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Mastering Your IT Onboarding… and Yes, Offboarding Too

Mastering Your IT Onboarding… and Yes, Offboarding Too

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • August 11, 2025
  • Business

Picture your team for a moment and consider the experience a new hire might have during their first hours on the job. How effective are they at accomplishing tasks, or is their time spent jumping through hoops and getting set up with their technology? Similarly, what does one of your team members’ last days look like? Amicable or not, a...

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3 Reasons Why You Need Version Control

3 Reasons Why You Need Version Control

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • August 8, 2025
  • IT Blog

How many times have you accidentally made changes to a file, only to wish that you didn’t? Maybe you accidentally overwrote an important document, or someone made unapproved edits to an important company document. In all of these cases, version control—being able to see the different iterations of a file—is critically important. Here’s why you need a solution in place...

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How CIOs Have Flip-Flopped on 3 Key IT Innovations

How CIOs Have Flip-Flopped on 3 Key IT Innovations

The Chief Information Officer of a business has the primary responsibility of managing the organization’s technology, which in turn places a lot of stress on them as an individual. They implement strategies to help the business thrive, but they also take the blame for when those initiatives fail. They might even be tempted to say “yes” to requests even when...

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You Need to Be Careful About Where You Find Your Security Advice

You Need to Be Careful About Where You Find Your Security Advice

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • August 4, 2025
  • Security

It can be challenging to find reliable IT advice nowadays, particularly when it comes to cybersecurity. Between coworkers with the best intentions and the online influencers selling their guides and platforms, there’s a lot of advice out there. Unfortunately, a lot of it is outdated or incorrect. This can be actively dangerous where your business’ security is concerned. Let’s address...

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How People are Hacking AI

How People are Hacking AI

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • August 1, 2025
  • Security

From the chatbots you interact with to the tools helping you draft emails or analyze data, AI is everywhere. It’s an amazing tool that can help you boost efficiency and completely realign everything you do. Here’s something crucial you might not have on your radar: prompt hacking. This isn't some far-fetched tech nightmare; it's a real and present danger. Prompt...

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Why (And How) You Should Properly Shut Down Your Computer

Why (And How) You Should Properly Shut Down Your Computer

Are you one of those people who just locks their computer and goes home at the end of the day? Doing so ignores an important element of owning a computer, which is powering it down fully from time to time. Performing a full shutdown can help you avoid some common computer problems that will drag you down throughout the workday....

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Cybersecurity Scam Artists Aren’t Always Super Technical

Cybersecurity Scam Artists Aren’t Always Super Technical

Cybersecurity covers a broad range of risks and threats. You’ve got the basics like your computer viruses and malware, to the business-crippling ransomware and data breaches. You have threats that cause stress and downtime, and others that steal information and money, and others still that don’t even have clear understandable objectives. The point is, cybersecurity isn’t simple, but sometimes the threat...

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AI is Great for Employees of All Kinds

AI is Great for Employees of All Kinds

AI has become one of the spiciest topics in business, and with it being more accessible than ever, many people are asking, “What can I do with this new tech?” AI can be leveraged in many ways, and businesses can make excellent use of it to reduce their expenses. However, businesses aren’t the only ones looking to take advantage of...

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Conquering Business Challenges

Conquering Business Challenges

Adversity is pervasive throughout business. Every administrator, manager, and employee deals with some form of adversity during the course of business. Overcoming these problematic scenarios is key to keeping operations running efficiently and creating the environment to keep adversity at bay. Let’s look at some of the strategies it takes to rise up against the adversity you may (and probably...

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Vendor Management Doesn’t Have to Be Hard (Or Frustrating)

Vendor Management Doesn’t Have to Be Hard (Or Frustrating)

How many vendors does your small business work with on a daily basis? Chances are, it’s quite a few, and managing them all can be exhausting. You don’t have time for it, and we get that, so why don’t you let us lighten the load with our vendor management services? (more…)

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