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If you’ve purchased a new laptop recently (or if you’re in the market) you may be wondering what to do with the fresh new start you now have on your hands.

However, there is the matter of your old laptop before you do anything with your new one, before you send it to e-waste or hand it off to the next person you want to make sure any files you’ll need now or in the future have been taken off of it and stored either directly onto your new device, into cloud storage, or even onto a portable hard drive.

In today's digital age, businesses face an ever-increasing number of cyber threats. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, the need for robust and proactive security measures has never been greater. One of the most effective strategies for safeguarding business assets and sensitive information is continuous monitoring.

The worst backup situation to have as a business owner is no backups at all, so if you’ve made keeping backups of your data a priority in your business, we want to encourage you to keep the effort up. Having data backups is crucial for making a full recovery in the event of device failure, cyber security breaches and more.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) continues to try and proliferate the space in which we live, from innovations aimed at simplifying our work activities and increasing productivity, to enhancements to our devices that will make using AI in our homes more accessible.

Explaining cyber security in 2024 means navigating all sorts of buzz words – cybersecurity awareness, data breach, ransomware and malware, endpoint security, threat detection, two-factor and multi-factor authentication, and yes zero trust just to name a very small portion of them.

As a Microsoft partner we have to be honest, we don’t usually recommend Apple products to our clients. For us as an IT service provider the more cohesive a client’s hardware stack is the easier it is for us to recommend a concentric approach to your services.

Data backups are a big part of our service offering here at Valley Techlogic (learn more here) and we believe backing up your data is one of the easiest preventative option for a host of technology related headaches – including device failure, cyber breaches, accidental deletions and more.

Frontier, a leading internet provider that’s coverage area includes millions of customers across the United States, suffered a cyber security breach last week that forced them to shut down some systems to prevent further damage.
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Has your business grown to the point you’re now looking to improve the IT solutions you have available, including possibly adding additional staff? Or maybe you’re currently the go-to person for providing technical support for your users (we see this a lot) and you’re realizing you need additional help to ensure things continue to run smoothly.

Email deliverability can be tricky to guarantee, and now with recent changes to Google and Yahoo’s DMARC policies getting your emails delivered to your customers and prospects may be even more difficult.

First, we should start out by explaining what DMARC is, DMARC or Domain Based Message Authentication is the process that checks to make sure the email that’s being sent is being sent from the domain it’s proclaiming to be.