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Phishing Email Awareness: 5 Critical Things Your Employees Must Know to Stay Secure
Phishing Email Awareness is one of the most important cybersecurity skills your employees can master. With phishing attacks becoming more sophisticated each year, a single click on a malicious link can compromise your business’s data, reputation, and bottom line. In fact, according to the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), phishing remains one of the most common and damaging cyber threats in the world. The good news is that awareness can dramatically reduce risk. By teaching your team how to recognize and handle phishing attempts, you can [...]
Beware of Phishing Scams Left in Voicemails
Phishing attacks are one of the most common security threats to your business, not only because they are effective, but because they can be utilized in many different ways. You can become the victim of a phishing attack through email, instant message, phone, or even your voicemail. These “phoicemail” attacks are quite crafty in their approach, and you should be wary of them. What is a Phoicemail Scam? To understand the phoicemail scam, one must first understand what deepfakes are. These deepfakes are artificially generated footage of [...]
How to Use Technology to Bring In (and Retain) Talented Employees
As helpful as technology is to optimizing what your business can accomplish, this kind of optimization relies equally on the people you have working there as well. This starts with hiring the right people, which means you first have to attract the right people. Let’s talk about how your business’ IT can help to make your business more appealing to talented potential applicants. First of All, Better Technology Leads to a More Attractive Workplace—and Therefore, More Effective Recruitment Let me ask you this: would you rather work [...]
Tip of the Week: Improving Business Productivity in Five Ways
“Improving productivity” is far from an unheard goal among business owners. What is less common, unfortunately, is a strategic plan to actually do it. We wanted to help, so we’ve assembled five strategies that can help improve productivity in the modern workplace. Incorporate Employee Wellness into Their Benefits Package It isn’t exactly breaking news that people who feel better tend to perform better in the workplace, in terms of both their physical health and mental well-being. Research has concluded as much, demonstrating evidence that the healthier the [...]
Are You Equipped to Handle Your Compliance Needs, Regarding Cybersecurity?
Regulations and compliance standards are in place for effectively every industry to uphold, many of which address cybersecurity in some way or another. Let’s talk for a moment about why compliance to these standards is of the utmost importance for your organization. Before we address anything else, let’s go into why these compliance standards exist in the first place. Why am I Beholden to Meeting Set Cybersecurity Standards in My Business? Like many of the standards and regulations that so many industries are required to meet, put [...]
How to Get the Most Out of Your In-House Computing
More businesses than ever before are making adjustments toward a more digital business involving more complex and sophisticated technology, making more reliable and efficient IT of paramount importance. There are benefits to outsourcing your IT resources, but there are also times when you might consider hosting your infrastructure in-house. Let’s go over the benefits and how you can benefit from a mixture of in-house and outsourced IT. Customization Options When you host your own IT infrastructure in-house, you get exactly what you want, as you are the [...]
How to Encourage Collaboration By Using the Right Technology
Collaboration is a key part of effective business processes. Nowadays, there are many, many technologies available to facilitate the level of collaboration that today’s organizations strive for. Let’s explore some of the options you have to implement technology that inspires your team to work as one, cohesive unit and accomplish your shared goals. Let’s begin by touching upon why it is that collaborative work has become so important. There Are Many Reasons Businesses Should Strive to Be Collaborative The benefits of cooperative work are varied and wide-reaching, [...]
Can You Get By with Consumer-Based Software?
Your business runs on software, whether it’s the systems you implement to get work done or the customer relations management software you use to communicate with the consumers of your goods or services. You’d be hard-pressed to find a business that doesn’t rely on software in some capacity, so it’s not a stretch to say that your business is only as effective as the solutions you implement. That said, some software is designed with business in mind rather than for individual use, which makes sense when you [...]
