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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

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

It’s time to rethink employee security training

Data breaches dominate the news headlines. Whether it is the Home Depot, Target, Staples, Anthem or the Ashley Madison breach. Every day a new company...

By: Art Gross
September 13, 2015

Breach Secure Now! Rolls Out an Unlimited Clients IT Security Training Program for MSPs

MORRISTOWN, NJ (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 08, 2015 Breach Secure Now! has lowered the barriers to increased IT security sales for MSPs by introducing Unlimited Clients Employee...

By: Art Gross
September 8, 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

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

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