Data breaches are always a potential problem. They can cause all types of problems inside your business and can even cause strife should your customers need to be notified. In today’s blog, we thought we would review some of the largest and most noteworthy breaches in 2024.
When you think about it, the technology we have today is truly awe-inspiring, simply because it enables us to be so much more productive as we exercise our creativity. All one really has to do to prove its value is to compare the quality of life we enjoy now as compared to almost any time in the past.
However, this does not mean that everyone is using technology to its full capacity and, as a result, suffering some consequential effects. Let’s consider some of these effects to reinforce why it pays to embrace the potential uses of technology fully.
It’s easy when things are going well to ignore the annual IT health check, but that doesn’t make it any less important. Today, we’re sharing a 15-point IT infrastructure health check to keep your technology working smoothly so your business can continue operations. We’ll cover everything from zombie software licenses to expired warranties and aging hardware.
For a long time, one of the best practices for phishing prevention has been to pick up the phone and call up the person apparently sending a message. Unfortunately, in some cases, phone calls are now being exploited.
Now, AI enables scammers to mimic the voices of the people they impersonate through voice cloning. As a result, it is more important than ever to verify who you are talking to before sharing any sensitive information.
Want to hear a secret? Despite all the buzzwords and jargon, cybersecurity has a pretty simple foundation… one that many professionals refer to as the CIA Triad (unrelated to the intelligence agency). Its three pillars—Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability—serve as the three critical sides of the cybersecurity triangle. If any fail, the whole of your systems are at risk.
Let’s go over what makes up each side.
If you ask ten different IT guys to define "the cloud,” you’ll probably get twelve different answers involving scalability, elasticity, and other buzzwords that don't actually help you run your business on a Wednesday morning.
Let's strip away the jargon. The cloud isn't some magical, invisible ether. It’s essentially just entrusting someone else—usually a massive corporation like Microsoft, Google, or Amazon—to manage the physical computer for you.
Instead of having a humming, heat-generating server box locked in your broom closet, you’re renting space on a much more powerful, much more secure server in a data center somewhere else.
Digital accessibility makes technology usable for everyone, helping employees stay productive and giving employers access to more talent. Microsoft Word includes a built-in Accessibility Assistant to help you easily create inclusive documents.
Think of it like spellcheck, cranked up to 11, intended to ensure as many people as possible are able to access the information you’re trying to share.
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