“Before signing up for Paragon's managed services I was the IT
Admin at my company. Every week, valuable time was taken away from my
business by the day to day of managing the IT environment. Paragon's
network design and proactive approach to managing our environment has
drastically reduced the number of IT issues we experience, keeping us
placing candidates instead of dealing with computer problems. Treeline
is growing rapidly, and we trust Paragon to advise us on how to grow
our IT infrastructure with it”
Dan Fantasia
President & CEO
Treeline, inc.
“I was fortunate to have Ken and his team at Paragon supporting us
through some tremendous growth and change. Results were always on time
and under budget but more importantly the responsiveness and
interaction made us feel like their most important customer. Paragon
never failed to provide solutions when we needed them.”
Brian Murphy
VP Worldwide Sales
Nexaweb Technologies, inc.
Right Now, You Are Paying 90% of Your Employees an $8,600 a Year “Bonus” to Download Porn, Search for Another Job and Infect Your Network with Viruses!
What we are about to share with you may be hard to believe and even alarming, but I promise that every word of it is true. Just recently, we have seen a disturbing rise in the number of businesses suffering significant financial and productivity losses due to employees inappropriately using the internet and e-mail during work hours. What makes this situation so dangerous is that the majority of business owners don’t even realize that it’s going on until it’s too late. By then they have found themselves in the middle of a costly and embarrassing lawsuit or have to spend thousands of dollars to recover a network that has been severely damaged due to a virus.
Just Take a Look at These Alarming Statistics!
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73% of employees who use the internet are fully aware that they are consuming valuable bandwidth and hampering critical business activities with inappropriate internet usage – but do it anyway
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87% of all viruses enter a company network via e-mail. Employees using free web-based e-mail services like Hotmail and Yahoo can unknowingly introduce dangerous viruses by circumventing your company’s virus scanning software at the gateway
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70% of all internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-to-5 workday (SexTracker) and 27% of Fortune 500 companies have been accused of sexual harassment stemming from inappropriate e-mail and/or Internet usage. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that companies can be held accountable for their employees forwarding offensive messages and viewing pornography. For example, the Chevron Corporation was ordered to pay $2.2 million to employees over a joke e-mail which they considered offensive.
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Monitoring performed by the U.S. Treasury Department of internet use among Internal Revenue Service employees found that activities such as personal e-mail, online chats, shopping and checking personal finances and stocks accounted for 51% of employees' time spent online.
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31% of employees accidentally or intentionally send confidential information and trade secrets outside of their organization. The New York Times reported that the stock of Cerner Corp. dipped by 22% after a confidential e-mail from its chief executive chastising his managers was posted on a public site.
You don’t have to be BIG to be SECURE!
Small to mid-size companies like yours are more vulnerable to these threats because most don’t have the staff or in-house expertise to prevent such catastrophes. Our new Paragon Secure! service will keep you Safe, Secure, Spam free and ensure that your valuable and expensive bandwidth is being used to benefit your business. With plans starting as low as $75 a month, there is no reason for your business to suffer from security holes!