The Key Point Blog

08/17/2022
Carl Schell

Impact Networking’s educational event on managed IT services and how work gets done today

Impact Networking and IT have gone hand in hand for a while now, through a labor-intensive break/fix phase to its current, more efficient managed model. The show aims to address how best to fill the gap between business and technology as well as how to educate existing Impact Networking customers and its potential clients on the benefits, trends, and the future of IT. “Innovate to Evolve” is an apropos tagline.
08/11/2022
Mark DiMattei

Introducing new parental security measures to protect teens online

Social media may feel like it's been a part of our lives for forever, but we are still working out how everyone can use it safely. We discuss here how certain social media apps are enacting safety controls for teens as well as the dangers that younger users can face.
08/05/2022
Bridget Dedian

Reinforcing the trust in remote voting is paramount

While the use of mail-in ballots exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic, the politicization of absentee voting caused a lot of distrust in the process. We discuss here some of the history of mail-in voting as well as the results of our recent LinkedIn poll.
07/05/2022
Jamie Bsales

Looking the latest cyber threats and how to combat them

Sponsored by ConnectWise, the leading vendor focused on managed IT services providers, the IT Nation Secure event focused on cybersecurity for several audiences. We discuss here the highlights of the event as well as some of the challenges facing cybersecurity professionals today.
06/13/2022
Carl Schell

Company continues transformation through products, services, positive energy, and honesty

The company presented its eight-pronged strategy that encompasses hardware and software (office and production), professional services and managed IT, as well as e-commerce and subscriptions. It should go without saying that “pandemic,” “supply chain,” and “inflation” were oft-used words. But, at the end of the day, Kyocera representatives made no excuses and promoted change as a very good thing.
06/06/2022
David Sweetnam

A look into the newer, shinier hacker of our digital landscape

Cybersecurity is an ever-growing issue in our highly digital world, one that is becoming far more refined than the days of suspicious looking e-mail links.
05/03/2022
Carl Schell & Jamie Bsales

Production print and digital transformation central to company’s new Client Engagement Center

Making the Client Engagement Center the centerpiece of this week’s Konica Minolta 2022 Dealer Summit was clearly the right move. Located at the company’s US headquarters in Ramsey, New Jersey, the CEC houses devices Konica Minolta offers in production print, wide format, labels and packaging, as well as digital embellishment. These represent growth areas (industrial print is up 151% year-over-year) and are, obviously, critical for the company as it shifts into high gear with its dealers.
04/15/2022
Jamie Bsales

And you can, too!

After Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, Anonymous decided to support the Ukrainian people by sending anti-war messages to printers around the Russian Federation. We discuss here how security exploits can be located and used.
02/08/2022
Mark DiMattei

Massachusetts proposes new data security bill to protect residents

Cybersecurity legislation is growing in use across the US, with Massachusetts becoming the latest state to craft a bill concerned with data use. This blog explores some of the key details and what this could mean for data privacy.
01/28/2022
Mark DiMattei

It’s 2022: Do you know where your data’s been?

This blog discusses the National Cybersecurity Alliance’s Data Privacy Week and provides general ideas on how businesses can better utilize client data ethically.