It’s September which means we’re almost to the fourth quarter where most businesses look ahead towards end of year activities, it’s not unusual for us to see an increased interest in locking down new equipment and upgrades before year end.

Each year we begin promoting the benefits of Section 179, you can learn more about it in our updated guide for 2023 or continue reading.

Last week a Danish cloud provider called CloudNordic suffered a cyber attack that led to them losing all of their customers data in one fell swoop.

The hackers who gained access to CloudNordic’s system immediately issued a financial demand that the company was unable and unwilling to meet and led to all of their data being encrypted by the hackers.

If you’re running a business in 2023 you know that having an online presence is often the key to growth (and if you need advice on that we’ve written about it before), but how much of your workflow is presently in the digital workspace?

We still see plenty of businesses that are still working off pen and paper, eschewing digital files for a wall of file cabinets and communicating via fax rather than email (did you know that you can receive fax via email now)?

There’s nothing wrong with being old school, but it can slow down the kind of progress you’re hoping to make with your business.

If you’re not familiar with Discord, it’s a chat service that first opened to the public in 2015 and quickly grew in popularity having a base of 3 million users just one year later in 2016. Now in 2023 there are over 150 million users, and the platform has been valued at $7 billion.

BEC or Business Email Compromise is a type of phishing scam where the target of the scam receives an email purporting to be someone they know, like a vendor they work with or a colleague. These scams are so common place that the Federal Bureau of Investigation even has a guide to protecting yourself from them.

Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are quickly approaching their End-of-Life date of October 10, 2023. This is just over 2 short months away and in the world of data migration (especially as it relates to servers) that doesn’t give you a lot of time if you’re still using this operating system in your business.

What comes to mind when it comes to viruses and malware and how they infect a device?

Most of us think of someone accidentally downloading an infected program from an email or website, which we’re sorry to say doesn’t always end in the much maligned and feared .exe.

Have you been working on strengthening your cyber security stack in your business or crossing your fingers and hoping for the best? How much protection is really enough?

There are a lot of remedies for improving cyber security out there, but which ones present the best value for your business, and what constitutes a “zero trust” environment?

If you’re just starting out, these 10 items will greatly improve your business’s cyber security safety in a short amount of time (we call these “best practices”):

Use multi-factor authentication.

News about the Twitter rival, Threads, exploded last week as 100 million people signed up so far just as Twitters traffic plummeted from recent changes.

Twitter announces that the number of tweets that users could view would go from infinite to a set amount depending on the type of account you have.

The US State Department’s “Rewards for Justice” program announced a 10 million dollar bounty for any information leading to clues on how the Clop ransomware attacks are linked to attacks on foreign governments.

Announced via Twitter, the Rewards for Justice account tweeted "Do you have info linking CL0P Ransomware Gang or any other malicious cyber actors targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to a foreign government? Send us a tip.