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Helping Clients Navigate AI-Powered Business Email Compromise: Turning Risk Into Readiness

By: Art Gross
April 25, 2025

Ensuring AI Readiness with AIRIA: A Roadmap for MSPs

Explore how AIRIA enhances AI readiness for MSPs. Discover the transformative benefits of integrating generative AI with our webinar. Boost productivity and strategic alignment for...

By: Art Gross
April 10, 2025

The Rise of AI in Cybersecurity: Opportunities for MSPs

Learn how MSPs can harness AI Awareness and Security Awareness Training to protect and empower their clients against sophisticated cyber threats. Discover the unique opportunities...

By: Art Gross
March 20, 2025

MSPs Are Succeeding in Staying Ahead of Client Expectations by Leveraging AI Awareness Training

Businesses are rapidly adopting AI, but many lack the training to use it effectively and securely. Learn why MSPs should offer AI Awareness Training to...

By: Art Gross
March 13, 2025

Phone-Based 2FA: Not so Secure After All

In a time where data breaches have become the norm, there is no such thing as exercising too much caution when it comes to protecting...

By: Art Gross
August 3, 2018

Exactis Database Leaks 340 Million Records of Personal Data

There is a good chance you’ve never heard of the major marketing and data aggregation company Exactis, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know you....

By: Art Gross
July 30, 2018

Ransomware wreaks havoc on towns across the U.S.

Ransomware should be a concern for everyone, from small businesses to large corporations, although the likelihood of suffering from an attack may be dependent on...

By: Art Gross
July 16, 2018

Security Awareness Training – Time to Jump on the Bandwagon

Human-error; we talk about it all the time, but what exactly do we mean? Human-error occurs when an individual performs a task or does something...

By: Art Gross
June 10, 2018

Infographic: 10 Cyber Security Predictions for 2018 – Is your IT/OT Network Ready?

By: Art Gross
March 25, 2018

NY DFS Enforcing Cybersecurity Requirements

If you are a New York Financial Services organization and have not complied with the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) Cybersecurity Regulations (23...

By: Art Gross
March 5, 2018

Infographic: SMB Security Checklist

By: Art Gross
March 3, 2018

Small Business Cyber Security: The Ostrich Effect

The following blog first appeared on the Secure ERP blog. It is reprinted here with permission. Some small business owners will realize I’m describing them...

By: Art Gross
March 1, 2018

Evil Twin Wi-Fi

Evil Twin You’re out and about for any number of reasons. Traveling for work. Killing time while waiting for co-workers or family members. But you...

By: Art Gross
January 16, 2020

Overnight Experts Wanted

It isn’t breaking news that there is a steady - and alarming - rise in cybersecurity breaches and overall compromises in data and hardware. What...

By: Art Gross
January 10, 2020

A Quick Glance Back – the Year in Cybersecurity

Nothing Random in this Ransom The end of the year always gives one reason to reflect back and review the past 12 months in a...

By: Art Gross
December 31, 2019

Smart Speakers, Are You Listening?

Alexa, What Are You Collecting? At the top of many holiday gift lists was a smart speaker device. They can make our life easier and...

By: Art Gross
December 27, 2019

The Rise in Cryptojacking

You can teach your clients how to spot a phishing email and hope that they take heed. You can warn them about the dangers of...

By: Art Gross
December 19, 2019

Getting Ahead of the Curve

Plan, people, policies Under the guidance of Maria Vullo, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) created and finalized cybersecurity regulations for the banks,...

By: Art Gross
December 11, 2019

All Jolly, No Folly

Some of us attack and engage in our holiday shopping with a plan that rivals the most well thought out strategies. We scour weekly fliers,...

By: Art Gross
December 5, 2019

No Personal Callers

If your phone rings and the caller id is UNKNOWN, you likely won’t answer. And scammers know that, so they’ve been cleverly hiding behind fake...

By: Art Gross
November 26, 2019

Safe Voting

There’s a lot to talk about in the political world right now. In the United States, we’re on the cusp of a huge election and...

By: Art Gross
November 3, 2020

Vote for Cybersecurity

No, this is not a political post. In fact, we know that there are some topics that don’t even merit an effort to try to...

By: Art Gross
October 26, 2020

Smart Appliances & Cybersecurity

And so, the season starts. Which one is it that we’re referring to? Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Prime Day…all of these sales tend to lean...

By: Art Gross
October 19, 2020

We Don’t Negotiate

The United States government has been known to take a stand of ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’ when it comes to discussions of ransom. Whether...

By: Art Gross
October 12, 2020