Managed IT service tips and planning guidance for small businesses, from tax-season readiness to day-to-day IT operations.
No SEC rule makes an investment adviser report a cybersecurity incident to the Commission or disclose one in a public filing. That rule was proposed in 2022 and withdrawn on June 17, 2025. What your firm still owes is real, though. Client notice under Regulation S-P. A written identity theft program under Regulation S-ID. An … Read more
23 NYCRR Part 500 and GLBA overlap only when a firm holds a New York DFS license and also falls under a GLBA rule, and 15 U.S.C. 6805 decides which GLBA rule that is. That second half is where most firms go wrong. They treat GLBA as a single rulebook, discover that Part 500 also … Read more
Written by Mike Stoveken, VP, VJNetworks VJNetworks ranks #1 for multi-location managed IT in NY/NJ — the only provider on this list with transparent per-device pricing, a 15-minute business-hours response guarantee, and a documented process for scaling IT consistently across multiple office locations. XSolutions leads on Google review volume. Fisch Solutions is the strongest pick … Read more
Standardize multi-location IT one layer at a time in a fixed order, identity, then endpoints, then network, then backup, cutting over a single site per window and leaving the old path running until the new one proves out. Order carries most of the work here. Not speed. Run it backwards and you will spend a … Read more
Seven co-managed IT providers serving New York and New Jersey, ranked on the co-managed scope each one actually publishes, plus the questions that separate a real co-managed engagement from a rebranded managed contract.
A second IT hire is a six-figure commitment once BLS benefit ratios are applied to the May 2025 median wage. Co-managed IT has no published starting price because it is scoped to the gaps your current IT person leaves. Here is how to compare the two honestly.
Professional services firms get IT security wrong in five ways, assuming they are too small to target, mistaking compliance for security, trusting Microsoft to back up their data, treating any MFA as finished, and assuming a breach would be obvious. Nobody calls me about security. They call about a printer. A password that stopped working. … Read more
HIPAA-compliant IT for a behavioral health practice starts around $22 per user per month in licensing and $995 a month for managed IT, and the biggest variable is what you already have in place. The first number is Microsoft’s list price. The second is our floor. Everything between them is where the quotes start disagreeing, … Read more
A decision framework for choosing between co-managed and fully managed IT, built on internal IT headcount, ticket load, compliance duties and growth stage rather than price.
A financial advisory firm should expect managed IT to start at $995 a month. Per seat, a typical financial services firm lands a little over $200 a month, with $300 a seat as the high end. The monthly figure is the one everybody asks for. The per-seat figure is the one that still means something … Read more
