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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

Study finds that 30% of SMEs lack an incident response plan

Cybersecurity issues have become very prevalent in the modern era, making headlines with their disasters and fines associated with them. While it may seem obvious...

By: Art Gross
August 24, 2017

Article: What Happens When Your Small Business Is Hacked

By: Art Gross
August 14, 2017

Don’t count on getting your data back even if you pay the ransom

Ransomware, a popular form of a cyber-attack usually involves criminals tricking their victims into installing malware. The malware causes serious issues for its victims by...

By: Art Gross
May 18, 2017

Is the massive global cyberattack enough to get people to care about their online security?

A major cyberattack took the world by storm Friday, hitting 150 countries and affecting 200,000 computers and over 20 hospitals in the U.K. This attack...

By: Art Gross
May 17, 2017

Are hackers the new pirates? Billionaire superyacht owners can be held to ransom

Cybercriminals have no boundaries when experimenting with ways to successfully carry out a cyberattack. We have seen these criminals prove time after time just how...

By: Art Gross
May 11, 2017

Couple loses their new home to email hackers

We’ve all heard of hackers going extreme lengths to steal information from their victims, but just how far will they go? A couple from North...

By: Art Gross
May 10, 2017

New Mexico, Tennessee and Virginia Pass New Data Breach Legislation

Three States Pass New Data Breach Legislation With data breaches increasing drastically across the United States, the need for states to have appropriate data breach...

By: Art Gross
April 25, 2017

Ransomware Increasingly Targets the Little Guys

Identified by the U.S. Department of Justice as 2017’s “biggest cyberthreat”, ransomware is making a name for itself across the board. While you may think,...

By: Art Gross
April 19, 2017

Secure Now! and Trusted Metrics Webinar

We are excited to announce a webinar with our technology partner Trusted Metrics. The webinar is geared towards MSPs and will provide insight into monitoring...

By: Art Gross
March 26, 2016

Free Wi-Fi is hard to resist for most people

In this "always connected" society being without Wi-Fi and Internet access makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Many people have heard about the dangers of...

By: Art Gross
February 28, 2016

Free Security Training = More Security Sales

The following article appeared in ChannelPro Network Want to increase the number of security solutions your clients purchase? Give them something of value up front...

By: Art Gross
February 16, 2016

Top 5 Cyber Risks for Businesses

Travelers Insurance put together the top 5 cyber risks for businesses. There are no surprises in their list. They not only look at each risk...

By: Art Gross
January 22, 2016

NYT: No Business Too Small to Be Hacked

The New York Times has a very good article titled: No Business Too Small to Be Hacked. We have been saying for the past few...

By: Art Gross
January 15, 2016

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

Why Cyber Insurance?

Filing and Smiling When is the last time that you filed a piece of paper? It used to be that a file cabinet was like...

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

The Real Cost of Cybercrime

What happens if your computer systems are hacked with ransomware? I think I’m covered by my insurance policy for that…(pause)…you scramble and try to find...

By: Art Gross
August 12, 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