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You actually shouldn't have an IT team, at least according to the experts. In 2008, Nasstar CEO Charles Black predicted in ComputerWeekly that no one would have an IT department after 2013. Gartner jumped on this idea as well, predicting in 2005 that one in 10 IT departments would be "dead by 2011."

There are so many un-fun things about being an adult: being sleepy all the time, having to remind yourself not to ruin your appetite before dinner, and being responsible for your own professional advancement.

If you live in the United States, you can't turn on the news without seeing at least one story about how Facebook ads influenced the 2016 election. The U.S. isn't alone in its concerns about how the social media giant affects national and local politics. Countries including France, Canada, and India have threatened tighter regulations or outright bans on the company—especially during election cycles—if it doesn't create and enforce better information-sharing policies.

The popularity of cloud services continues to rise, and for good reason. Shawn Moore (CTO at web experience software company Solodev) sums it up nicely: "The cloud enables organizations to be more nimble and Agile in their planning, pay only for what they need, and scale easily as they grow."

UPDATE: This post was updated on 2/7/2018 to include more recent information and research on the network monitoring software market. Your network is one of the most important tools at your small business' disposal. If it goes down, your employees can lose access to important information. Your customers might not be able to use your website.

Think back to your school days. You're writing a paper in an offline word processor like Microsoft Word. It's due tomorrow, and you've spent all week working on it. Everything is perfectly worded, your points are supported by stellar research, and you just know you're going to get an amazing grade.

As someone who writes about the cost of cyberattacks and security breaches, I can confidently say that price should be a secondary concern when it comes to protecting your business' data.

Eighty percent of security leaders think their businesses will experience a cyberattack. As more companies migrate to the cloud and industry behemoths lose track of the vulnerabilities in their complex infrastructures, cybersecurity has become a hot topic.

So much of business these days is connected to technology that at this point, it's almost better to ask, "What isn't IT management?" Employees access your company network via your organization's computers. Customers find your business's information on your website. Clients, potential new hires, and visitors to the office need guest access to the internet. Hackers and cyber criminals must be kept at bay. The printer is, as always, jammed.