May 02, 2016

Security – Protecting Your Network

Monitoring, Watching for Attacks Recently, Evan noticed a high CPU usage alert for one of our client’s servers. When we took a look, we found that a port was being scanned in an attempt to hack the server. Within minutes, we were able to block the IP address and shut down the attack. What just […]

April 29, 2016

Video Update: Team Building Tips

Our Tech Team meets on a regular basis, but it’s not always about tech business. Sometimes it’s to focus on team building. We recently went through the book Five Dysfunctions of Team.   Watch our president’s short video of the recent team-building activities our tech team went through. Hope you get some good ideas!

April 21, 2016

New Malware – Protect Your Data

A new ransomware variant is out there called Jigsaw. Unless the $150 in bitcoin ransom is paid, criminals will delete the files throughout a 72-hour period. Why just $150? It’s a price most people are willing to pay, so the criminals get paid more often. It is less than a new computer, but enough to […]

April 18, 2016

Business Ledger Tech Tips Column

Click here to visit the Business Ledger homepage and view the entire publication. Click here to go directly to the online version of Catherine Wendt’s “Password security tips to keep in mind.”

April 15, 2016

Sage 100 Contractor Price Increase Effective May 1 – There’s Still Time To Beat It!

Considering Sage 100 Contractor? Call us today and beat the price increase. It’s not too late to purchase Sage 100 Contractor accounting software or additional seats at the current rate. Purchase price increases 6% on May 1, so call Brian today! 630-850-9039 If you currently use Quick Books or another accounting software, but your company […]

April 14, 2016

The Hinsdalean Business Profile: Syscon Inc.

March 22, 2016

Apple Isn’t Virus-Proof After All

We’ve seen virus attacks on Apple products, but most of the time we hear ‘Apples don’t get virus attacks’ which we know isn’t true. Hackers have dabbled in attacks against this product line, but it’s a much smaller target, so we haven’t seen as many attacks…until now. Recently, Apple acknowledged it had to shut down […]

March 22, 2016

Do You Have a Plan?

We all have key staff members with unique knowledge, deep knowledge, of our business and its internal processes— I have several! What if one of those key people had a life-changing event and became unavailable? Sound like I’m trying to be dramatic? Keep reading… Five years ago I was one of those people, and I […]

March 22, 2016

Updates and Tips from Syscon

Did You Know? Sage 100 Contractor I’ve watched a lot of users click the Save icon to leave a screen. You may not have thought about it, but if you had accidentally changed a field, you just saved the change! I recently had three different clients with odd changes for someone’s Federal withholding. They had […]

March 22, 2016

OverUnder Billing – WIP

Mention ‘Work in Progress’ in a construction setting, and you’ll get different definitions and explanations about what this means. For our Subcontractors, it is a way to measure the expenses against the budget, determine the percent complete, and therefore, measure revenue earned compared to revenue booked on a job. Many years ago (more than we […]