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Does Your Company Actually Need an MSP?

    Are you confident in your team’s ability to manage technology effectively, or could a trusted partner help your business succeed? In this video, IMS CEO, Brandon Myers, explores how partnering with an MSP...

How to Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks: A Nonprofit Guide

How to Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks: A Nonprofit Guide

Nonprofits are frequent targets for cyberattacks due to limited resources and reliance on sensitive donor and organizational data. Without a dedicated IT staff or sufficient budgets, many organizations struggle to implement effective security measures, leaving them...

The Impact of Security Awareness Training: Key Statistics

The Impact of Security Awareness Training: Key Statistics

As cyberattacks become more frequent and advanced, businesses face a growing threat of breaches, data loss, and operational disruptions. One of the most effective strategies to combat these risks is Security Awareness Training (SAT). By educating employees on how to...

Managed IT Services: 10 Benefits of Outsourcing Your IT

Managed IT Services: 10 Benefits of Outsourcing Your IT

Leveraging managed IT services by outsourcing IT functions has become a strategic move for businesses aiming to streamline operations and reduce costs. By partnering with managed service providers (MSPs), companies can access specialized expertise and advanced...

How to Optimize Your Network Services for Remote Work

How to Optimize Your Network Services for Remote Work

Remote work has gained massive popularity since the Covid pandemic. And even though it has created lots of conveniences, it has also presented numerous challenges. Primarily in sustaining fast and safe network performance. Optimizing your network services is...

How to Sidestep IT Strategy Mistakes in BDR Planning

How to Sidestep IT Strategy Mistakes in BDR Planning

Many organizations make dangerous assumptions about the ability of their IT systems to protect themselves from disasters. This creates a false sense of security that leaves operations vulnerable so that even a small disaster can cause enormous disruption. In this...

How Security Awareness Training Helps Employees Identify Attacks

How Security Awareness Training Helps Employees Identify Attacks

The internet is an exciting and opportunity-driven place to explore. However, where there’s value, there are also threats. With the rise of phishing, cyber threats are prevalent and on the rise. This makes getting educated, aware, and alert on the matter imperative...

Insider Threats Demystified: Your Microsoft Copilot Cheat Sheet

Insider Threats Demystified: Your Microsoft Copilot Cheat Sheet

Are you ready to proactively address insider threats? In an earlier blog, we spoke at length about the Top 5 Database Security Threats to watch out for. Now, we’ll dive deeper into insider threat awareness with our Microsoft Copilot cheat sheet. It’s your one-stop...

Ensuring Cloud Security and Compliance in the Azure Environment

Ensuring Cloud Security and Compliance in the Azure Environment

The cloud has revolutionized how businesses operate. According to experts, 60% of the world’s corporate data is stored in the cloud. As more and more companies migrate to cloud platforms, the significance of cloud security cannot be overstated.  Azure, for example,...

The Top 5 Database Security Threats and How to Mitigate Them

The Top 5 Database Security Threats and How to Mitigate Them

Your data is the lifeblood of your business. From customer details to financial records, it's all stored neatly in your database. But just like Fort Knox has security measures, so should your database! But what happens if Fort Knox, or rather, your database, gets...

Azure Simplified: A Cloud Computing Guide for SMBs

Azure Simplified: A Cloud Computing Guide for SMBs

Have you ever felt like your IT infrastructure is holding your business back? Maybe you're struggling with outdated hardware, limited storage space, or the constant need to manage complex systems. If so, you're not alone. Many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)...

No Phishing Allowed: A Checklist for Smart Interactions

No Phishing Allowed: A Checklist for Smart Interactions

The ever-present hum of emails, texts, and online notifications can lull us into a false sense of security. We navigate this digital landscape with trust, clicking links and opening attachments, often without a second thought. But lurking beneath the surface, a...

Unlock a Network Symphony: The Power of NaaS Integration

Unlock a Network Symphony: The Power of NaaS Integration

Imagine a grand orchestra, each instrument playing its part in perfect harmony to create a mesmerizing performance. But what if one instrument is out of tune, lagging behind the tempo, or simply not playing the right notes? The entire symphony suffers. In the digital...

Empowering Your Remote Workforce with NaaS in 2024

Empowering Your Remote Workforce with NaaS in 2024

The remote work revolution is in full swing. Is your business getting left behind? Gone are the days of water cooler gossip and corner office bragging rights. Now, laptops rule the roost, pajamas conquer commutes, and productivity thrives (sometimes) within the walls...

Choosing Your AI Ally: Microsoft Copilot vs. ChatGPT

Choosing Your AI Ally: Microsoft Copilot vs. ChatGPT

Tired of repetitive tasks taking over your workday? Feeling like your creative well has run dry? Enter the world of AI assistants, where digital sidekicks promise to boost productivity and ignite your inner innovator.  But with two big players, Microsoft Copilot and...

Optimize Your MS365 Licensing Strategy

Optimize Your MS365 Licensing Strategy

The tools you choose for your business operations play a crucial role in your organization's success. With over 1 million companies using it worldwide, it’s easy to see why Microsoft 365 stands head and shoulders above the crowd.  It’s truly a comprehensive suite that...

The Hidden Costs of Unused Network Resources

The Hidden Costs of Unused Network Resources

Are you overpaying for network resources? In today's tech-driven world, you might rely on a wide range of network resources to stay ahead of the curve. While it is important to stay on the cutting edge of technology, some of these resources may be silently draining...

Your Invisible Adversary: Undetected Network Breaches

Your Invisible Adversary: Undetected Network Breaches

Network security breaches are a constant and evolving threat to businesses of all sizes. While high-profile data breaches often make headlines, there's an invisible, insidious side to this problem that often goes unnoticed - undetected intrusions.  You may not realize...

Transform Your Business with Managed IT Services

Transform Your Business with Managed IT Services

In today's technology-driven world, businesses across industries rely even more on managed IT services to thrive and stay ahead of the competition. Managed IT services are revolutionizing organizations' operations from financial services to manufacturing by providing...

What Is a Cyber Risk Assessment?

What Is a Cyber Risk Assessment?

Cyber risks pose a significant threat to organizations of all sizes and industries. With cyber-attacks becoming increasingly common and sophisticated, organizations need to take proactive measures to mitigate these risks. A cyber risk assessment is one of the most...

The Importance of Least Privilege in IT Security

The Importance of Least Privilege in IT Security

The Importance of Least Privilege in IT Security Safeguarding sensitive data and protecting critical systems are paramount. One crucial practice that organizations must adopt is the principle of least privilege. By granting users only the minimum access necessary for...

What Does “Moving to the Cloud” Really Mean?

What Does “Moving to the Cloud” Really Mean?

In the technology world, what does “moving to the cloud” really mean? Moving to the cloud refers to the process of shifting a company’s data and applications from on-site servers and physical hardware that you can see and touch to remote servers and virtualized...

IMS helps BPO American launch Windows 365 Cloud PCs

IMS helps BPO American launch Windows 365 Cloud PCs

BPO American answers the call for a highly secure, easy to deploy Windows experience with Windows 365 Cloud PCs   When a customer calls BPO American, starts a web chat, or initiates an email conversation, they’re instantly connected to one of 215 US-based agents....

The new king of content is your password

The new king of content is your password

Working in the United States, when the FBI makes a security recommendation, you probably pay attention. Since February of 2020, the FBI has touted password phrases (aka passphrase) over passwords as more secure. Using long-formed phrases (aka content king) keeps...

3 ways we’re [looking at] using AI and ChatGPT

3 ways we’re [looking at] using AI and ChatGPT

The ‘Christmas Present of the Year (2022)’ goes to OpenAI for ChatGPT! If you haven’t heard of this AI utility yet, you either aren’t reading the news or social media – I may even go as far as suggesting, you are purposely existing inside a vacuum. Riding the...

Boost operations and save money using Microsoft Business Premium

IAM ready to secure my business (basics)

Identity and Access Management (IAM), made popular through Microsoft security recommendations and expertise creating TLAs (three letter acronyms), allows a business to deliberately control their users’ digital identities and the privileges those identities have to...

Farewell basic authentication

Farewell basic authentication

Starting on October 1st, 2022, Microsoft will be removing the ability to connect into Office 365 using legacy authentication methods. This affects the native mail application on both iPhone and Android, as well as several other connection methods like printers,...

Continuous feedback for continuous improvement

Continuous feedback for continuous improvement

IMS provides a variety of technology services to over two hundred (at the time of writing) businesses on the eastern sea board. From cloud services, to network-as-a-service, to help desk, and business continuity – we cover a large swath of technology needs for...

Satya Nadella gives props to IMS for Windows 365 deployment

Satya Nadella gives props to IMS for Windows 365 deployment

There are certain accomplishments in a [technology] business that aren't instigated by sales figures, distribution, saturation, or a slew of other qualifiers. When the CEO of global leading technology company gives you praise in-front of tens of thousands of...

Boost operations and save money using Microsoft Business Premium

How to crush the Microsoft price-change curveball

Over the last few months, Microsoft made a series of announcements that will impact all users of Microsoft 365. The easiest of these to understand (and prepare for) is the price increase. Microsoft hasn’t increased their pricing for the Office Suite applications in a...

Satya Nadella gives props to IMS for Windows 365 deployment

IMS launches managed Wi-Fi service for MDU space

IMS' service for multi-dwelling/family apartments and condominiums centralizes acquisition, distribution, and management of all owners, guests, and tenants wireless internet connectivity. Wi-Fi is an integral feature for apartment complexes, condominiums, and other...

How Managed Services Can Help Your Industry

How Managed Services Can Help Your Industry

Our industry-specific IT solutions keep your business a step ahead of the game by fostering increased productivity, better time management, and improved quality of work. We know how tough it is to get the right IT services but it shouldn’t be. Other IT companies...

How Managed Services Can Help Your Industry

3 IT Management Pains and How to Solve Them

Filling the role of IT Manager can be a major pain. Today’s IT leaders are expected to accomplish more while working with less, plus their IT team must juggle keeping an entire business’s daily operations afloat while accomplishing the strategic initiatives that...

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