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Venture-funded life sciences and technology firms frequently discover themselves on a steep path of expansion. As your company expands, the need for specialized IT, security, and compliance functions becomes increasingly critical. However, building and maintaining these functions in-house can be expensive and challenging. This is where outsourcing partners come into play. With this in mind, what criteria should you consider while searching for an outsourcing collaborator for critical IT, security, and compliance roles to ensure your company’s continued success?

Your Pain: As cloud accounts proliferate in growing companies, the tasks of managing these services get more complex and time-consuming just when you need your full attention on product development.

In the fast-paced world of Software as a Service (SaaS), companies often find themselves in need of specialized expertise to manage critical functions such as IT, security, and compliance. As your SaaS company grows, it becomes increasingly challenging to handle these aspects internally, which is where outsourcing can be a game-changer. Choosing the right outsourcing partner for these functions is a crucial decision that can significantly impact your company’s success. Let’s explore what to look for in an outsourcing partner for key IT, security, and compliance functions while your SaaS company is on the path to growth.

Your Pain: You need to grow your development team and business staff. You don’t need the time-consuming headache of preparing the computers and provisioning cloud services needed for a successful onboarding experience. Then there is the clean-up when someone leaves the company.

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, artificial intelligence companies are at the forefront of innovation. They play a pivotal role in transforming industries. But with this growth comes the challenge of managing critical IT, security, and compliance functions effectively. As your AI company continues to expand, partnering with the right outsourcing provider becomes crucial to ensure seamless operations and regulatory compliance. What criteria should you consider when selecting an outsourcing partner for these critical functions within your organization?

Your Pain: Your customers need you to be SOC2-compliant to ensure their own security, but you have no cycles to spare.  You’re focused on developing your products and can’t be distracted.  You need some reliable help to take this off your plate.

In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, emerging technology service providers are at the forefront of innovation in industries like software. However, with innovation comes responsibility, especially when handling sensitive data and providing essential services to enterprise clients. This is where SOC 2 compliance steps in as a critical factor in bringing your software to market.

You’re an emerging technology service provider and understand that SOC2 compliance is a critical step in bringing your solution to market. It’s an important selection criterion for prospective enterprise customers. It helps them manage their risk without spending time validating your security profile. It will also help you manage your risks and assist you in meeting other regulations like HIPAA, ISO and GDPR in the future.

With many companies pausing their growth plans due to economic uncertainty, it’s a great time to get your processes ready for growth when the opportunity returns.

Driven by the shift to distributed and home-based workforces, security and compliance concerns have become top concerns for life science leaders and stakeholders. To address these new risks, life science IT managers are shifting to centrally-managed tools and skills, but finding the right-sized solution in the endless sea of options can be difficult. 

Since 2020, most companies have scrambled to cope with remote work and the business challenges brought on by the pandemic. With pandemic-related and supply chain challenges dominating business leaders’ time and energy, many of the data security bombshells that dropped in the last two years went unnoticed. Cyber attacks are becoming faster, more frequent, and more advanced. Without all-encompassing protection, there’s a good chance that your company and employees are at risk. 

Security information and event management (SIEM) is a field of computer security focused on real-time analysis and swift resolution. SIEM products are used to log security data, generate reports for compliance purposes, and provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated by applications and network hardware.

A Security Operations Center (SOC) is a centralized 24×7 team that deals with security issues on an organizational and technical level, complementing your internal tools and processes to provide a complete security solution. SOCs are often used by large corporations, but what about the mid-market companies? In this blog post, we will discuss how SOCs can provide more comprehensive protection at a lower cost than maintaining in-house personnel.

Emerging companies often experience sudden, costly IT difficulties, especially during periods of growth. See which technologies and practices you need in your repertoire.

It seems like cybersecurity is on the mind of company decision makers even more than usual. In light of the headline news of large-scale cyber attacks on US government bodies, many companies are taking the opportunity to re-examine their cyber security strategies, with many finding gaps that could potentially be exploited. More companies are shifting to remote work, putting employees outside of company firewalls and creating new targets for hackers. So what’s the solution to the myriad of security problems the average mid-size company faces?

3 Shocking Healthcare Business Associate Data Breaches Stories What the worst that could happen? 3 healthcare data breach stories aren’t for the faint of heart.

Outdated machines, software or employee practices can lead to major security problems. These big companies faced painful fines for their IT mistakes.

Technology moves fast and furiously. In this modern world, you need IT services for your business to run as smoothly as possible. The last thing any well-run company wants is for their IT issues to trip up working conditions so your employees are frustrated, and not being as productive as they should be. Ideally having the right technology in place can help your business to be more profitable in the long run. The question then becomes, is it better to have your IT department in-house or outsource those services? There are actually many terrific benefits to outsourcing your IT services to the right qualified professionals.

The top concern for CEOs today isn’t competitors or a recession — it’s cybersecurity. See why this is becoming the biggest challenge for an organization’s top executive.

Phishing scams — and, increasingly, spear-phishing scams — are the number one way that cyber hackers gain access to closed computer systems, steal information and money, and corrupt data.