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Name: ITGuys
Address: Lakewood, CO, 80226, US
Telephone: +13035786256

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08/26/2026

Quick gut check for business owners: could you list every piece of software your company currently pays for, right now, off the top of your head?

Most owners can't get past the tools they personally use. Marketing has its own subscriptions. Sales has its own. Ops has its own. Someone signed up for a free trial eight months ago that became load-bearing infrastructure and nobody ever told finance.

None of that happens because anyone is careless. It happens because buying software got so easy that it stopped feeling like a decision. A credit card and an email address is all it takes now, and that convenience is exactly what makes it invisible.

The part that actually costs businesses money and exposure isn't the sprawl itself, it's what the sprawl hides. Duplicate tools nobody remembers to cancel. Access nobody remembers to revoke when someone leaves. Vendor relationships nobody in the building could describe if asked.

The fix isn't a lockdown. It's a habit: know what you're running, know who owns each tool, and build offboarding around a real list instead of a memory exercise. That one habit closes more risk than most security spending does.

We put together a deeper look at where this goes wrong and how to get ahead of it: https://mynewitguys.com/blog/saas-sprawl-small-business-risks

08/17/2026

Most offboarding checklists cover the visible stuff: collect the laptop, disable the email account, done.

But access doesn't live in one place anymore. It's spread across a dozen SaaS logins, shared credentials, forwarding rules, and sessions that never got logged out. Unless someone kept a running inventory of every account a person was ever given, IT is stuck trying to reconstruct it from memory when that person leaves.

That's usually the actual failure point, not carelessness, just structure. Access gets granted incrementally over months or years. It should get revoked the same way, deliberately and all at once, not reassembled after the fact.

The fix isn't complicated: log access as it's granted, cut it off at the identity layer first (this is where single sign-on earns its keep), and do a short follow-up review a few weeks after someone leaves to catch what slipped through.

https://mynewitguys.com/employee-offboarding-security-checklist-small-business/

08/06/2026

A federal court voided a company's entire cyber insurance policy over one missing checkbox.

Not fraud. Not a lie. Someone answered "yes, we have MFA" without knowing it was only enabled on the firewall, not the servers, not remote access, not the system ransomware actually got through.

The insurer sued. The court sided with them. The policy was voided from day one, right when the business needed it most.

This is happening more as insurers dig deeper before paying claims. In our latest article, we break down:
→ The 6 controls insurers actually check (MFA, EDR, tested backups, IR plans, patching, training)
→ Why "we have MFA" and "we have MFA everywhere" are two different claims
→ What to verify before your next renewal

Read it here: https://mynewitguys.com/what-your-cyber-insurance-policy-actually-requires-and-why-so-many-claims-get-denied/

07/31/2026

Quick story from our week: someone tried to get us to wire $12,000 to a fake vendor using a two-part scam. First a normal-looking invoice, then a follow-up email made to look like it came from our own owner, telling us to pay it fast and skip the usual checks.

It didn't work, but it was close enough to good that we wanted to share it. If a payment request ever tells you to skip your normal process, that's not a reason to move faster. That's the reason to stop and make a phone call first.

We wrote up exactly how the scam was built and what to watch for. Check it out if you want your team ready for the next one.

https://mynewitguys.com/someone-tried-to-scam-us-out-of-12000-heres-exactly-how-it-worked/

07/22/2026

Quick gut check: if your systems went down tomorrow, would you actually know what to do?

A lot of businesses have backups running in the background and just assume that means they're covered. But we've seen plenty of cases where the backup itself was fine and the business still lost a couple of days, just because nobody had a plan for actually using it. No one had tested a restore. No one knew what order things needed to come back in.

Backups protect your files. Getting back up and running takes an actual plan.
https://mynewitguys.com/backup-vs-disaster-recovery-small-business/

07/16/2026

Ever scanned a QR code on a flyer, an invoice, or a "delivery notice" text without thinking twice? So has almost everyone else, and that's exactly why scammers have shifted to hiding phishing links inside QR codes instead of typed links.

It's called "quishing," and it's one of the fastest-growing scam tactics of 2026. We put together a plain-English guide on how it works and how to protect your business (and yourself).

Check it out: [https://mynewitguys.com/qr-code-phishing-quishing-the-scam-hiding-in-plain-sight/]

06/29/2026

Have you ever driven past a house that just felt... off? Normal siding, regular roof, neat landscaping, but no signs of life. No cars. No lights at night. No indication anyone has ever lived there.

It might not be a house at all.

Across the country, tech companies are quietly building data centers disguised as homes in residential neighborhoods. They're designed to blend in. Most neighbors never find out what they're living next to.

We dug into what these buildings actually are, why they exist, and whether communities should have a say in it. It's a stranger story than you'd expect.

Read it on the blog. [https://mynewitguys.com/that-house-on-your-street-might-not-be-a-house/]

06/23/2026

Most businesses don't fully understand what they're getting when they hire a managed IT provider — and that gap leads to mismatched expectations, underutilized services, and bad vendor decisions.

We wrote a plain-English breakdown of exactly what a managed IT provider does day to day:

→ Continuous system monitoring
→ Help desk support for your team
→ Security patching and endpoint protection
→ Backup monitoring and disaster recovery
→ User access management
→ Vendor coordination
→ Strategic IT planning

And just as importantly — what a managed IT provider doesn't do, and how to tell whether your business actually needs one.

In our experience, the businesses that get the most value from managed IT are the ones who went in knowing what to expect. This article is for them.

🔗 Read the full breakdown: mynewitguys.com/blog/what-does-a-managed-it-provider-actually-do

06/11/2026

Think your business is too small to be targeted by cybercriminals?

Unfortunately, many attacks today focus on stolen passwords and compromised email accounts, not just large corporations.

That's where Zero Trust Security comes in.

Instead of automatically trusting users because they're inside the network, Zero Trust requires verification every time someone accesses company resources.

It's one of the biggest shifts happening in cybersecurity, and many businesses are already using parts of it without realizing it.

We've put together a simple guide explaining what Zero Trust is, why it matters, and how small businesses can benefit from it.

https://mynewitguys.com/what-is-zero-trust-security-a-small-business-guide/

06/05/2026

Many business owners assume cybercriminals are focused on large enterprises.

The reality is quite different.

Today's attackers use automation to identify vulnerable organizations at scale, making small businesses one of the most frequently targeted groups. Weak passwords, unpatched systems, and phishing attacks remain some of the most common entry points.

We break down why this shift has happened and what businesses can do to reduce their risk.

Check out our breakdown: https://itguysteam.com/why-small-businesses-are-now-the-1-target-for-cybercrime-in-2026/

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