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Every tax season, businesses trust their accountants and tax preparers with their most sensitive financial information. From employee Social Security numbers to company revenue reports, this data is highly valuable—and highly targeted by cybercriminals. But how secure is your CPA’s system? Are they following cybersecurity best practices to keep your business safe? Many business owners…
Tech Warnings: 2020 Cybersecurity Predictions and Advice
Tech Tips from CoopSys – Episode 8: 2020 Cybersecurity and Tech Warnings What better time than the start of the new year to reflect on what we have seen and learned over the course of the previous year! In our latest episode of Tech Tips from CoopSys we review some major 2019 cybersecurity developments and…
Speed Up Your WiFi: 3 Ways To Improve Your Business WiFi
When you’re trying to figure out how to speed up your WiFi, we always suggest starting with this oh-so-timeless IT advice:Try turning it off, waiting 10 seconds or so, and then turning it back on again. Believe it or not, this simple reboot is often enough to considerably improve WiFi speeds. Reboots don’t need to…
2020 Best Places To Work in Connecticut: Cooperative Systems Honored
Cooperative Systems has been named among the Best Places to Work in Connecticut. This fifteenth annual program was created by the Hartford Business Journal and Best Companies Group. Prior to this year Cooperative Systems appeared on the list of Best Places to Work in Connecticut in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and last year, 2019.…
Prepare For 2020 Cybersecurity Cold War
One of the leading providers of cybersecurity solutions worldwide, Check Point Software Technologies, released what they think is a 2020 cybersecurity cold war brewing and what that might involve. What they came up with is a shortlist of the possible major cybersecurity events and developments they anticipate will have a serious impact on businesses and…
Which Mobile Payment App or Method Should You Use: The Best Payment Apps of 2019
You carry your smartphone with you everywhere you go. Cashless payments are becoming part of our everyday spending habits. We pay bills online, and we carry credit and debit cards as our primary method of payment on-the-go. It’s no surprise that a mobile payment app (or multiple!) would become a regular part of our day-to-day…
Top 3 Holiday Cyber Safety Tips
Read this before you do any more shopping this season! This year we encourage you, more than ever, to commit to holiday cyber safety. We’ve put together a shortlist of tips to serve as your guide. Be prepared to combat common scams out there so you can keep yourself, your business, and your family safe…
Buying A Laptop: 5 Important Things To Consider Before You Buy A Laptop
Business owners and IT managers come to us all the time before buying a laptop to find out what we would recommend for their team. As with many technology decisions, the answer is not the same for every person and it is different for every business! There are a number of factors to take into…
Ransomware Survival Guide: How To Survive Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware holds its spot at the top of the list of malware threats year after year for good reason: It is a highly profitable and effective attack vector for cyber criminals. In order to figure out how to survive these attacks, businesses absolutely need to have a strategy and plan ahead of encountering ransomware scenarios.…
Top 4 Risks You Face If You Don’t Upgrade to Windows 10
When you don’t upgrade to Windows 10, you’re leaving your machine and your entire network open to a variety of critical vulnerabilities. As we have addressed over the past year, Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows 7 after January 2020, and even Windows 8 users are outside of mainstream support at this point. What…
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2019: 10 Tips for Cyber Safety
Tech Tips from CoopSys – Episode 6: 10 Tips for Cyber Safety In this episode of Tech Tips from CoopSys we walk through our 10 tips for cyber safety list, which offers some simple tactics to help members of the online community to better protect themselves. People in the US spend as many as 12…
How To Decide When To Upgrade Your Technology
When is the right time to upgrade your technology? How do you decide what to upgrade and how do you upgrade it? Are you getting the most value out of your current IT? How do you figure out what technology to upgrade in order to maximize ROI on your investments? You can start by asking…
Why Modern Workplaces Use Office 365
When you think about the current state of workplaces you know versus what you have seen in the past, it is not hard to make some guesses about why modern workplaces use Office365. As we have explained in previous posts we do not always recommend the cloud for all businesses; however, there are some really…