With news breaking re: Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) and exploitation attempts becoming widespread, MSPs and IT teams have been working nonstop to scope their exposure, scan for potential IoCs, apply mitigations, and patch.

NinjaOne released our custom field functionality in 2021, adding a new level of flexibility, customization, and automation power to our platform. Custom fields are an advanced feature that requires set up to use, but once you start, the power and flexibility of this feature is almost limitless. In part one of this guide, we’ll walk you through two powerful use cases for custom fields in NinjaOne.

Any MSP owner or IT director knows the pain of losing valuable institutional knowledge. While often overlooked, strong IT documentation can be the difference between hours, potentially days, of downtime and a smooth operation. To avoid these costly missteps, IT pros are increasingly turning to IT documentation software to help document, standardize, and use contextual information about their IT environments.

Today, NinjaOne, a unified IT operations platform for MSPs and IT departments, has introduced new image backup capabilities to Ninja Data Protection, the company’s natively developed backup and disaster recovery solution. Additionally, the company is now offering Ninja Protect, a new bundled security product with BitDefender to improve users cybersecurity standards and resist ransomware.

In 2010, American Express® launched #ShopSmall, the first national campaign to promote and support small businesses. The campaign culminates with Small Business Saturday, observed yearly on the day following Black Friday, a day that is classically a high traffic day for shoppers to spend big with corporate retailers. NinjaOne prides itself on being a vendor with small business roots, having started with humble beginnings and being led by a team of independent IT leaders.

Coming into the new school year, school IT leaders are experiencing many of the same challenges that other industries have faced since transitioning to remote and hybrid models. Most notably, an ever-growing number of devices, SaaS applications, and hybrid- or multi-cloud environments has strained a largely decentralized approach to IT management that simply can’t keep up with the demands of a modern organization.