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Business leaders have no shortage of challenges to wade through these days; between the ongoing pandemic, the Great Resignation, and evolving cyber threats, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and even a little lost as to where to start. This is why we've...

Cybercriminals are more organized, disciplined, and persistent than ever. Compared to 2019, the FBI saw a 70% increase in reported attacks in 2020. This is not so surprising when you realize that cybercrime is a $1.5 trillion industry (more revenue than...

As we explored in our previous article, mergers and acquisitions are prevalent in the managed service provider (MSP) space. If your provider has recently been purchased, you might be feeling some anxiety about the transition – organizations like yours...

There is a lot of merger and acquisition activity in the IT outsourcing industry today, including plenty here in the in the DC area. While this isn’t necessarily a new trend – private equity firms have been busy in the IT space for several years now – it...

As vaccine distribution ramps up, a safe return to our offices will soon be possible. Based on all indications, however, almost none of us are going to have 100% of our teams in on office 5 days a week; now that we know working from home works, most...

In the three decades that we’ve been serving the technology and security needs for law firms, we have never seen such dramatic, rapid change as we did in 2020 when COVID-19 sent us all home. While the pandemic will (eventually) pass, many of the law...

  After a year of WFH, most business leaders have firmly established their stance on the practice. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter (and Square), told his employees in a May 2020 email that they could WFH forever. While Netflix employees remain WFH as a...

Before the pandemic, the number of daily Zoom users peaked at 10 million. That number has since exploded to over 300 million—and Zoom’s market value now surpasses the top seven airlines combined at nearly $50 billion. It’s no big surprise that...

A pandemic is a scammer's dream. We at Optimal Networks have been serving the IT and cybsersecurity needs of law firms and associations in the DC Metro area for nearly 3 decades, and we've never experienced a time like this before. As we all look out for...

As more organizations shift to teleworking in response to the coronavirus outbreak, many business leaders find themselves navigating brand new territory. Even if part of your workforce regularly works from home at least part of the time, having your...