Cyber Defence 101: Choosing Your IT Partner

FREE eBook on how to quality check an IT Service Provider before letting them into your business

How to choose the best IT partner to support your information security

The world of Information Security can seem like it’s deliberately confusing. As a bonus for signing up for our free print newsletter, you’ll get our latest eBook, Cyber Defence 101: Choosing Your IT Partner, for free!

This is THE business owner’s guide to finding professional, competent, honest, considerate, on-time, fairly priced and dependable IT service. Read this eBook and discover:

  • The scary truth about cybercrime and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.
  • Critical questions to ask your next IT company to make sure their policies, procedures and protocols won’t leave you stranded.
  • The REAL cost of hiring a bad IT company or person.
  • The most common mistakes made when choosing an IT company.
  • The various types of technical support contracts you’ll be presented, and the pros and cons of each.
  • What you should expect to pay for IT services.
  • Everything you need to know about contracts, payment schedules and rate negotiations.

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A headshot of Scott Birmingham, C.E.T., C.I.M., who is the Principal Consultant at Birmingham Consulting

About the Author

After seeing the general apathy of IT service providers, Scott Birmingham founded Birmingham Consulting Inc. (BCI) in 2009 with the goal of applying the engineering principles used by high-value manufacturing industries to deliver IT services.

With this focus on uptime and risk mitigation, his Canadian company, BCI, became an early adopter for delivering cyber security as part of their managed IT services. As his cyber security expertise deepened over the years, he also broadened BCI services to include information security as a whole, including compliance.

Now, BCI is streamlined to be 100% dedicated to information security; with a focus on delivering virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) services, Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS), and Defense-in Depth (DiD) information security services.

Scott has a passion for protecting the information assets of Canadian companies and helping them comply with the security standards relevant to their business.