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AI Starts at Home: Why MSPs Need Internal Adoption Before Client Services

MSPs want to offer AI services, but most don’t know where to start. The answer is inside your own team. Before guiding clients, you need...

By: Chris Gross
December 2, 2025

How BSN Training is Transforming the Way MSPs and Organizations Work

Cybersecurity isn’t just about protection, it’s about potential. At Breach Secure Now, awareness training is driving real productivity gains. In fact, 92% of BSN users...

By: Zach Morrison
November 24, 2025

IT Nation Connect Takeaways: AI Is Here to Stay and Many MSPs Don’t Know Where to Start

Many MSPs walked away from IT Nation Connect excited about AI—but unsure where to start. Here’s a practical breakdown of why MSPs feel stuck, the...

By: Chris Gross
November 18, 2025

Cybersecurity Stories: When Your Boss Isn’t Really Your Boss

When an employee joined a video call with their company’s CFO, everything looked normal, until it wasn’t. In one of the most bizarre cybersecurity stories...

By: Zach Morrison
November 12, 2025

Strengthening Cybersecurity: A Collective Responsibility

Cybersecurity is a critical component of business operations and the responsibility of the business and the individual. A recent breach involving TeamViewer's employee credentials underscores...

By: Art Gross
July 5, 2024

The Impressive Impact of AI in Action

The consulting firm PwC rolled out ChatGPT to all of their employees. The goal was to use the tools on themselves before helping clients implement...

By: Art Gross
June 28, 2024

Unveiling AI Training: A New Era for MSPs

BSN is excited to introduce a groundbreaking suite of AI training courses designed specifically for MSPs to offer to their SMB clients. This initiative promises...

By: Art Gross
June 21, 2024

Security Awareness & AI Training Reduces Breach Risk

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unique challenges and opportunities today with the threat of cybercrime and the rise of artificial intelligence. Training employees in...

By: Art Gross
June 14, 2024

BSN Launches Innovative AI Training Solutions for MSPs

In an exciting development for the cybersecurity and productivity training industry, Breach Secure Now (BSN) has announced the launch of its new Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

By: Art Gross
June 7, 2024

AI & MSPs: Defining Your Role in the AI Revolution

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it's a present-day reality transforming industries worldwide. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are uniquely positioned to lead...

By: Art Gross
May 31, 2024

Artificial Intelligence: Leadership Messaging

We continue the conversation regarding Artificial Intelligence and how important it is for executive leadership to embrace AI and convey that value to their team...

By: Art Gross
May 24, 2024

AI In Workplace Challenges

Microsoft and LinkedIn released their joint Work Trend Index "AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part" which explores the significant impact of...

By: Art Gross
May 17, 2024

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

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

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

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

AI-Powered Scams

The proliferation of scams and frauds leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to deceive unsuspecting individuals and organizations is, as expected, on the rise. As an MSP,...

By: Art Gross
June 23, 2023

The Danger of Disinformation

Disinformation refers to intentionally false or misleading information spread through various mediums, including social media, websites, and online forums. Its primary objective is to manipulate...

By: Art Gross
June 16, 2023

FBI Cyber Division Issues PSA

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a crucial Public Service Announcement (PSA) highlighting the growing concern of malicious cyber actors using deepfake technology...

By: Art Gross
June 9, 2023

Industry Events and Building Relationships

The success of any organization can heavily on the strategic relationships it forms. Within managed IT services, the partnership between a vendor and the Managed...

By: Art Gross
June 2, 2023

Reinforcing Cybersecurity Habits & the Dark Web

As an MSP it is crucial to continually emphasize to your clients the importance of understanding the dark web. It is important to educate what...

By: Art Gross
May 26, 2023

Voice AI: A New Frontier for Cybercrime & Security

The rise of voice artificial intelligence (AI) has captured our attention and transformed the way we interact with devices. Voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and...

By: Art Gross
May 19, 2023

Risk Factor Reminders

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are always at risk to be a target for cybercriminals. And many still believe that their business is "too small"...

By: Art Gross
May 12, 2023

Healthcare Cybersecurity

As a Managed Service Provider (MSP), your healthcare clients rely on you to ensure their IT systems are secure and compliant with regulations. With the...

By: Art Gross
May 5, 2023

Employee Buy-In for Security Awareness

Every Cog in the Wheel Matters Whether your name is on the sign out front, or you are in a leadership role, the success of...

By: Art Gross
May 14, 2019

Senior Executives Pose a Danger to Cyber Security

You Can’t Teach an Old Dog…. or Can You? I remember trying to explain a VCR to older relatives. It wasn’t that they were less...

By: Art Gross
April 19, 2019

Employees: The #1 Cause of Data Breaches

As the multi-billion-dollar industry of cybercrime continues to thrive, employees remain the number one cause of cyber attacks. Despite cybercriminals relentlessly targeting and attacking organizations...

By: Art Gross
October 11, 2018

Business Email Compromise Scams – Here to Stay

Business email compromise (BEC) scams remain one of the most widely used attack vectors among cybercriminals to date. In fact, cybercriminals are finding so much...

By: Art Gross
October 2, 2018

Dark Web Breach Assessment 2.0 Launched

Known for its anonymity, the Dark Web is a dangerous portion of the internet only accessible by using a special browser. This “secret spot” of...

By: Art Gross
August 15, 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

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

How Does the Dark Web Impact Small Businesses?

Identity theft is an unfortunate occurrence that is all too familiar with most business owners, but do those individuals know where the compromised data will...

By: Art Gross
February 28, 2018