Businesses switch MSPs when unpredictable billing, IT that only shows up after something breaks, and undocumented systems turn a vendor relationship into a liability nobody can plan around. I’ve watched this pattern play out for more than twenty years now. Business owners almost never leave an IT provider because the old one was bad at … Read more
If you’re already sure your IT provider isn’t cutting it, these eight signs are how you confirm it, from no proactive monitoring and zero documentation to a team quietly building workarounds instead of calling for help. Most switches don’t happen because of one bad afternoon. They happen because an owner adds up six months of … Read more
Revit models, AutoCAD drawings, and point-cloud scans are outgrowing the servers, VPNs, and backup windows most architecture and engineering firms built years ago, and the fix is usually storage, bandwidth, and workflow changes, not new design software. A 400MB Revit file doesn’t stay 400MB once it’s open. Revit users commonly report memory use climbing toward … Read more
Manufacturing led every industry sector IBM tracked for the fifth year straight in 2026, and ransomware showed up in 61% of manufacturing breaches, the highest share Verizon has recorded for any sector. The reason lives on the shop floor, not in the finance department. Ask a manufacturer in Rockland or Bergen County why a ransomware … Read more
Dark web monitoring genuinely works for what it does, flagging your leaked credentials in criminal marketplaces and breach dumps, but it only catches theft after it happens and misses far more than it finds. Most sales pitches for this service use the same image. Somebody in a dark room, watching your data trade hands in … Read more
Most small businesses still need their VPN in 2026, but Zero Trust closes gaps a VPN was never built to cover, and the right call for most companies is layering the two, not picking one. That question has shown up in more IT reviews this year than it did two years ago, mostly because attackers … Read more
Last updated: August 27, 2026. Reviewed by: Mike Stoveken, Vice President, VJNetworks, 20+ years managing IT infrastructure for small businesses across Rockland, Westchester, and Bergen. MFA stops a stolen password from being enough on its own, but it does nothing about what a logged-in account can touch, or how fast a former employee’s access gets … Read more
Business email compromise cost U.S. victims $3 billion in 2025 alone, and it rarely involves malware. Someone impersonates an executive or vendor by email, creates urgency, and asks for a wire transfer. No virus. No exploit. Just a well-timed lie. Every other threat covered in VJNetworks’ cybersecurity work involves some piece of malicious code somewhere. … Read more
A business password manager needs centralized admin controls, MFA enforced on the vault itself, secure team sharing, and an audit trail. Free personal apps skip all four, and that gap is where small teams get hurt. Chrome remembers passwords. So does Safari. Neither one was built for a five-person team where someone gets fired on … Read more
The GLBA Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314) requires most state-registered RIAs to run a written information security program, and even the small-firm exception for under 5,000 clients only waives four of ten required elements, not the rule itself. Two different federal regulators enforce cybersecurity rules on investment advisors. Which one has authority over a … Read more
