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AI Risk Starts Inside the Business: Part 1 of a 3-Part Series

AI risk is already inside most businesses. Employees are using unsanctioned AI tools, exposing sensitive data and trusting outputs that can be confidently wrong. This...

By: Chris Gross
February 3, 2026

Adopt AI In The Workplace to Build AI Culture For Your MSP

MSPs want to deliver AI services but often don’t know where to start. The answer is closer than they think. Before selling AI to clients,...

By: Chris Gross
January 27, 2026

Shadow AI: The Hidden Threat Inside Your Organization

Shadow AI is rapidly becoming the leading cause of corporate data leaks as employees use unapproved AI tools without oversight. Many leaders are unaware of...

By: Zach Morrison
January 21, 2026

Igniting Partner Growth in 2026

A new year is a new chance to rethink how you deliver value; not by adding more tools, but by helping people use the ones...

By: Zach Morrison
January 14, 2026

A Case Study on Dridex Banking Malware

A form of malware called Dridex is targeting finance employees at small to midsize companies. The criminals are sending emails with Microsoft Word and Excel...

By: Art Gross
November 4, 2015

Inside an SMB Hack

In a Verizon Data Breach Investigations Study, they found that 71% of breaches occurred in businesses with less than 100 employees. You would think that...

By: Art Gross
November 1, 2015

Ransomware using Remote Desktop to spread itself

According to an article over at SC Magazine, hackers are using brute force to crack their way into Remote Desktop / Terminal Servers and installing...

By: Art Gross
October 31, 2015

Employees are the biggest security threat

There is a very good article over at the Grand Forks Herald that makes a compelling case that employees are the biggest security threat a...

By: Art Gross
October 1, 2015

MSPs: If your client has a data breach they will blame you

As we talk to potential MSP partners and give presentations at ASCII and MAXfocus events, we are starting to hear a common message: I worried...

By: Art Gross
August 23, 2015

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

Changing our Attitudes About Password Security

Live and Learn Most situations teach us lessons so that we don’t repeat damaging behaviors. For example, if you touch a hot stove, you know...

By: Art Gross
August 29, 2019

Passwords: Why You Shouldn’t Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

The Excuses It’s not easy! It’s a lot to keep track of. I have no idea where I’ve used that before. There’s nothing in there...

By: Art Gross
August 21, 2019

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

Home Security

When establishing a safe environment at home, we put locks on the doors, latches on the gate, and home security systems that keep uninvited visitors...

By: Art Gross
December 7, 2020

Incoming Cybersecurity Leadership

Regardless of whichever way you lean politically, the recent announcement of a few incoming Presidential government staff appointments is hopefully good news to those who...

By: Art Gross
November 30, 2020

Lemons to Lemonade

Let’s try to make lemonade out of these lemons we keep getting with COVID-19. Yes, there is an uptick in the number of cases and...

By: Art Gross
November 23, 2020

Stimulus Scam

With the election season winding down, and a new administration announcing plans for the future, there will be another factor that contributes to the uncertainty...

By: Art Gross
November 17, 2020

Security Skill Shortage

As the need for cybersecurity awareness increases across the entire business landscape, so does the need for strong programs and a trained and competent workforce....

By: Art Gross
November 9, 2020