Think about all the online accounts you have, from social media to banking to email. With so many accounts, it's imperative to make sure they're secure. Creating a strong, unique password is one of the best and easiest ways to protect yourself from hackers. Listed below is how you can create passwords that are hard to crack and keep your digital life safe.
While email attachments are a huge part of your digital life, they're also a favorite sneaky entry point for hackers, viruses, and scams. We've all been there, a quick click before we even think. That split second of laziness can turn into a massive headache for you and your whole job.
Before you tap that little paperclip and potentially wreck your day (or your company's network), you need to take a beat. Listed below is an essential checklist for safely opening files sent via email.
Pop culture has given us a vivid, if often frightening, impression of artificial intelligence. When we hear AI, many still picture calculated malice: a HAL 9000, a Skynet, or an Ultron.
The real potential of AI is far more productive; it's less about calculating world domination and more about becoming your organization's most helpful collaborator. Think of it as a JARVIS for your executive team or an R2-D2 for your operational staff: a powerful tool that assists your team in generating ideas, solving complex problems, and completing high-volume tasks. Critically, maximizing this potential doesn't require new hardware; it requires sharpening the very soft skills we already value in our top performers: curiosity, empathy, and resilience.
What goes through your head when you hear the words “IT audit?” Are you concerned about your business’ deepest and most shameful technology secrets being exposed, or are you excited about the opportunity to resolve issues that you might not even know exist? We hope you have the latter mentality, as it’s the appropriate one, especially if you want to build a business that stands the test of time.
It’s convenient for employees to reuse passwords just to make things easier for themselves; why use different passwords when you have a dozen accounts to remember passwords for? Alas, this habit will come back to bite you, especially if your business is ever involved in a data breach. These credentials could end up for sale on the dark web… and that’s just the beginning of your problems.
Starting a business requires a certain mindset, one that demands a certain disdain for failure. However, this entrepreneurial mindset might actually hold you back from seeing success with your business’ technology. This month, we want to explore how the same mindset that has allowed you to build your business to where it is today is actually getting in the way of effective technology implementation, as well as what you can do about it.
Business is already complicated enough without having to remember all of your passwords. Alas, logins and sign-ons are a necessary part of operations, and without them, work isn’t going to get anywhere. However, there is a solution to the problem of having too many accounts with too many unique credentials, and it all starts by asking a simple question.
If you run a business you know that downtime is a problem, not just an inconvenience. That's where failover comes in. If you've ever wondered how major websites and services seem to stay operational even when something goes wrong, failover is a key part of the answer.
The cut, copy, and paste commands are some of the most frequently utilized keyboard shortcuts in the modern office, but do you actually understand how they work? They make use of the clipboard, but not many people know what the clipboard is or how it functions. Listed below: the demystification of the clipboard and how you can make better use of it on your Windows device.
When was the last time you gave the time of day to your business’ phone system? The Internet has mostly made traditional telephone solutions obsolete, yet countless businesses still cling to them for dear life. However, dismissing the importance of the telephone as a way to connect with your customers would be foolish, so our focus today is how businesses like yours can implement phone solutions that leverage the good while eliminating the bad.
Imagine that a small business, maybe even one of your neighbors, just poured thousands of dollars into the latest and greatest security software and firewall system. You’re impressed… until a disgruntled employee walks in one night, nothing to stop them, and takes a hammer to the server they have behind an unlocked door.
Suddenly, there’s one less small business, and there was nothing that expensive security software could do about it.
While still imperative to get right, passwords aren’t nearly as secure as you would expect them to be. They can be guessed (especially if proper password practices haven’t been followed), stolen in data breaches, or phished from a well-meaning employee.
Passwords are essentially the lock built into the front door of a building. They’re enough to keep out honest people, but what about the people who are willing to go to the deep web and 3D print the master key to the type of lock you use?
Did you know that during World War II, Allied codebreakers didn't only crack the German Enigma code with pure math? They also used clever tricks, like baiting the Germans into sending predictable messages, to expose the machine's inner workings. History proves this approach worked then, and, unfortunately, continues to work now.
This art of manipulating a system to reveal its secrets has found a new, high-tech home in the world of artificial intelligence. It's called prompt hacking, and it's basically a form of digital social engineering aimed directly at the AI models businesses are starting to rely on.
We’re all about proactive business technology support, which means we’re always on the lookout for tools that help you work smarter, not harder.
Listed below is a step-by-step guide to creating your first Google Form:
Are you making the most out of every single mouse click you make? The navigation peripheral has a lot of hidden functionality that you may not realize exists. Listed below are some of the ways you can make each mouse click matter just a little bit more, as well as how you can utilize these tricks to save a little time and be a bit more productive.
Your company's relationship with IT has a direct correlation to how well it operates. If your technology fails, your business suffers productivity losses, as well as financial ones due to decreased reliability in the eyes of customers and clients. One of the best ways to ensure you’re following through on the promises you make to your customers is to implement a proactive IT strategy to replace the reactive approaches seen in the past.
It's a familiar challenge for businesses: how do you build customer loyalty and a strong user experience while also ensuring that their data is protected? Sustainable success depends on mastering this delicate balance. Instead of choosing one over the other, the goal is to optimize data protection without hindering your ability to engage customers and drive growth.
Disruptions, from natural disasters to cyberattacks, can hit any business. A strong business continuity plan (BCP) is essential to protect your organization, employees, and customers. It’s an investment that helps you handle the unexpected and get back on your feet quickly.
Listed below are the vital dos and don'ts for building your plan.
Running a business can feel like a constant battle against inefficiency. There are innumerable reasons an organization doesn’t meet productivity standards. Fortunately, however, technology offers powerful tools to identify and eliminate these issues. Listed below: how you can utilize technology to find and fix inefficiencies in your business.
Here’s a challenge: go to any cybersecurity news website and see how far you can go before seeing an article about some new type of ransomware attack. It’s everywhere, and it’s scary, but that doesn’t mean your organization has to cower in fear. With the right tools and resources at your disposal, you too can fight back against ransomware. Listed below is how you can protect your business from ransomware and the threats it poses.
