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All businesses need proper network protection against all types of cyberattacks, and there are many ways to do so.

Without protection, businesses are leaving their network open to attack, which can cost thousands of dollars and can even shut a business down.

Here are some easy and effective ways to protect your businesses network from cyberattacks:

1. Password protect everything: Passwords are a simple way of safeguarding a business network. Put passwords on everything from routers to Wi-Fi. Anything connected to the internet is vulnerable to cyberattacks.
2. Install anti-virus and antispyware software: Make sure all PCs use an anti-virus software and, if using Windows, adding anti-spyware protection doesn’t hurt. And make sure they’re all up-to-date. Having a system that blocks cyberthreats is essential for protecting your business’ network.
3. Do regular scans and backups: Scan regularly for viruses and other malware, and backup all business data often to ensure you never lose your data, no matter what happens. This can mean the difference between total data corruption and data retention and safety.

With these simple and effective ways to protect your business network, you’re safeguarding against the most common and often detrimental cyberattacks.

Ensure even more protection with scalable, turnkey IntelliSecure managed security and unified threat management (UTM) services.

IntelliSecure keeps your network and data safe from desktop to cloud.

Protect your business’ most valuable asset — the information and data on your network — with IntelliSecure.

Contact IntelliSyn today to learn more about how IntelliSecure can protect your business network and data.

With all of the extreme weather and the subsequent destruction it causes happening in the U.S. recently, businesses of all sizes are inevitably having their data and files damaged or destroyed.

Extreme weather can’t be avoided, and often doesn’t give you much time to safeguard your business tech before it hits.

Being without power equals lost revenue for those that work online. That’s why it’s essential to keep your tech safe before extreme weather hits with these easy and time-effective steps:

• Take pictures: Take photos of all tech equipment in case there is the need to claim any damaged or destroyed property for insurance purposes. Businesses tend to forget how valuable equipment is, and taking pictures will ensure all property is documented and able to be compensated for if extreme weather is detrimental.
• Back everything up: Back up all business data and files on the cloud to ensure no data or file loss during extreme weather if equipment is compromised. This ensures future access of the data you’ve backed up.
• Update voicemail: Set a new voicemail message to make callers, clients, and customers aware of your business’ situation during extreme weather. This will explain your situation instead of leaving callers confused and uninformed.
• Charge batteries: Always charge your tech batteries to ensure the longest possible life of your devices in case of extreme weather. Charged batteries will help immensely.

Protect your business data and files during extreme weather with these simple, effective precautionary steps that all businesses can benefit from.

Contact IntelliSyn today to learn more about how to protect your business tech from extreme weather.

Cyberattacks are a constant concern for business of all sizes, especially small businesses as they often don’t act after an attack occurs.

Only about half of small businesses say they have a clear cybersecurity strategy, and nearly two-thirds say they don’t act after an attack.

But why?

Small businesses tend to focus more of their time and energy on building up the business and developing products and services, as well as working with clients and employees, instead of worrying about cybersecurity.

With all focus on business operations and not cybersecurity, small businesses don’t have the time or resources to act after an attack happens.

Cyberattacks cost small businesses thousands of dollars or more if a ransomware attack happens, and can even shut down operations.

How can your small business prevent cyberattacks in the first place and avoid having to act at all?

By going with a Managed Service Provider (MSP) that has you covered. Your organization’s most valuable asset — the information and data on your network — should always be protected from the legions of cybercriminals bent on infiltrating and corrupting business systems.

With IntelliSyn, you get information security systems tailored to your unique business environment and designed to protect your desktop-to-cloud network 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Our desktop-to-cloud solutions are engineered to protect your network and data from the prying eyes and malicious intent of cybercriminals, the competition, and even disgruntled ex-employees with firewalls, content filtering, anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware, data encryption, data management, and intrusion prevention.

Contact IntelliSyn today to learn more about protecting your small business against cyberattacks.

With so many phone systems out there, it’s difficult to know which functionality features are ideal for your small business.

While many phone systems have similar features, look for a phone system that does the following:

• Transfers calls easily: Ensure the phone system you choose is able to transfer calls easily from phone to phone, as it will not only save time but ensure a professionalism that slow, ineffective call pass offs will not.
• Connects your cellphone to your work phone: Get a phone system that enables cellphone-to-work phone bridging, allowing you to use your work phone and all its features through your cellphone when you’re out of the office. All calls will then display to the caller as your work number, not your cellphone number.
• Reduces downtime: VoIP telephone systems allow users to stay connected during power outages and other unforeseen disasters when typical landline phones go down. Get a VoIP phone system to keep your business up and running at all times.
• Saves you money: Overall rates for VoIP phone systems are less costly than landline phone systems, enabling you to save money and put it into your business instead.
• Upgrades seamlessly: Make sure the phone system you choose is future-upgradable as technology evolves, allowing you to keep it as your business grows instead of having to replace it continuously.

Traditional voice-based business systems are no longer the most efficient and cost-effective option for daily business communications.

IntelliTalk is a unified communications and collaboration solution for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and medium to large enterprises. It replaces costly phone lines, switches, and cabling with an easy-to-use internet telephony service. And it provides all the call functionality of traditional voice systems at half the cost.

Contact IntelliSyn today to learn more about how IntelliTalk can benefit your small business.

AI is all around us, especially in business. And while AI is perceived to be used only by tech giants, small businesses can integrate AI into everyday operations in simple and beneficial ways that can improve workflows.

Integrate AI into your day-to-day business operations:

1. Intelligent CRMs: Customer Relationship Management compiles information about customers by email, phone, social media, etc. and provides this info to sales to manage current and potential customers and automate lead generation and marketing. Small businesses can embed AI into CRMs that analyzes customer phone conversations, emails, social media posts, reviews, and feedback. It then adjusts marketing tactics to suit the new findings, allowing small businesses to better understand what customers want and become more efficient in retaining and attracting new customers.
2. Intelligent customer service solutions: AI also improves how customer service is executed through different forms of communication that speed and deliver the help customers need faster and more efficiently. Small businesses then can reduce the time spent reaching the ultimate customer goal.
3. Marketing: AI analyzes advertising performance and marketing operations across multiple channels. Small businesses can use AI in their marketing to analyze what they are doing wrong to change it, and what they are doing right to keep it.
4. Competitive intelligence: AI can also analyze competitors to see what their strengths and weaknesses are, enabling your business to use that information to improve its competitive strategy.
5. AI-ready solutions: A lot of AI comes in the form of pluggable tools that work as an add on to any type of workflow involving data. AI-ready solutions can simplify and analyze small business data and turn it into useful insights that are a major benefit to your business.

Contact IntelliSyn today to learn more about the benefits of integrating AI into your business.

Small businesses are perceived by cyberattackers as easy to attack, making them highly targeted and at risk of malicious ransomware and other cyberthreats.

But why are small businesses seen as easy to attack?

It’s because small business owners will pay ransom as they often see it as the best way out, have valuable data, and often lack adequate cybersecurity.

Here’s how to reduce a small business’ attractiveness to cybercriminals:

Conduct a thorough digital risk assessment: Learn of the potential losses, threats, and vulnerabilities your small business faces.

The most common cyberattacks come from disgruntled employees or mistakes made by workers within the company.

Small businesses that manage risks are on the right track, but it’s important to have IT security experts tackle all possible angles that many small business owners don’t know about.

If your network isn’t protected by the latest security technologies, you’re leaving your business wide open for attack. Eliminate the risk with scalable, turnkey IntelliSecure managed security and unified threat management (UTM) services.

IntelliSyn’s complete IntelliSecure security services are tailored to your unique business environment. They allow you to take advantage of the latest technologies and industry standards without the associated infrastructure, management, and support costs.

Contact IntelliSyn today to learn more on how to protect your small business from the ever-present threat of cyberattacks.

Tech at work brings many benefits, especially in terms of productivity.

One of the main ones that many busy professionals use is music. Whether to drown out the world around them or simply for fun, music has its advantages in the workplace.

Here are three ways music at work increases productivity:

1. Improves your mood: Having music playing while working gives you a boost of energy and puts you in a good mood, which helps you stay productive.
2. Makes you feel calm: Listening to music lowers your perception of tension. Even with energetic music, which raises your heart rate, music has a calming effect. A calm attitude is far more productive than a tense one.
3. Helps you focus: Music can help you focus, especially when used to drown out background noise at work. Listening to music can also increase dopamine levels in your brain, which helps you stay productive and focused.

Stay productive at work by taking advantage of the many benefits listening to music at work has to offer.

Contact IntelliSyn to discover more ways to increase productivity at work with integrated desktop-to-cloud business communication solutions.

Technology keeps our world running, whether through personal tech like smartphones and laptops or at work with computers and devices designed to keep us connected.

Many integrate personal and work technology by using smartphones and other portable devices at work.

While this saves resources and is often preferable for professionals on the go, there are stipulations that must be taken into account before personal devices are safe for the office.

The main problem with bringing your own device to work is security.

With many employees using many devices, security standards are difficult to meet and is especially risky for businesses that need to adhere to specific security measures. There is also the danger of sensitive data being exposed if personal devices fall into the wrong hands.

In most cases, the best solution for small businesses is to ensure networks remain secure against potential threats that can be introduced by personal devices.

Allow IntelliSyn to assure your network and employees’ devices remain secure with IntelliSecure. IntelliSecure managed security services keep your network and data safe from desktop to cloud.

With IntelliSecure you get:

• A complete, turnkey security solution
• Proactive security monitoring
• Secure, encrypted, remote administration
• Comprehensive support, including security patches and updates, as required

Contact IntelliSyn today to learn more about how IntelliSecure can keep your business and networks protected.

Open-concept offices are the trend these days, allowing employees to work more efficiently and collaboratively.

But with the benefits come the negatives, including noise and space intrusion.

Here are some tech tools that will ease the difficulties associated with working in an open environment:

• Noise-canceling headphones: These are essential for anyone who works in the hustle and bustle of a busy, open office space. They allow employees to tune in and out of the environment around them, increasing productivity and allowing them to focus on their own work when needed.
• Portable devices: Portable devices are much less bulky and take up less space than the typical desktop staples. Plus, bringing in the devices you do need and leaving the ones you don’t frees up space that unused equipment would take up. And if escape is needed from the bustling open-concept office environment, portable devices are ideal to go back and forth from the office and home.
• Smart tech: Smart tech allows you to switch from one task to another quickly and seamlessly, comes with multiple ways to stay connected simultaneously (multiple USB ports, for example), and ultimately decreases tech troubleshooting, increasing work productivity in an open work atmosphere.

Benefit from these advantageous tech tools that help keep work productivity high and interruptions low.

Contact IntelliSyn to learn more about how you can increase work efficiency in an open office environment.

Using the cloud for data storage or transfer is becoming more and more common today.

And many worry that because it’s accessed through the internet it’s unsafe.

But be assured, the cloud is secure.

Through encryption, the cloud is made secure, whether in transit to or at rest in the cloud server. Cloud users can also choose to control their encryption keys and who can and can’t access their data and applications.

The way data is encrypted, by being split into chunks and separately encrypted and stored for maximum security, ensures data and application safety and security.

With a good cloud provider, your data and applications will be safe and secure from attackers and in disasters.

IntelliSyn offers desktop-to-cloud design and deployment of public, private, or hybrid cloud networks. All our cloud networking solutions are backed by complete network administration, maintenance, and reporting that simplifies network, data, and application management. And, our cloud networking solutions are designed to ensure all your business data is accessible by employees, partners, suppliers, and customers whenever they need it, from wherever they are.

Get the right balance of on-premises and virtual networks with our cloud networking solutions.

Contact IntelliSyn today for more information on storing your data on the cloud.