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Microsoft Teams is a lot of things. It’s a video conferencing tool, a team messaging channel, and a tool for in-app co-authoring, just to name a few. During the pandemic, the popularity of Teams skyrocketed.  User numbers for MS Teams jumped from 20 million in November 2019 to 75 million in April 2020. As of…

It’s Halloween Eve and you’re craving some soup. While you’re cooking tomato-basil soup, how do you know you’ve added enough pepper?  You taste it and adjust as needed.  When you work out, how do you measure the weight you lost at the end of the week?   You step on the scale.  In every aspect of…

In less than four short months, we’ll be celebrating 2023. There’s no better time like the present to get familiar with your law firm’s 2023 IT budget.   Why? 2023 spells one BIG thing for all law firms and their technology: CYBERSECURITY. Between the skyrocketing rate of cyberattacks hitting the legal industry and increasingly restrictive federal…

Managed IT service providers (MSPs) are experiencing an industry-wide revolution. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most MSPs focused on technology solutions with cybersecurity as an afterthought. Cybersecurity wasn’t an aspect of technology many businesses wanted to invest in because there wasn’t a notable demand for it– data breaches were just unfortunate mishaps people hoped didn’t target…

How often does your firm train in cybersecurity?   If the answer is not at all, or occasionally, don’t worry; most law firms we come across are in the same boat. For the sake of this topic, let’s pretend your firm has recently gone through training   In this example, you just finished an annual cybersecurity training course…

July 23rd, 2022  Torrance, CA. – Strategic Technology Solutions (STS), a Managed IT  Services, Cloud Services and Cybersecurity provider serving the legal industry, has been named as a premier Managed Service Provider (MSP) in the 2022 Channel Futures MSP 501 rankings.   Channel Futures is a highly competitive publication, recognizing only the most prestigious providers of…

As a lawyer, firm executive, or team member running a law firm, you’re tasked daily with overseeing and directing a large amount of sensitive information. This can include client research, billing, budgeting, legal ethics, organizing case records, and beyond. With most of your billable hours occupied by the weight of operating within the justice system,…

In 2020, 75% of companies around the world experienced a phishing attack.   One phishing email can be responsible for a company succumbing to ransomware and having to face costly downtime, making it one of the biggest dangers to your business’s health and wellbeing. Phishing can lead a user to unknowingly hand over the credentials to…

Los Angeles, CA- March 30, 2022- Strategic Technology Solutions (STS), a Managed IT Services, Cloud Solutions, and Cybersecurity Provider serving law firms in southern California and Arizona, announced today the hire of their new Director of Business Development, Michael Ubaldini. STS is pleased to expand its technology advisory and consulting services with the addition of Ubaldini…

The truth is that threat actors are probably already in your IT systems, quietly gathering intelligence on your greatest security vulnerabilities. Their preferred entry into your IT systems is through your firm’s inbox. In fact, according to the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report, phishing email attacks increased by roughly 1,100% from 2017 to 2021. Its…