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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

Private Sector Security

Can I Get Some Privacy in Here? If you’re talking about your online data, probably not. While businesses can create policies and procedures that limit...

By: Art Gross
August 14, 2019

Ethical Hacking

The Ethics of Hacking In 2013 the then National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander spoke at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference about acknowledging, and protecting,...

By: Art Gross
August 7, 2019

Make Time for Cybersecurity

This isn’t something you can pencil in and get to when you have time, cyber maintenance has to be something you commit to. We all...

By: Art Gross
July 17, 2019

Think Global, Act Local

When Global News Hits Home When you hear and watch news headlines, you can often tune out. It’s not happening here; it’s not affecting you...

By: Art Gross
June 25, 2019

The Future Is Here

Sunday funnies Remember the Jetsons? Robots that cleaned, food choices you tapped into a computer for preparation…moving sidewalks? Flying cars aside, we aren’t too far...

By: Art Gross
June 21, 2019

Casting a Wide Net

In business, if you can cast a bigger net to reach a larger audience, it’s considered a good idea – a win. Unfortunately, hackers are...

By: Art Gross
June 11, 2019

Addressing the Vertical – Cybersecurity in All Directions

And So, It Grows First, it was a widespread, if not generic, notion – you need to protect your personal information. Then we began to...

By: Art Gross
June 5, 2019

First Aid Kit

When this pandemic hit the world, the realization that most countries were not prepared for this also hit hard at the same time. Here in...

By: Art Gross
May 19, 2020

Microsoft Teams & GIFs

“Why do I always have to update my software?” “What is a patch update and why is it so important?” As an MSP, you know...

By: Art Gross
May 11, 2020

Navigating Uncertain Times – Tips from Experienced CEOs

Small Business, Big Problems There is a multitude of problems that small businesses are facing today. Clients are working from home. This is happening as...

By: Art Gross
May 8, 2020

MSP Guide to Remote Security

A New Normal Working from home has become a new normal for you, your customers, and communities across the country, with dining room tables and...

By: Art Gross
May 4, 2020

Small Business Exposure

When you’re a small business, you hope for exposure. But recently, we learned that the Small Business Association (SBA) was the victim of an incident...

By: Art Gross
April 29, 2020