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9/10/2024
Beyond the VPN
Universal ZTNA Is the Future of Secure Remote Access
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7/19/2024
Lessons from the CrowdStrike Incident
In the early morning of July 19th, 2024, CrowdStrike released a security content update that caused an estimated 8.5 million Windows-based workstations and servers to simultaneously bluescreen and shut down. Though the defective update hit less than 1% of Windows devices, the damaging effects rippled through several industries...
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4/25/2024
Savvy VMware Clients are Seamlessly Migrating to Citrix with Envision IT
How Envision IT (Envision) and Citrix are helping remove barriers and burden of a migration and why so many clients are making the move.
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2/01/2024
CEO Forecast: Cybercrime and AI
Every year InBuisiness Magazine gets insight from CEOs around the greater Madison area as they share their predictions for the upcoming year.
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10/27/2023
Citrix Virtual Apps Essentials End of Life
Citrix announced the discontinuation of its Virtual Apps Essentials offering with the complete shutdown of the service by May 31, 2024.
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10/01/2023
Cyber Security Awareness Month 2023: Secure Our World and Stay Safe Online
Discover the significance of Cyber Security Awareness Month 2023 and the 'Secure Our World' initiative. Learn how to stay safe online with four essential actions, from strong passwords to recognizing phishing attempts. As IT professionals, let's champion cybersecurity awareness and build a safer digital world together.
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9/08/2023
Building Hope with Habitat for Humanity
Envisioners spent the day working with Habitat for Humanity Dane County to lend a hand-up for families in our communities
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12/30/2022
LastPass Security Incident and Recommendations
LastPass sent out a communication to their customers indicating they had detected “unusual activity” within their environment. What actions you should take now depends on your situation.
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11/02/2022
Desktop as a Service: Compatibility
DaaS and its capabilities fill a need in the American workplace more than ever and it is not as complicated nor as expensive as it was once thought to be.
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10/27/2022
Desktop as a Service: Cost Savings
DaaS gives organizations extra automation and flexibility which in turn can lead to potential cost savings.
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10/26/2022
Strategic IT Partnering for Today's Cyber Threats
Every year we see an increase in cyber security incidents, but in the past few years we’ve seen these numbers increase exponentially. So the question is, how are organizations keeping up with cyber security?
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10/18/2022
Desktop as a Service: Scalability
Companies can rapidly spin up apps and desktops based on their specific business needs without having to add the cost of additional infrastructure.
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10/12/2022
Desktop as a Service: Management
Employees are working with devices that evolve over time. If your organization is exploring DaaS, you should consider its many benefits, including Management.
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10/03/2022
Desktop as a Service: Business Continuity
DaaS provides a simpler way to support disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
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9/23/2022
Desktop as a Service: Security
Data theft or destruction, ransomware attacks, hacking, phishing, and denial of service attacks are all threats that organizations are fighting against at any time. DaaS provides users with a secure access point and enhances data security.
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9/14/2022
Desktop as a Service: Flexibility
The nature of work is, to say the least, evolving. One of the primary lessons from the pandemic regarding worker attitudes is that people want more flexibility to work from anywhere on any device.
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9/01/2022
Diving into 7 Benefits of Desktop as a Service
Market forces and changing attitudes about the nature of work are driving organizations to look more closely at IT options that provide flexibility, security, and a host of other benefits designed to keep their enterprises competitive.
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7/01/2022
Preventing Cyberattacks Requires Vigilance
There are a variety of cyberattacks that can cause business disruption, but ransomware is still the most worrisome because these attacks increasingly occur at smaller business organizations.
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7/01/2022
Feeling the Burnout: How to Keep Your IT Staff Mentally Fresh
With the variety of malware, ransomware, and other cyberattacks coming at us left and right, the risk of information technology staff burnout is rising by the day.
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2/02/2022
Don’t Go IT Alone
For many organizations, it’s difficult to hire in-house cybersecurity experts or invest in their own enterprise-class security platforms.
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1/26/2022
Business Continuity
Organizations with Business Continuity Disaster Recovery solutions in place are less likely to experience significant downtime from ransomware.
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1/19/2022
Incident Response Plan
Just how prepared is your organization to respond to a cyber-attack? An incident response plan is a critical component to recovery readiness that requires collaboration between all critical business units.
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1/12/2022
Cyber Insurance
Is your organization financially able to withstand a cyber-attack? What if you had to shut down for a week or a month? What kind of financial impact would that have on your company? These are important questions to ask yourself as you weigh investing in cyber-security insurance.
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1/05/2022
Remote Connectivity
With the nature of work evolving (in-office, remote, hybrid, fractionalized, out-sourced, etc.) many companies now know that the need to manage and secure their networks must evolve as well.
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12/29/2021
Automation, Expertise, and the Human Firewall
Bad actors are relentless and leverage AI and automation to constantly search for a door into your environment. To combat the complex and creative attempts into your business, you need to match the sophistication to defend against the barrage of attacks.
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12/15/2021
A Layered Security Approach
While widely publicized incidents with large multi-national companies have made the headlines, an often-underreported story is the impact cybercrime has on small to medium sized businesses and the role that managed service providers can play in protecting and guiding this increasingly vulnerable segment.
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12/01/2021
Improving Your Organization's Security Posture
Improving your organization’s security posture to prevent, prepare for, or minimize the effect of a security breach requires a layered approach with a particular focus on five essential areas.
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10/22/2021
Envision First in the World to Achieve Citrix Ready Cloud Services Program
Citrix recognized Envision’s achievement of being the first in the world to earn the Citrix Ready Cloud Services Program for Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS!
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10/13/2021
An Extra-meaningful CEO Summit for Envision
The Conscious Capitalism 2021 CEO Summit awards Envision IT leadership for practicing and promoting business as a source for good in the world.
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7/01/2021
Featured: Supporting Employee Well-being New Citrix Workspace Microapps
People are the source of everything. Fostering a conscious culture and a culture of belonging empowers employees to celebrate and value small wins. And expressing gratitude is mutually beneficial.
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7/01/2021
Positive Takeaways from the Pandemic
If you’re looking for reasons to be optimistic about the post-pandemic world of work, consider this: For years, Gallup has shared research that remote work promotes employee engagement and engaged employees are more productive.
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5/01/2021
Envisioning a more Humane Workplace
Envision is purpose-driven. Our business is B2B technology services for organizations looking to innovate, operate with efficiency, remain vigilant against security threats, and maximize quality for stakeholders.
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4/20/2021
Cybersecurity Threats on the Rise
We often hear about the big business breaches in the news, but small and medium sized businesses are not out of the woods.
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1/14/2021
Password Management
Passwords are synonymous with security; managing these digital keys has become exponentially difficult and insecure. Let's discuss keeping track of them, how to manage them, and some ways threat actors use a stolen password to take over other accounts.
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1/01/2021
Celebrating 20 years
What does it take to earn 100% employee engagement and happy customers? The answer is 20 years of putting purpose before profit.
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12/17/2020
Important Cybersecurity News: FireEye and SolarWinds Breaches, December 2020
There have been two major security events in the past week that we wanted to share information on to help answer questions you may have. As always, please do not hesitate to reach out for further discussions around these events and how you can take measures to protect your users and systems.
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10/11/2020
Data Ownership
Who owns all of the 1's and 0's whizzing in your network or across the internet?
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9/28/2020
What is Light and Dark Data?
How well do you know your business data - is it being used to make decisions or just kept in a forgotten corner of your network?
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8/26/2020
Longer-term effects of COVID on Business
Amidst the pandemic, The Enterprise Strategy Group conducted an in-depth survey of North American IT decision-makers and over a thousand corporate knowledge workers to understand the present and future of the dynamic situation and the world of work. Results of this study prove out that the constant dialogue that Citrix and Envision maintain with their clients and prospects is indeed keeping them in-tune with the market needs and wisely positioned to address the demand.
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8/20/2020
Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
In the security news lately we've been reading about and dealing with some very serious Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities. So why are these so serious, how do they continue to show up and what can we do to stop them?
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7/23/2020
Envision Recognized as Citrix's First Customer Success and Adoption Preferred Partner
Recently Citrix selected a few trusted partners to begin a rigorous training plan and pilot efforts intended to shift this role to the partner. Envision is honored to be among that select group of partners.
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7/08/2020
Enriching a Whole Life
At Envision, we want the best for our Envision family. This includes supporting Envisioners in rewarding careers and an enriched life. Here are a few things that we've learned are helping Envisioners thrive...
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7/01/2020
The Future of Work, Post Covid-19
From its inception, Envision IT has sought to bridge the gap between technology and humanity — a mission its leaders acknowledge will only become more essential in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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5/04/2020
A new way to make work less work
As consumers, we live in a digitally connected world, where we have every device, app and bit of information we need at our fingertips. The same should be true at work. However, research shows us that employee engagement is impeded by a digital experience that is far from smooth.
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4/15/2020
Looking Beyond the Pandemic
Employers that hadn't answered the call pre-Coronavirus to prioritize employee engagement by extending flexible workstyles, have now been forcibly thrust into the world of remote work. We think some businesses will emerge better than ever, and with them will be an engaged workforce.
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4/14/2020
Microsoft Lends a Helping Hand to Businesses during Uncertain Times
Microsoft looked to their vast partner network for expertise to include in a Survival Guide for small and medium-size businesses amid COVID-19. The tech giant tapped Envision for insights from a conscious business.
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2/17/2020
Make your digital workspace work better - for everyone
Key considerations for delivering secure, unparalleled remote access.
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1/21/2020
Mitigate threats with a secure digital workspace
Build a strategic approach to network and app security.
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1/17/2020
Elevating humanity together
There is something fulfilling about seeing our clients do good in their communities and beyond (and doing so together!). Especially when that choice will provide a ripple of goodness for years to come.
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12/09/2019
Unlock opportunity with a new security approach
A secure digital workspace is the answer. Quite simply, it's a contextual, integrated way to deliver and manage the apps, desktops, data, and devices your users need to be productive.
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8/01/2019
7 best practices to securely deploy enterprise-grade apps
Companies like yours are doing everything they can to take advantage of mobility.
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7/01/2019
Is it time for a secure digital workspace?
There was a time when traditional workspaces simplified the ways we worked. But as mobile devices, BYOD, and new cloud architectures have become more prevalent, IT is experiencing greater complexity, organizations are opening themselves up to security risks, and employees are wanting better mobile experiences.
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6/01/2019
Work used to be a place. Not anymore.
Today, work is an increasingly dynamic activity that people expect to be as adaptable as they are. We've traded in the traditional cubicles and desktops for virtual meetings and mobile devices.
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1/02/2019
'Tis the Season for Sharing Gratitude and Joy
Envision hosts enriching event with special guest Jason Kotecki
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1/02/2019
The Power of TED*
*The Empowerment Dynamic
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12/19/2018
Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council Conference 2018
Envision was honored to participate in the 2018 WSBC conference
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12/18/2018
Envision IT Hosts Enriching Workshop Series
Envision IT Hosts Enriching Workshop Series: Enhanced Security with Azure and Citrix
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11/01/2018
CEO Summit 2018 for Conscious Capitalism
This event is where CEOs of conscious businesses go for professional development and networking with like-minded leaders in a shared mission to elevate humanity through business.
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10/04/2018
Step Forward. Give Hope.
Envisioners participated in the 2018 Alzheimer's Walk
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9/27/2018
I Climb Because They Climbed
2018 Stair Climb was held at Lambeau Field in Green Bay WI on September 22
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8/20/2018
Faxploit: Fax Machine Issues in 2018?
Recent research by Checkpoint has revealed some shocking issues with HP fax machines. This is another example why we have to pay special attention to what goes on our networks.
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6/18/2018
Wisconsin Elevating Humanity Through Business
Inaugural Conscious Capitalism Madison events a success
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5/29/2018
A Field Trip for Conscious Leaders, Amy Cuddy, & Harvard Students
Experiencing the caring culture of Barry Wehmiller in Phillips, Wisconsin
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5/21/2018
Channelnomics event spotlighting successful MSPs
Envision IT one of four US MSPs offering guidance to companies in transition
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5/21/2018
Personal Growth Leads to Professional Fulfillment
Investing in people, community, and customers can lead to profitability.
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5/21/2018
Congratulations to Habitat for Humanity of Dane County
Habitat for Humanity of Dane County opens new office location.
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3/30/2018
More on conscious leadership - exploring Shakti Leadership
Business leaders around the Midwest joined to learn more about Shakti Leadership
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3/30/2018
An Evening of Celebration, Enrichment, and a Little Something Different
Special guest, David Rendall joins Envisioners and friends of Envision around the holidays
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3/30/2018
Envision IT Hosts Enriching 2 Day Workshop Series
Envision IT hosts workshop series in two cities in March 2018
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1/26/2018
The Healing Organization
An inspirational message about the power of putting people first.
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1/05/2018
Purpose and Profit.
An interview with Madison business leader and Envision IT President Nancy Pautsch, a passionate and vocal supporter of the conscious capitalism ideals. As featured in Brava Magazine, December 2017.
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7/18/2017
Envision IT Delivers Enriching Workshop Series
Envision IT hosted a Workshop Series in multiple cities throughout Wisconsin.
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12/14/2016
ENVISION IT AIMING FOR FIRST PLACE IN GLOBAL INNOVATION AWARD COMPETITION
Popular Vote Helps Decide the Winner, Online Voting Opens January 2
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8/29/2016
Habitat for Humanity Build
The Envision IT family to work up a sweat helping to build a new home for the Hssaine and Khadija family. Envision IT joined its corporate neighbors and Habitat for Humanity of Dane County for a day of hard work coupled with fun and fulfillment.
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6/28/2016
Envision IT Recognized by DCSBA
The UW-Madison School of Business and its SBDC honored Envision IT for the contributions the owners and employees make to the community and economy. The award recognizes the business owners for having the vision and taking the risk as well as the teamwork of all the Envision employees that help make the company successful. Among the criteria for the award are maintaining a responsible and rewarding workplace environment and providing support for the community.
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6/10/2016
Envision IT Supports the American Family Children's Hospital
Envision IT is proud to sponsor the Mike and Jessica McCarthy Invitational benefiting UW Health's American Family Children's Hospital (AFCH). The Envision IT family has first-hand experience with the medical expertise and kindness of the caregivers at AFCH, and is excited to support them. Not only did the Envision organization contribute with sponsorship, but individual Envision IT employees personally donated to the cause.
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4/25/2016
Habitat For Humanity
Digging in to give back to the community. Envision IT will help build a home with Habitat for Humanity in their "Home is where the Start is" campaign. Leading up to the build efforts Envision joined the ground breaking event, Tuesday April 19th, in the division where the new houses will be located.
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3/04/2016
Envision IT Blood Drive
As Envision IT rapidly grows, we have committed ourselves to a continued effort to making the communities we touch a better place. "We like to think of ourselves as consultants with a conscience," says Nancy Pautsch, President at Envision IT.
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1/28/2016
Meals on Wheels January 2016
Envision IT's consultants, business development team, and leadership all volunteer to help deliver meals and provide safety checks for home-bound Madison residents.
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1/07/2016
Envision IT Recognized as "Best of the Best"
Envision IT was invited by Citrix Systems to participate on a panel discussion titled, "The Best of the Best: Becoming a Citrix Specialist" at the 2016 global conference for Citrix partners. Envision IT was one of four companies from around the world, and one of only two U.S. partners on the panel. Envision IT earned all of the Citrix specializations in 2015 endorsing their expertise across the Citrix portfolio.
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12/28/2015
Toys for Tots 2015
Again this year, Envision IT employees, clients, and business partners have rallied to support the local area Toys for Tots program.
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12/16/2015
Envision IT announced as a "Friend of Expo" by World Dairy Expo.
Bob Dankert, Director of Envision IT's Development team, and developer Kyle Davis were announced as a Friend of Expo by World Dairy Expo. The Envision team was bestowed the honor for their work on the WDE's website revamp and efforts that vastly improved the organization's use of the Internet to engage their audience.
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11/23/2015
8 Tips For Engaging Your Dial-In Meeting Attendees
We've all experienced it, the dial-in meeting where one person talks and everyone else is either too afraid or too distracted to chime in.
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11/09/2015
Our Top 5 Productivity Apps of 2015
Many of us are addicted to our mobile devices. We take them everywhere with us, and with their increasing power and high speed internet capabilities, everyone has access to their very own personal assistant. From note-taking, to calendars, timers and to-do lists, mobile apps provide us free resources to improve our personal and professional productivity.
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10/29/2015
A quick overview of Daylight Savings Time 2015
Daylight Savings Time 2015 - A quick overview of Daylight Savings Time
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10/19/2015
Top Reasons To Use A Password Manager
Using a password manager is a great way to improve personal security while also easing the burden of the ever-increasing number of accounts we acquire. Password managers address several key points in password security:
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9/29/2015
Envision Recognized For Continued Success
Envision IT, a leader in technology optimization for businesses, announced that it won two more awards in 2015. Organizations that recognized Envision IT included Ingram's SMB 500 and CRN 250.
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8/05/2015
Top 8 Wisconsin Locations To Work Remotely
So, as we enjoy the most pleasant Wisconsin summer we've had in recent years, we wanted to pull together a few locations that make for a great remote workday away.
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7/22/2015
Top 5 Curated Tips For Working Remotely
We took the best remote working tips from around the web and added our own tech twist.
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7/11/2015
Mobility In The Outback & The Underground
This story of John Holland Group helps us put access and communication in perspective, taking us from the outskirts to the underground and back again.
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7/07/2015
Global Distribution One Grape At A Time
When you have customers around the world, making decisions quickly - even the small ones - can dramatically impact product and service deliverables.
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7/02/2015
Remote Access In Remote Places
Working remotely has become one of the largest trends in attracting and keeping talent in an organization. In some circumstances, like Wisconsin's winters, working remotely is a necessity.
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6/29/2015
Forrester Whitepaper: Workforce Personas & Mobile App Gap
Marketers and human resource professionals use personas to personalize strategic initiatives - why don't technologist do the same? Forrester outlines how in this whitepaper.
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6/02/2015
Case Study: Cloud for Identit-e
Identit-e provides organizations with an online verification service that dictates user eligibility requirements to ensure that products and services are only offered to qualifying consumers. In a growing digital world, Identit-e services are expanding into numerous industries, products and countries.
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4/02/2015
The New Ransomware
Ransomware such as CryptoLocker has made the news and caused a lot of pain for many individuals and companies. Are you prepared for the next version of ransomware that has become more sophisticated and plans to go after your company's most important data?
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