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Frameworks are great for consultant presentations, but are they relevant to how work actually gets done in the real world? No doubt I have seen my share of boil-the-ocean IT models. I, like most of the pragmatic business leaders of our clients, don’t have time for them. That is why I like identifying cyber risks in SMBs using the NIST Framework. It provides a sophisticated …

Data security compliance has been coming after you for a while. It’s now picking up speed whether you like it or not. A couple of years ago the European Union issued GDPR to help protect citizens’ data rights. Companies that have any data from individuals who reside in the EU fall under this mandate, even if it’s just a simple online form.  California, New York, …

Nearly all companies today find themselves in a similar surreal business situation. However, ask yourself, would you rather expend your energy fighting to keep everything status quo or ante up to suffer the pain of change? Would you rather stagnate in the new COVID-19 reality and hope everything will work out or face the fact that your business must do things differently to thrive? Truth …

I recently had a conversation with a CFO of a smart company. She is making post-pandemic changes to her IT and was referred to Waident by a client.  On the surface, Waident is a perfect fit to help her and her team. We work with several firms in her industry with a similar workforce, technology platforms, and geographic dispersion. We support all their people and …

Waident has always been committed to providing IT solutions for SMBs. Today, we want to praise and help small businesses! We’ve been working with small businesses from across Illinois and Wisconsin to help them adapt to the lockdown and reduce the frequency, duration, severity, and cost of this fiasco, so that they can emerge stronger than ever.  If you share our appreciation for SMBs, you …