How Ransomware Works in 2023 and Some Common Examples

What is Ransomware and How Does it Work? If you own a business and follow the news at all, you’ve probably been aware of stories of businesses of all sizes becoming targets of ransomware attacks in the last few years. The uptick in ransomware attacks is alarming. And while you hear about the biggest ones that happen to companies and entities like the country of Costa Rica or Toyota, what you don’t hear about are the other 1.7 million estimated ransomware attacks that happen each day.

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7 Ransomware Examples That Made Headlines in 2022 (Or Should Have!)

7 Examples of Ransomware Attacks in 2022 You May Not Have Heard About Whether or not you’ve heard the term “ransomware” you’ve definitely heard of its effects, since malware attacks have been on the rise in the last few years and are constantly in the news. In this blog, we’ll be talking about what ransomware is and how it works, who hackers tend to target, and share about some of the craziest ransomware attacks from 2022.

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7 Reasons You Might Want to Outsource Your IT

When Should You Consider Outsourcing Your IT Needs? As businesses grow, they inevitably reach a point when they need to consider outsourcing IT. Eventually, it no longer works to call up your younger sister, who is really good at computers, or call in yet another favor with your buddy who helped you set up your router. Or maybe your business has in-house IT, but there are reasons why that’s breaking down.

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Why Use On-Site Storage When You Have Cloud Backup Storage?

Secondary Storage Devices Have Advantages that the Cloud Does Not If you’re in the position of making decisions about how to store data and data backup in a business, this article is for you. Many small business owners know that backing up their data is important, but the next steps can be unclear. In this blog article, we talk about the benefits of secondary storage and detail the problems you could run into if you don’t have it. Then, we’ll share three types of secondary storage so if you don’t have your data stored already on secondary storage, you can gain an idea of what’s best for your business.

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5 Types of IT Services That Managed Service Providers Typically Provide

What Services Do Managed Service Providers (MSPs) Actually Offer? If you own or operate a business, chances are you either have IT staff on your team or work with an IT service provider to meet your business’s IT needs. But you may be piecing together those services from a few providers, which is fairly common and unnecessarily complicated. If so, ABQ-IT wants to present you with a better way to address all the types of managed services you’re paying for. But before we get there, let’s talk about what offerings a managed service provider has and the different places you might be accessing those services.

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