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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

What You Need to Know About Your Business’ Cybersecurity Compliance

What You Need to Know About Your Business’ Cybersecurity Compliance

Regardless of your industry, there are going to be certain regulatory standards that you will be responsible for upholding. Many of these standards will be related in some way to your cybersecurity. Some of these cybersecurity standards are listed below, as is why compliance is so imperative for your business.

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Password Best Practices

Password Best Practices

Passwords are just one aspect of a comprehensive security strategy, but they are a crucial one. You must make sure that you are investing adequate time and effort into making sure your passwords are secure. This is easier said than done, but by the end of this brief article, you’ll have the essential information you need to craft excellent passwords for your accounts.

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Critical Thinking Benefits Your Business

Critical Thinking Benefits Your Business

Critical thinking skills are universally helpful to have, especially in the business setting, and especially when it comes to your business’ information technology management. Listed below are ways these skills benefit your business, and how you can work to foster them.

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3 Network Protections All Businesses Should Have

3 Network Protections All Businesses Should Have

Last week, we went over why your organization's cybersecurity processes need to include training. This time around, we wanted to focus on the other side of things, focusing on the essential network protections that no modern business should be operating without.

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Four Warning Signs of Phishing

Four Warning Signs of Phishing

Cybercrime is a big deal, and phishing is responsible for a large percentage of the cyberattacks out there. The act of phishing is a good old-fashioned social engineering scheme. Essentially, a scammer sends a message with the intent to have someone interact with the message, thus giving them access (or at least the information needed to gain access) to accounts. Listed below is how to identify phishing messages.

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Explaining Blockchain

Explaining Blockchain

The blockchain has been a hot topic in the past few years, if only tangentially. With all the buzz about cryptocurrencies, it can be easy to forget about the underlying technology that powers it and its other applications. Listed below is a discussion about how the blockchain could be involved with security needs in the future.

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Why Your Business Needs a Data Recovery Strategy

Why Your Business Needs a Data Recovery Strategy

Data backup is a must-have for every business, but it isn’t enough to just copy your data; you need to have a data recovery strategy in place to ensure that your business can effectively respond after a data loss incident. Listed below is a look at why considering your recovery strategy early is imperative, and how to prioritize it with everything else going on with your business.

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Today's Businesses Need Today's Tech Support

Today's Businesses Need Today's Tech Support

Information technology plays a vital role in modern business operations—and with such a critical role to play, it is important that your organization’s IT is well maintained. To accomplish this effectively, your choice of provider matters. While we are admittedly biased, we strongly recommend that you seek out a managed service provider for your needs.

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You Could Know More About Cybersecurity

You Could Know More About Cybersecurity

Today's threat landscape is vast and unpredictable; even if you think you know enough about cybersecurity to protect your business, we bet that you don’t. It’s not even just in the business world, either, as individuals also struggle against cyberthreats, along with IT administrators. The next couple of weeks will be dedicated to cybersecurity to get across everything you need to know about it.

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How to Manage Virtual Desktops in Windows 11

How to Manage Virtual Desktops in Windows 11

Most of the time, user productivity is just about getting down to business. However, sometimes there are simply just too many different tasks to complete and it can bog down the production process. One way that users can use Windows to help them manage tasks is via the use of virtual desktops. Users can utilize multiple desktop experiences to separate the myriad of things they need to do. Listed below is how to utilize multiple virtual desktops in Windows 11. 

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Could Passkeys Replace Passwords?

Could Passkeys Replace Passwords?

Whether you love them or hate them, passwords serve a critical purpose in the realm of cybersecurity. They are the first line of defense against potential threats, yet they are also notoriously easy to crack. Some of the biggest names in technology have been working on ways to get around the challenges presented by password security, including one that we are excited to highlight in today’s blog.

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How to Clean Your Keyboard

How to Clean Your Keyboard

The keyboard that you're using to access this blog is, in a word, gross. While we aren’t going to go into too much detail about what makes keyboards so grimy, we did want to outline how you can easily clean up your keyboard every so often, just to make sure that it’s A: more hygienic, and B: less likely to malfunction at some point.

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Document Digitization and it's Benefits

Document Digitization and it's Benefits

Most of today's organizations have digitized their businesses to at least some degree without really putting much effort or thought into it. This massive and often unconscious change has created a lot of benefits for businesses with perhaps one of the most overlooked being document digitization. Listed below are the great benefits that come from this initiative and why your business should consider it.

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T-Mobile’s Data Breach History

T-Mobile’s Data Breach History

It hasn’t been very long since T-Mobile experienced its latest cyber attack, but alas, here we are again. Hackers have again accessed customer data, with 37 million customers being affected amongst both their prepaid and subscription-based accounts.

Listed below is an explanation of the situation, and what can be learned from it.

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Four Ways to be More Patient

Four Ways to be More Patient

Our blog last week covered how patience is an imperative part of the most successful and productive employees’ arsenal. This week, we want to cover how you can help your employees be more patient. If you know someone in your office who could take things down a notch, this is just the blog for you with four suggestions that might do the trick.

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VoIP can Save Your Business Time, Energy, and Resources

VoIP can Save Your Business Time, Energy, and Resources

The business telephone solution: you know you need it, but you dislike working with your current telephone provider for a number of reasons. You know you can get a better deal if you look around, but we bet that the best deal around is a hosted Voice over Internet Protocol solution from Macro Systems. How can our VoIP solution save your organization time, energy, and resources?

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The Benefits of AI

The Benefits of AI

AI has been a popular topic in recent months and years, which only makes sense. Not only has it been used in more public applications, but it has also caused controversy as it seems to “compete” with people. Back in September, art made by using an artificially intelligent platform caused a stir by winning an art competition, and workplace fears of a computer taking one’s job have seemingly become more well-founded than ever.

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Patience is a Virtue, Especially Amongst Your Staff

Patience is a Virtue, Especially Amongst Your Staff

Most people are capable of productivity, but sometimes it can come a bit harder for some than for others. If you find your staff have difficulty with consistency and productivity, we aren’t here to tell you methods for enhancing their productivity; rather, we want to introduce a concept that is often overlooked when trying to get the most out of your team, and is a trait often found in the most productive people. That trait is patience. 

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Employees vs. Artificial Intelligence

Employees vs. Artificial Intelligence

For many years now, there’s been a bit of a fear of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, all while it has been put into practical use more and more often in many businesses. This all ties back to the work of Alan Turing, who, amongst his accomplishments in computing, created the Turing Test as a means of gauging how intelligent a computer is. 

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How Collaboration Helps Businesses

How Collaboration Helps Businesses

Business has changed dramatically over the last ten years. Costs have been rising. That means that businesses, just like everyone else, have to pay more for everything. This creates a situation where they may need to scale back on some things and not be as aggressive as was once possible. One way that most businesses can get around this is by investing in collaboration. Fortunately for them, technology has been getting more collaborative. Listed below is a look at three ways collaboration has found its way into business.

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