The Waident Blog

Companies with Resilient IT approach technology strategically and proactively.  Resilient IT reduces the frequency, severity, and duration of fiascoes. More importantly, it gives you an evergreen lens through which to make important IT decisions for the post-COVID-19 world.

Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want. – Kristin Armstrong, Three-time Olympic gold medalist   Many of us have been focused on keeping our companies afloat—conserving cash, protecting employees, retaining customers, adapting to “martial law,” and navigating new layers …

You’re stuck working at home like everyone else and your company suddenly needs to figure out how to handle team communication while the COVID-19 pandemic is happening. Someone does a quick search for tools and they find Zoom, a newer platform that is popular with millennials and getting some good press. Why go with some old dodgy system that has been around for many many …

Take your Cybersecurity more seriously now with COVID-19 With the COVID-19 pandemic upon us, life is disrupted, different, and often nothing like what you would have ever expected. Before the pandemic, the decisions you would make with IT and cybersecurity were deemed as accessible risk, but now that you are most likely running your business differently, you need to handle your IT and cybersecurity differently. …

Some of the nicest people get hacked. Don’t let it happen to you. So, how do you know if your business has been hacked? My bet is you don’t—and you may never know. The sad fact is that most of the systems you are using right now do NOT have any ability to alert you to hacker-type activities or a breach. You may be thinking, …