We calculated the actual dollar impact of common outage scenarios. The numbers will change how you think about IT investment.
For a 50-person firm at a $65K average salary, a single four-hour outage costs roughly $7,000 in lost productivity alone — before lost revenue, recovery labor, or reputation.
Multiply your fully-loaded hourly labor cost by headcount affected and hours down. Add lost revenue for customer-facing systems. Most leaders are surprised how quickly a few incidents per year exceed the cost of proactive management.
Proactive monitoring, patching, and tested backups convert unpredictable, expensive outages into rare, short ones. Try our downtime calculator to put a number on your own risk.
Most managed IT proposals look complete until something goes wrong. Use this checklist to evaluate whether a provider's engagement actually covers your firm — before you sign.
Paying your cyber insurance premium does not mean your insurer will pay a claim. If the controls you attested to on the application — MFA, tested backups, employee training — were not active when a breach occurred, the claim can be denied.
Your Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription already covers most of the security basics your small office needs. The rest can be closed for a modest monthly cost. Here is what you must have, what you can skip, and where the non-negotiable floor sits.