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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

Don’t Let Your Holiday Get Hacked

Prices may go down over the holidays but hacking incidents go up. Way up. While online shopping is something we all need to be diligent...

By: Art Gross
November 22, 2019

Cybersecurity in the Legal Industry

Modern Law Cybersecurity is something you have to think about at the individual level. At the healthcare level. And at your place of business. But...

By: Art Gross
November 14, 2019

Election Season: Another Favorite for Scammers

Election season scams Political candidates will target voters to get their message across, and hackers will take advantage of the timing. With petitions, polls, and...

By: Art Gross
November 6, 2019

FBI Issues E-Skimming Warning

Skim This Over Recently the FBI issued a warning against e-skimming threats in response to the increase of attacks on small and medium-sized businesses, as...

By: Art Gross
October 30, 2019

Stripe Customers Targeted by Phishing Email

New Lures for Phishing A recent security alert from the online payment processing company Stripe has informed users of a phishing scam that shows just...

By: Art Gross
October 24, 2019

Twitter Unintentionally Used 2FA Info for Targeted Ads

There’s a tweet that has Twitter aflutter. It includes the news that Twitter inadvertently sent users’ email addresses and phone numbers that were provided for...

By: Art Gross
October 15, 2019

2019 Cybersecurity Checklist

By: Art Gross
October 10, 2019

The Little Things That Go a Long Way

It’s the Little Things When we think about cybersecurity, we might first imagine big data centers being guarded. Hackers working diligently in the shadows to...

By: Art Gross
October 8, 2019

Community Effort

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) division announced a final directive this week that requires all individual federal civilian...

By: Art Gross
September 7, 2020

End User End Game

The conversation around selling your services can get uncomfortable for a variety of reasons. We all have our own beliefs as to how we should...

By: Art Gross
September 2, 2020

Impersonation Nation

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is not a new term. BEC scams have been growing in popularity for some time now. If you’re not familiar with...

By: Art Gross
August 24, 2020

Dark Economy

“This pandemic is great for my business!” said very few people. Unless you’re a hacker. And then it’s likely that business is booming. We don’t...

By: Art Gross
August 17, 2020

Is Punishment Proper?

The emphasis on smart cybersecurity practices is vital. As professionals in the IT industry, we know this, we work to ensure policies and procedures are...

By: Art Gross
August 10, 2020