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Six Common IT Problems Challenging Small Businesses
Small businesses face many challenges, but your tech shouldn't be one of them! Cyber Ascend Technologies is your hometown team of tech experts here to help small businesses thrive! Whether the business is in Santa Cruz, Capitola, Watsonville, Salinas, or any other...

Cyber Ascend Technologies and the Dorothy Factor
Network infrastructure and cloud migrating and cybersecurity oh my! At the end of the iconic movie The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy realizes she has all the abilities to embrace what is essential to her. What is important… is home. With three clicks of her ruby slippers,...

Our Floods, Fires, & Earthquakes Are No Joke
Our Cyber Ascend Technologies team appreciates a good laugh as much as anyone. While fortifying local business needs to safe and secure data, we have replaced old legacy systems that business owners have described as being “truly a joke.” There is an old joke about...

Password Managers & 5 Reasons They Are Incredibly Helpful
How familiar are you with the "Forgot Password" button when logging into an online account? If trying to manage your passwords drives you crazy, you are not alone. Surveys have shown that at least 58% of computer users loathe using passwords and those who do use them...

Migrating Your PBX to a Microsoft Teams Phone System
“Come here—I want to see you,” were the first words uttered over a telephone line. After he said them, Alexander Graham Bell was thrilled that his assistant, Thomas Watson, showed up and reported that he had heard the command. As thrilled as Mr. Bell was at the time,...

Five Key Features Your Business Phone System May Be Missing
Is your business optimizing its phone system to its fullest potential? Or is your phone system falling behind in the rapidly changing remote world? CyAs Technologies prides itself on many high values and standards for our customers, so when implementing a new...

How Your Team Can Fight the Hackers
Fight Against Hackers & Protect Your Employees Here at Cyber Ascend Technologies, fighting is in our DNA! Some of our team members were volunteers to fight forest fires, but now we all work together to snuff out virtual disasters and help your team fight cyber...

Why Is Everyone Talking About How Magical Technology Helps Your Office Thrive?
Cloud Implementation Services Seem Like Magic Along with Other IT innovations There is an old saying that “necessity is the mother of invention.” In our IT-driven world, where businesses partake of partnerships from fully managed web hosting to cybersecurity, there...

Six Reasons “Legacy Systems” are the Money Pits of 2022- And How to Stop the Bleeding
We at Cyber Ascend Technologies are proud of our legacy as life and property savers. From our prior professional lives as trained firefighters, we carry that spirit forward into the IT lives of businesses in the Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, San Jose, Capitola,...

Why You, as a Solopreneur, Need Your Own Virtual IT Department
We at Cyber Ascend Technologies, your information technology support provider serving Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Capitola, Soquel, Aptos, Watsonville and beyond, love all our clients! However, there is one set of customers with whom we are especially popular. That...