Delval Tech Blog

It has been said that we live in an era of infinite choice. From the foods you eat, the shows you watch, to  the goods you purchase, the possibilities are endless, and at times so is the confusion. Oftentimes our choice comes down to who is providing the service and where we are getting it from. Do we pick giant platforms backed up by industry titans like Hulu, Spotify and Whole Foods? Is supporting small businesses, such as buying from Etsy stores, watching independent films, and shopping at...

2020 and the Covid pandemic not only changed the way a lot of companies do business, but it also changed the way hackers attack those businesses. Last year, cyber attacks were up over 200 percent, and this trend shows no signs of letting up. More people are working from home, utilizing mostly unsecure home wifi networks to access their company clouds. While many of these attacks being used by attackers have been used in the past, their methods are getting more sophisticated. What follows are...

Over a full year after a monumental shift to work-from-home, a number of companies are heading toward a hybrid workplace where employees have the flexibility to rotate in and out of the office and access what they need through cloud services. One potential roadblock to a successful hybrid workplace model is the upfront investment in tools and systems that can support a blended workforce. In this blog, we’ll discuss a few of these investments in greater detail and why it’s so important to...

Paul runs a distribution company. They package, send, and deliver orders all over the area, and most of the transactions they deal with are electronic. Their servers are teeming with data from these transactions, including bank account and credit card numbers. Two weeks ago, Paul had to fire someone in the warehouse. The employee felt the need to get even, so he copied scores of credit card numbers that were in an unsecured folder on an office desktop. This compromised Paul’s entire operation...

The world of business changes at a pace that is unmatched. In the past year we have seen companies move from an office-based workflow to a work from home model. Software that used to have to be purchased yearly every time it updated has been replaced by subscription services. Onsite hardware to back up data has been replaced by the cloud. One thing that has not changed, however is the need for IT support. While many companies still employ the traditional IT guy or gal, others have found that...

I want you to imagine for a minute you are a salesman. You are in a zoom meeting with a potential client worth millions of dollars. You worked painstakingly on your presentation, dressed in your best suit, and practiced your pitch in the mirror till you were saying it in your sleep. The time for the meeting comes and just as you are getting in your groove, your screen freezes and you get bumped from your own meeting. This is at best embarrassing and can take you out of your groove. At worse,...

Remote work is a way of life for many businesses across the globe. The opportunity to see productivity and workforce satisfaction increase encouraged many employers to keep either partial or fully remote workforces. However, the drastic shift towards remote work left many companies with IT infrastructures that weren’t built to handle work from home security and business data privacy. According to the FBI, cybercrimes have increased by 300 percent since the beginning of the pandemic! This...

This past year we have heard a lot about ransomware, phishing attacks and other exploits by those in the hacker community. Solarwinds, Office 365 local governments and huge corporations such as Marriot being hit with ransomware, it has been a great year for cybercriminals but not so much for those who got attacked. Now you may be reading this and saying “Well, those all hit government agencies and giant corporations.”, and you would be right. However that doesn’t mean that your firm or...