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Join Community IT Innovators’ CTO cybersecurity expert Matt Eshleman for a video discussion of the 10 free cybersecurity risk-management tools available to nonprofits that want to increase security. Matt covers free tools that your organization should be using, how they operate, how to set them up, and how to train your staff to USE them.   He also spends time discussing three security tools to pa...

In this “Ask the Experts” webinar co-presented with Build Consulting , we answer your questions on ways to create a sound process for software selection, before you consider the specific technologies available to meet your organizational needs. Join Build Consulting co-founders Kyle Haines and David Deal   as they leverage their combined 70+ years in nonprofit technology projects to answer your qu...

We know that account compromises are one of the top 5 threats facing nonprofit organizations, and are perhaps the most impactful. Digital credentials, such as usernames and passwords, connect you and your employees to critical business applications, as well as online services. Unfortunately, criminals know this — and that’s why digital credentials are among the most valuable assets found on the Da...

In this webinar we include an outline to create or update a security policy; how to address levels of access, confidentiality, emails, passwords, and 2-step authentication; and policies for securing staff devices whether yours or theirs. The Community IT Innovators approach to Security includes basic steps you can easily follow. This video covers creating Written & Updated Policies , using Pre...

Community IT presents a discussion of basic IT cybersecurity training for nonprofits’ end users. Learn about common threats and the best techniques for dealing with them. Learn how to balance convenience and security for your staff, so they can follow best practices and be your best defense against hackers and cybercrime. Lots of organizations are rethinking working from home, secure collaboration...

Community IT Innovators was pleased to collaborate with our partners at Build Consulting for this webinar. In a special, half-hour format Build shares their expertise in information management, beginning with a fifteen minute definition and overview of the basic challenges. Partner Peter Mirius takes questions from the webinar participants and addresses real world situations throughout the webinar...

Are you utilizing SharePoint best practices? Are your staff frustrated by your protocols, or are they whizzing along collaborating with ease and speed? Do you have any files shared in SharePoint that need extra security?  Please join our resident expert Steve Longenecker to walk through what SharePoint can do for your nonprofit. If your nonprofit is already using Office365 in the cloud for email,...

Do you have more staff working from home? Wondering about the cybersecurity of your Office 365 set up? In this podcast you will learn how to secure Office 365, troubleshoot the set up, how to communicate with your staff, essential security measures you expect them to take, and how to effectively share common hacking scenarios they can prevent. In January 2020, Microsoft removed the 50 donated nonp...

What is a Technology Roadmap? All nonprofit organizations stand to benefit from an improved technology environment. But does your organization’s technology roadmap provide you with the directions you need to succeed with those new and improved technologies ? You may have gaps in leadership, operations, business process, and data management capacity that have prevented your organization from effect...

Making the move to a platform like Microsoft Dynamics or Salesforce can fuel your nonprofit’s digital transformation. These platforms allow you to manage and engage with constituents in new ways, create more unified experiences for them, and transform how your organization works. But do you know where your organization should start when choosing a technology platform?  Kyle Haines , Partner at Bui...

This webinar presents a best-practices framework on assessing your risks, using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) privacy risk assessment methodology. Matt Eshleman, Community IT Innovators’ CTO and resident cybersecurity expert, will teach you how to Understand the cybersecurity threats facing nonprofits perform a basic assessment using our NIST survey tool understand the...

Learn what questions to ask a managed service provider to get the best service for your organization. “Managed services” can mean different things to different people, especially when you are just embarking on a quest to find a provider. To understand what you need, what a provider is offering – and whether they’ll be able to deliver – Community IT Innovators developed a list of basic questions to...

CEO Johan Hammerstrom and experts Johanny Torrico (COO) and Steve Longenecker (Director of IT Consulting) discuss tech tips to support nonprofits going back to the office or continuing to work remotely. Many nonprofits are considering or in the process of reintegrating back into their physical offices. With the sudden shift to working from home, many organizations scrambled to put tools and system...

Community IT was pleased to partner with Peter Mirus and David Deal at Build to present a webinar on technology leadership best practices . Technology leaders at nonprofit organizations come in all sorts and job descriptions, according to the resources and the needs of the organizations they serve. Some organizations have a CIO, others an IT Director, and sometimes a Finance, Operations, Administr...