Jim Mutone
New York’s SHIELD Act requires almost every business holding a New York resident’s personal data to run a written data security program. A company with around 20 employees still counts as a “small business” under the law, which lowers the bar to “reasonable” safeguards instead of a detailed checklist. This comes up constantly. An owner … Read more
Managed IT for a small business in Rockland, Westchester, or Bergen starts at $995 a month, with most 10 to 15 person offices landing between $1,000 and $2,800. The county doesn’t move the price. The size of your team and your environment does. We get asked this in almost every first call, usually somewhere around … Read more
A one-man IT shop puts every password, every vendor relationship, and every undocumented fix inside one person’s head. When that person leaves, gets sick, or retires, a small business loses its entire IT department in one day. Last spring an owner in Valley Cottage called me. Eighteen employees, light manufacturing, and the same IT guy … Read more
If your IT company only shows up when something breaks, keeps fixing the same problem, or can’t tell you what’s actually protecting your data, you’re paying for insurance that doesn’t cover the claim. Not a great deal. Most business owners don’t fire their IT provider over one bad day. They fire them after the fifth … Read more
Most IT companies that claim to cover Rockland, Westchester, and Bergen counties are either based somewhere else entirely or spread thin across a dozen other counties too. VJNetworks has covered all three from a single Rockland County home base since 2004. Not a knock on anybody. Just math. A company big enough to blanket three … Read more
