Prevention is NOT Preparation [PART 3]

May 29, 2025

Prevention is NOT Preparation Failing to prepare is preparing to fail-being a casualty is avoidable It’s not if, it’s when - prepare for the when Spend equally between prevention and preparation React (fear/panic) vs. Respond (logical, planned)   Think Preparation ...

The Anatomy of a Cyber Attack, an Act of War [PART 2]

May 29, 2025

Bycatch Everything gets caught, Hackers sit and plan for 200 days   This is an Act of War Armed = technology hacking tools and AI Mortality = A business death Weapons = the tools being deployed   Check out all 3 ...

The Cyber Security Eco-System - Statistics & the Reality of the Situation [PART 1]

May 29, 2025

Sobering Statistics: 88% of attacks are human error 43% of attacks are small/medium sized businesses 60% of business go out of business within 1 year 16.5 billion US loss in 2024 from Cyber Crime (12.5B in 2023)   The Reality ...

#568 ITNation Grow: 🏆 Tom Hermstad-Water Polo, Leadership & MSP Growth Strategies

March 18, 2025

Really enjoyed recording this podcast with Joey Pinz chatting about cybersecurity, business growth, and leadership. From the early days of managed services to navigating today’s cyber threats, sharing what MSPs must do to stay competitive and secure. 💡 Top 3 ...

Pricing in the Managed Services Industry

March 14, 2025

  (Video Below)   Tom Hermstad with H&D Technologies here, here to talk about a taboo subject, pricing in the managed services industry.   When you're going to get a contract to maintain your computer systems, how do we price? ...

Problems with the MSP Industry

March 6, 2025

  (Video Below) Here with you today to talk about another taboo subject, which is, what are the problems with the managed services industry and these things that I'm going to relate to come from me actually talking with prospective ...

Why We Do What We Do

January 30, 2025

Although we do a lot of fixing broken printers and helping people with outlook problems, that is not what gets me up in the morning. Nope. I mean, we have to do it, but that's not what gets me going ...

2025 Top Things to Think About

January 23, 2025

Being prepared, we have a saying at H&D Technologies, It's not if it's when if they want to get to you they will. So what you do is you prepare for that eventuality of when they get in, what are ...

Tech Hiring Risk

January 15, 2025

Hey, Tom Hermstad with H&D Technologies here to give you another little tech vlog from H&D we call it. And I've been doing a number of different vlogs on the technical hiring process you need to be thinking about when ...

Hiring Internal IT Staff - Technical Expertise

December 1, 2023

Hi, this is Tom Hermstad with HD Technologies. This is the hiring internal I.T. series. And this is the second part in the series, and it's about technical expertise and competency as it relates to hiring the engineer. Then on ...