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Making AI ROI Measurable: A Practical Approach That Works

Every client asks: "What's the ROI of AI tools?" Fair question. But here’s one back: When did you last calculate the ROI of Excel? Or...

By: Art Gross
August 20, 2025

AI Awareness Training: The Trojan Horse That Opens the Door to Bigger AI Conversations

Security Awareness Training (SAT) gave MSPs a way to introduce cybersecurity without needing to be security experts. It was simple, valuable, and easy to explain....

By: Art Gross
August 12, 2025

From Microsoft 365 to AI: Using What You Know to Guide Clients

The Microsoft 365 analogy that makes AI adoption finally make sense. Many MSPs tell me: "I don't feel ready to talk AI with clients. I'm...

By: Art Gross
August 7, 2025

The ‘AI Intern’ Mindset: Helping Your Clients Adopt AI Effectively

Want to know the simplest way to explain AI to your clients? Stop talking about "generative AI" or "large language models." Instead, say this: "Think...

By: Art Gross
July 31, 2025

Businesses are not prepared for cyberattacks

An article in Forbes discusses the risk of cyberattacks on businesses. Many companies are unprepared to prevent a cyberattack. Yet many are still ill-prepared for...

By: Art Gross
July 22, 2015

More proof that hackers are going after SMBs

Large scale data breaches such as Target and Home Depot make the news but smaller organizations are victims of data breaches as well. The problem...

By: Art Gross
June 11, 2015

SEC Investment Management Division Issues Cybersecurity Guidance

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Investment Management has issued cybersecurity guidance (PDF) to registered investment companies ("Funds") and registered investment advisers...

By: Art Gross
June 10, 2015

A look at how hackers create spear phishing emails

Spear phishing emails are highly effective and have been the cause of many successful hacking attempts. Unlike a regular phishing email that could be sent...

By: Art Gross
May 9, 2015

Survey: Companies worried about disclosure of PII

A survey by Mayer Brown shows companies consider the disclosure of PII the biggest cyber related threat. Survey respondents overwhelmingly considered the disclosure of personally,...

By: Art Gross
April 14, 2015

Cyber risk the most serious threat to business, says Lloyd’s chief

The CEO of Lloyd's of London, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, says that cyber risk is the most serious threat to...

By: Art Gross
April 8, 2015

Managed Security Services Market to Reach $32.9 Billion in 2020

Market intelligence from ABI Research estimates the current global market for managed security services will be around $15.4 billion by the 2015. They state that...

By: Art Gross
March 28, 2015

Excellent Insight: The Dangers of Public WiFi

An article over at medium gives excellent insight into the real dangers of open public WiFi. After reading this article you will never use a...

By: Art Gross
March 26, 2015

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

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

Don’t Forget Me

It is easy to get left behind if you become less interesting. No, we aren’t talking about your friends or your childhood toys, although that...

By: Art Gross
August 3, 2020

Scare Tactics

It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone that cybercriminal activity has surged in 2020. By May of this year, the number of reported...

By: Art Gross
July 27, 2020

Before & After

Imagine if you had two emails that were worth a million dollars each. You would do everything that you can to protect those emails and...

By: Art Gross
July 20, 2020

Marketing Magic

Marketing Magic Having an in-house marketing team is not always possible for small businesses. Also, it can be difficult to maintain an ever-growing and ever-changing...

By: Art Gross
July 13, 2020

Changing Landscape

We all knew that the world was going to be forever changed when the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic earlier in 2020. Just...

By: Art Gross
July 6, 2020

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