Three anonymized cases: real ransomware incidents in Q1. In the first three months of the year, ransomware assistance requests we received were up nearly 40% versus the second half of last year. Most companies’ IT leads instinctively say “our firewall was expensive,” but on site the problem often lies with the weakest link. **Case 1: A precision manufacturing company in Shunyi** had just deployed an MES system before the New Year. Attackers exploited the system’s def…

A full comparison of four options: traditional SSL VPN, Tailscale, ZeroTier, and the domestically developed sTrust zero trust solution. Annual cost from RMB 7,000 for a 30-person company, with MLPS 2.0 (China’s Multi-Level Protection Scheme) compliance.

Real IT bills from 12 Beijing SMEs: a 30-person company spends RMB 90,000–100,000 a year on IT. A detailed look at 5 common pitfalls, a comparison of 3 service models, and IT all-in-one packages at RMB 1,999–9,999/month.

Bandwidth demand curves: those moments of “sudden” surge. In Q4 2024, while delivering IT Operations Outsourcing services to a medical device customer in Shunyi, we ran into an interesting phenomenon: their gigabit network had run for a full year with utilization never exceeding 40%, yet after a new ERP system went live in early December, the core switch began raising frequent alerts within the first week. This is not an isolated case, but rather what most enterprises face when upgrading their networks…