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Local IT Firm Enhances Cloud Phone System Capabilities

Accent Computer Solutions, Inc., a leading IT service and support provider in Southern California, announced today that it has been named to Penton’s Technology’s global MSPmentor 501 list for the fifth year in a row. 

Accent Computer Solutions, Inc., a leading Southern California information technology (IT) consulting and cloud services provider, announced today that it has been named to After Nines Inc.’s ChannelE2E Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs list.

Accent Computer Solutions, Inc., a leading information technology (IT) support and managed IT services provider in Southern California, today announced that it has been named to CRN's 2017 Managed Services Provider (MSP) 500 list.

Accent Computer Solutions, Inc. Is Honored To Be Named One of the Top 200 U.S. Microsoft Partners

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA--(Marketwired - December 29, 2016) - Accent Computer Solutions, Inc., a leading information technology (IT) support and managed IT services provider in Southern California, today announced that it has been named one of Microsoft's Top 200 U.S. Partners by Redmond Channel Partner (RCP) magazine, a publication focused on driving success in the Microsoft Partner community.

This is the first annual list of its kind. RCP put this list together to help businesses figure out which are the best IT companies in their area when they search for a new IT consultant.

Accent Computer Solutions, Inc. Is Honored To Be Named A 2016 Top Workplace By The Press-Enterprise

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA (December 5, 2016) — Accent Computer Solutions, Inc., a leading information technology (IT) support and consulting company in Southern California, has been awarded a 2016 Top Workplaces honor by The Press-Enterprise.

He was a happy man. He ran a good business in a nice place. His Atlanta-based LabMD had about 30 employees and tested blood, urine and tissue samples for urologists. Life was good for this middle-aged businessman from Detroit.

Then, one Tuesday afternoon in May 2008, the phone call came that changed his life. His general manager came in to tell Daugherty about a call he’d just fielded from a man claiming to have nabbed a file full of LabMD patient documents. For a medical business that had to comply with strict federal rules on privacy, this was bad. Very bad.

What if you could tap into the top talent in your industry, no matter where in the world they are? With the power of the mobile web, your all-star team is now – literally – at your fingertips.

“I’m not going to make payroll – we’re going to close our doors as a result of the fraud.”

Unfortunately, that statement is becoming more common among smaller businesses, according to Mitchell Thompson, head of an FBI financial cybercrimes task force in New York.

The FBI reports that since October 2013 more than 12,000 businesses worldwide have been targeted by social engineering–type cyberscams, netting criminals well over $2 billion. And those are just the reported cases. Often, due to customer relationships, PR or other concerns, incidents go unreported.

These unfortunate events were triggered by a particularly nasty form of cyberattack known as “social engineering.”

It’s one of those little secrets that nobody wants to talk about…

The term “Shadow IT” refers to apps and devices used at work that operate outside your company’s sanctioned policies and protocols.

Shadow IT takes many forms, like conversations on Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, Gmail or Skype. It can include software from Excel macros to cloud-based data storage apps such as Dropbox, Google Docs and Evernote. Or collaboration spaces like Slack, Asana and Wrike. And then there are devices: USB sticks, smartphones, tablets and laptops within your network that you have no control over.

Robert J. Moore, CEO of RJMetrics, relates how companies like Slack and Dropbox craft their pricing models to encourage rapid proliferation. One day, a few of his engineers were using Slack, then all the engineers, then the whole rest of the company was using it. He said, “We reached a point of no return and paying for it was pretty much our only option.”