The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act usually doesn’t apply to a car dealership that arranges financing or leases vehicles, because it exempts Gramm-Leach-Bliley financial institutions as whole businesses. The FTC Safeguards Rule and Texas breach law still apply. Saturday afternoon at a store off I-45. A couple is in the F&I office signing a … Read more
Moving from CDK to Tekion replaces your DMS, but it doesn’t end the phone and network agreements that may have come with it. Those run on their own contracts and dates. The switch is the right moment to re-bid phones, circuits, and network support on their merits. Nobody puts the phones on the go-live checklist. … Read more
An MSP runs a dealership’s day-to-day IT: the help desk, network, PCs, printers, and backups. An MSSP watches for cyberattacks around the clock from a security operations center. Most stores need both jobs covered, by people who actually talk to each other. The letters are the easy part. One extra S, and it stands for … Read more
Remote branch IT support for a truck dealership is a remote help desk that fixes most problems from a distance, spares and a documented network closet staged at the branch, and a field visit only when the fix needs hands. Some truck branches are a steel building, a gravel lot, and an exit ramp. Three … Read more
Remote IT support fixes a dealership problem over the phone or a shared screen, and onsite IT support sends a technician into the building. Most tickets close remotely. A dead switch, bad cabling, a down circuit, or a broken printer needs hands on site. It’s 7:20 on a Saturday morning and the service drive is … Read more
A multi-location truck dealership network ties parts, service and sales at every branch to one DMS. One standard build, backup internet, SD-WAN, segmentation.
Root cause analysis in IT means finding out why a problem keeps happening instead of only getting the user working again. At a dealership, it’s the difference between resetting the same locked DMS login every Monday and finding what keeps locking it. Every service desk has a few tickets that come back like regulars. The … Read more
A Tekion go-live timeline runs about 120 days. The dealer’s IT tasks, week by week: network, cabling, devices, printers, integrations, training rooms.
Auto dealership cybersecurity news for October 2026: a German dealer software breach, an exploited VPN flaw, a record Microsoft patch month, and what to check.