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The Five Dimensions of AI Readiness: Understanding the Risks that Impact AI Adoption

AI adoption is not just a technology challenge. It is a readiness challenge. Discover how the five dimensions of AI readiness help organizations identify adoption...

By: Zach Morrison
July 21, 2026

What Is the AI Culture Assessment? A Smarter Starting Point for Responsible AI Adoption

AI is already showing up in the workplace, but many organizations lack visibility into how it is being used. The AI Culture Assessment helps MSPs...

By: Zach Morrison
July 14, 2026

Phishing Tests Aren’t Enough: Why Remediation Is the Missing Link in Security Awareness

Phishing simulations show who clicks, but without follow-up, they rarely change behavior. Phishing remediation closes the gap by turning failures into learning opportunities, reinforcing training...

By: Zach Morrison
July 8, 2026

Why Continuous Training Beats One-and-Done Cyber Awareness

Cyber threats evolve constantly, which means annual cybersecurity training is not enough to keep employees prepared. Learn how continuous training, phishing simulations, remediation, and short...

By: Zach Morrison
June 30, 2026

Tax Refund Scams – Know What to Look For

Tis the season! You’re making mental plans with what is hopefully a generous tax refund and deciding what to do with the surplus of cash...

By: Art Gross
April 5, 2019

The State of Compliance

We are all aware of federal compliance regulations when it comes to the privacy and security of our information. For example, you’d be hard pressed...

By: Art Gross
March 27, 2019

How to Create an Incident Response Plan

Data breaches are extremely common as technology continues to advance. Of those breaches, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are a favored target for cybercriminals. In...

By: Art Gross
March 20, 2019

Fake Check Scam

Being scammed can happen so easily today, but when you make it about a topic that many people can let their guard down with, the...

By: Art Gross
March 13, 2019

But You Changed Your Password – So How Did This Happen?

Anna Jones is an employee of Your Financial Services, Inc. and has used LinkedIn since 1996. It’s been a great tool for listing her employment...

By: Art Gross
March 1, 2019

Sextortion Scam

You get an email or text from what seems to be a legitimate email or phone number. Then you read the message: “Send bitcoin right...

By: Art Gross
February 22, 2019

You Can Have My Heart – Not My Wallet

Love is in the air, and many people are turning to the internet to find it. We all know someone who has met their significant...

By: Art Gross
February 14, 2019

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

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 See PII Disclosure as Top Cyber Threat

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

Managed Security Market to Reach $33B 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

Smart Speakers, Are You Listening?

Alexa, What Are You Collecting? At the top of many holiday gift lists was a smart speaker device. They can make our life easier and...

By: Art Gross
December 27, 2019

The Rise in Cryptojacking

You can teach your clients how to spot a phishing email and hope that they take heed. You can warn them about the dangers of...

By: Art Gross
December 19, 2019

Getting Ahead of the Curve

Plan, people, policies Under the guidance of Maria Vullo, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) created and finalized cybersecurity regulations for the banks,...

By: Art Gross
December 11, 2019

All Jolly, No Folly

Some of us attack and engage in our holiday shopping with a plan that rivals the most well thought out strategies. We scour weekly fliers,...

By: Art Gross
December 5, 2019

No Personal Callers

If your phone rings and the caller id is UNKNOWN, you likely won’t answer. And scammers know that, so they’ve been cleverly hiding behind fake...

By: Art Gross
November 26, 2019

Don’t Let Your Holiday Get Hacked

Prices may go down over the holidays but hacking incidents go up. Way up. While online shopping is something we all need to be diligent...

By: Art Gross
November 22, 2019

Cybersecurity in the Legal Industry

Modern Law Cybersecurity is something you have to think about at the individual level. At the healthcare level. And at your place of business. But...

By: Art Gross
November 14, 2019

Election Season: Another Favorite for Scammers

Election season scams Political candidates will target voters to get their message across, and hackers will take advantage of the timing. With petitions, polls, and...

By: Art Gross
November 6, 2019

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