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Information Security: Monitoring Automation

Information Security: Monitoring Automation

Threats today will regularly probe both your people and your software for vulnerabilities. Constant monitoring is a necessity to ensure the protection of your sensitive digital information.

Can I Outsource a CTO?

Can I Outsource a CTO?

Technology is central to your business performance, product development, and revenues. You need a leader to map out your strategy and implement it, but hiring a CIO can a huge step for a small business. It doesn’t have to be -- you can outsource. CIO-for-hire is a great option for a small business looking to get the leadership it needs to stay dialed into the always-evolving technology landscape.

Thinking BIG With Your Technology Strategy

Thinking BIG With Your Technology Strategy

These days, you need to prepare your business for digital transformation, integrating new technology, automating processes, and cyberattacks. A proactive technology strategy will help your business stay a step ahead. Just think of the possibilities for growth, security, and new opportunities. Think BIG!

Get Proactive: Cybersecurity Incident Response Planning

Get Proactive: Cybersecurity Incident Response Planning

Protecting information is protecting the survival of your business. A proactive cybersecurity incident response plan is key to your technology strategy and information security planning. So, what is a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan?

Software Updates And Your Technology Strategy

Software Updates And Your Technology Strategy

The most basic element to ensuring that your technology performs is keeping it up to date. Maintaining software updates keeps it secure, protects against threats, and ensures that it runs smoothly in order to keep up with your business’s growth.

Why Is Data Privacy Important: Protecting Your Customers' Data

Why Is Data Privacy Important: Protecting Your Customers' Data

Often, small business owners think they have nothing to hide, and neither do their own customers. So why is data privacy important for a small business?

Your Technology Strategy: What Is An ERP?

Your Technology Strategy: What Is An ERP?

The acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning can make many small business owners feel like an “Enterprise” solution is too big and complicated for their business. The truth is, an ERP can be an essential part of executing and automating their technology and business strategies. So, let’s start by answering that question.

Small Business Technology Planning: Cloud Migration

Small Business Technology Planning: Cloud Migration

What is “The Cloud,” anyway? Is it a fancy marketing term created by Microsoft or Google or Amazon? Simply put, the cloud is a data center that is accessed via the Internet. Read on to find out more about when and why to move your systems online.

Software Disclosure Requirements: CCPA and GDPR

Software Disclosure Requirements: CCPA and GDPR

Most small businesses were not too concerned with GDPR and compliance, as they were not doing business within Europe. However, California brought the data compliance game straight to the US. So, what will that mean for you and your business software?

Creating Your Company's Technology Strategy

Creating Your Company's Technology Strategy

One of the biggest mistakes we see is small businesses going forward without a good technology strategy. Developing your company’s technology strategy needs to be part of your overall business strategy. Find out how to avoid obstacles and vulnerabilities.

SaaS Security Best Practices For Small Business

SaaS Security Best Practices For Small Business

Securing data that resides in the cloud can be confusing, as there are myths around both sides of SaaS security -- that it’s more or less secure than software run on company servers. So, what are some SaaS security best practices for small businesses?

Cyber Resilience: Cybersecurity In Software Development

Cyber Resilience: Cybersecurity In Software Development

Cybersecurity in software development is vital to your business's cyber resilience plan. And it’s something that Sol Minion has made part of each custom software solution we develop and have been doing so for 20 years. Can you imagine investing in custom software then discovering it left your business vulnerable?