Financial institutions simultaneously deploy many different technologies, all of which must run smoothly and securely in order to best serve customers and protect their data. But for many community banks, holding on to staff who are equipped with the expertise and ability to manage these various systems is a difficult and expensive task. It’s true: finding qualified IT employees is challenging. The nationwide IT unemployment rate remains low at 3 percent, according to the Tech Trends Q3 2015 report by Dice, a career site for technology and engineering professionals. But a deeper drill reveals the unemployment rate for some IT specialties sits as low as .3 percent. Fortunately, Citizens State Bank in Luling, Texas, decided years ago that a third-party managed services provider could h

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