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At Essential Tech Solutions, we like to keep clients informed. Located in Springvale, ME, we offer IT services to small businesses throughout Maine and New Hampshire. As small business owners, it is essential to be in the know of the latest technological advancements.
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Understanding Active and Passive Attack Vectors
Attack vectors refer to a route or technique employed by a hacker to unlawfully infiltrate a network or device to exploit vulnerabilities in the system. Attack vectors are divided into active and passive attacks. Active Attack Vectors Active attack vectors involve...
IT staffing should address risk first and foremost
For any business, but especially a smaller one without deep pockets, the consequences of a natural disaster, human error or cyberattack may mean the end of the business. As a result, when pursuing IT staffing risk evaluation becomes critical. Risk management...
Forego the standard IT staffing models
From the outset, even the smallest start-up is reliant on IT infrastructure. Digital technology cannot be avoided. For small-to-medium-sized businesses, developing and bringing on staff to support that IT infrastructure is often a low priority compared to ramping up...
Risk assessment: A Value model
Risk assessment is all about identifying external and internal threats that exist for your business, measuring the likely consequences if any of them becomes reality, and determining how each could damage or impede your business. A data security risk assessment would...
Addressing IT in Your SMB
No matter the size of your business, the product or service you sell; your company is at least partially reliant on technology to survive and function in today’s marketplace. It is just unavoidable. A significant portion of everyone's business is online in some...
2024 Expected Cybersecurity Trends
What do the 2024 cybersecurity trends look like? According to Forbes, by year’s end, the expected cost of cyber attacks is likely to top $10.5 trillion annually. How will this impact SMBs? AI: Tool and Weapon Increased, adaptive threats mean that every aspect of...
AI All Around Us
It is virtually impossible to avoid hearing about AI all around us. Ever since ChatGPT hit the market, AI has become a never-ending topic of news, articles, advertisements. Many sing its praises and tout all the benefits, while others warn of doom and gloom....
Small Business Use of AI
AI tools can help even the smallest business is in sales and marketing. Most businesses put up a website. Marketing on social media is common for many, and can be a game-changer for a small startup. However, a lot of marketing on social media and through your website...
AI: Can you avoid the risks it carries?
Are there risks to AI? Absolutely. Can you avoid the risks it carries? For example, in the area of content creation, there are a variety of risks that you open yourself up to. One of the more significant is the trustworthiness of the content created. You rely on...
Generative AI’s Value for an SMB
What is Generative AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been in the news a lot this year. Specifically, it isn't AI in general, but a specific category of AI known as generative AI. This AI is capable of creating content such as documents for marketing and website...
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