BigBIG Conference 2021: Award Recipient

MCG, Inc. proudly received the Overall Operations Excellence Award at the BigBIG conference hosted by Taylor Business Group (TBG) this month! TBG is a peer organization with over 180 MSP organizations, just like MCG, Inc., who are members. The goal is to bring like minded businesses together to provide a forum to improve through sharing…

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Bridging the Gap: Emergency Subsidy

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently approved an emergency subsidy for low-income households to get high-speed internet in an effort to bridge the digital divide cutting many Americans off from online communication during the pandemic. The FCC agreed to offer up to $50 a month to low-income households, up to $75 a month to households…

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Calling All Companies With Network Problems

Skweirsky, Alpert, & Bressler LLP recently was faced with mounting problems with their email and network.  When their current IT firm was unable to resolve the issues, they turned to MCG and its network team.  Within a matter of hours the critical issues were addressed. From there, MCG went on to perform a network review…

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Can You Hear Me Now?

The economy may be free falling, but here at MCG things are flying.  Evidence of this is our strong recurring customer base, and a successful formula for attracting new clients. To this end, MCG has hired a New Business Development Manager.  His name is Andrew Leopold, and together with our marketing efforts and our frequent…

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Charles Nolan Joins Managed Resources Program

Charles Nolan, designer and owner of a downtown woman’s apparel store has signed on to the Managed Resources program.  MCG helped move the company to its brand new offices in Chelsea and Stamford, CT.  Since then Charles Nolan has started to utilize redBoomerang for its off site date protection and depends on MCG to keep…

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Chrome zero-day browser bug: Patch now!

Though Google’s Project Zero bug-hunting team is usually vocal when describing software vulnerabilities, they’ve taken a very quiet approach to a just-patched bug in the Chrome browser this past week. Typically the team discovers and patches vulnerabilities before they can be taken advantage of; in this case cybercrooks were already abusing the hole in real-life…

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COVID-19: Staying Safe Beyond The Mask

Months into the Coronavirus Pandemic, we are all aware of many safety measurements to take to help prevent the spread of the virus, and stay protected from becoming infected. Washing our hands, wearing our masks, limiting our contact with others – the list goes on. However, during these times, we also need to remember to…

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Cyber Predictions for 2023

John and Dray from Huntress kicked off the new year by sharing their predictions regarding the threats and insights trending in 2023. The first of five key trusted knowledge observations (TKO) is Phishing. Cyber attackers will continue to use the economic crisis and political tie-in’s to phish users; a popular method will include documents with catchy…

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Datto Elite Status

Happy New Year! As partners of Datto, MCG, Inc. is proud to announce that as of January 2017, we have advanced to the Elite tier of the Partner Plus Program. The Elite tier is the highest tier available and offers many benefits. As an Elite Datto Partner, MCG now has partner portal access, a dedicated…

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De Blasio: Computer Science to All Students

Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced that within 10 years all of the city’s public schools will be required to offer computer science to all students. The major challenge of this announcement is training enough teachers and training them well enough to provide a good introduction to the subject. While computer science will not be…

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