’ll review five top features in Microsoft 365 you need to know about to secure your business from today’s threats and boost productivity.

The coronavirus pandemic has drastically accelerated the pace of cloud adoption, as organizations nationwide were forced to migrate to a fully remote workforce in a matter of days. Even as many organizations return to the office, remote work and cloud infrastructure is here to stay. Here are our top 5 cloud trends for small and medium businesses.