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Windows 10 hit end of support October 14, 2025. If your Houston business is still running it, here's the realistic path forward, with costs for a typical 25-seat office.
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A logistics company near the Port of Houston had exactly one IT administrator — sharp, trusted, the guy who knew where every cable went. In late August, with a tropical system spinning in the Gulf, he was three days into a long-overdue trip to see his daughter in Austin. That’s when the primary internet circuit…
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This is our second monthly deep dive, and we're tackling something with the highest stakes in the entire series: your passwords.A password manager holds the keys to everything — email, banking, your line-of-credit portal, your payroll system, your customers' systems. Vaultwarden is a lightweight, open-source server that's fully compatible with the Bitwarden apps and browser…
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A Houston accounting firm got asked for their risk assessment during a cyber-insurance renewal. The owner pulled a 14-page PDF off the server, the one a previous vendor had handed over two years earlier, and forwarded it without opening it. The underwriter read it in about ninety seconds and replied with one question: “Can you…
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If you can't confidently answer these 25 questions, you have gaps. Plain English, no IT degree required. Mirror what insurers, customers, and regulators all want to know.
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It’s 6:40 on a Tuesday evening in a Westchase office park. The one-person IT department — the sysadmin who also fixes the printers, manages the ERP, and answers “is the Wi-Fi down?” forty times a day — just got home and sat down to dinner. At 6:52, the first encrypted file appears on a shared…
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It's the question that comes up the moment a business owner starts adding up subscription fees and thinking about data ownership:"Could we just leave Microsoft 365 entirely? Run our own stuff, own our data, stop paying per-person every month forever?"The honest answer is: partly, and it depends. Some of Microsoft 365 has excellent open-source, self-hostable…
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“We never signed up for any of that. We just take cards.” That’s what a Houston restaurant owner told us after his processor froze his account and demanded a forensic investigation. He was right that nobody handed him a binder labeled “PCI.” He was wrong that he never agreed to it. He had — the…
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OT and IT can no longer be kept apart in Baytown and Beaumont industrial operations. Here's how to integrate them without exposing your control systems.
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The IT director at a Houston professional-services firm finally booked the vacation his wife had been asking about for two years. Five days in, the firm’s main file server stopped responding and forty people couldn’t open a document. He took the call from a beach in Galveston and spent three hours walking a panicked office…
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Walk into most Houston small businesses and look at what's standing between the whole company and the internet. Usually it's the combo modem/router the internet provider dropped off — the same consumer-grade box you'd get for a house, with a default password on a sticker and firmware that may not have been updated since it…
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“We’re covered — our EHR is HIPAA compliant.” We hear it in nearly every first conversation with a Houston medical or dental practice. It’s said with real confidence, usually because a software salesperson said it first. And it’s one of the most expensive misunderstandings a practice owner can carry around. Here’s the blunt version: there…
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