The unsanctioned use of generative AI services creates new security and compliance risks.
Cloud applications and services make it easy for users to explore new ways to do their jobs with improved speed, flexibility and efficiency. Unfortunately, they also make it easy to circumvent IT authorization, significantly increasing the risk of data loss and compliance violations.
What holds organizations back from achieving their objectives? What prevents them from developing innovative products, services or business models?
In many cases, employees are too plugged in to innovate. Always-on communication and a never-ending deluge of information leave them struggling to keep up with the pace of work.
The FBI has announced that it now has more than 7,000 decryption keys for the LockBit ransomware. Victims of a LockBit ransomware attack are encouraged to visit the Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov to obtain a decryption key for free. It could enable those organizations to recover their data, but sadly, it won’t make a dent in the ransomware scourge.
As of June 15, 2024, smaller reporting companies must comply with new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) breach disclosure rules. Under the rules, publicly traded companies must report a security incident within four days after determining it is “material.
Phishing is by far the most common type of cybercrime. According to Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) data, individual users reported almost 300,000 phishing and spoofing attacks in 2023, compared to fewer than 56,000 personal data breaches. Researchers with Zscaler ThreatLabz found that phishing attacks increased more than 58 percent in 2023.
A 2024 report by Egress found that 94 percent of organizations fell victim to phishing attacks in the preceding 12 months, and 96 percent were “negatively impacted” by those attacks.
A qualified MSP can provide an economical way to get the expertise of an experienced CIO.
Technology advances come with both opportunities and risks for small to midsize enterprises (SMEs). Artificial intelligence (AI) is a prime example. AI can enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, transforming operations and enabling the development of new products, services and business models.
Email scammers lure victims to click malicious links and open attachments that spread malware, steal credentials and enable financial crimes.
Modern security tools create a formidable defense against cyberattacks. However, many hackers ignore all that and target the weakest link in the security chain — people.
Hurricane season has arrived, and it promises to be active. The Colorado State University Tropical Weather and Climate Research Team has predicted 23 named storms, including 11 hurricanes and five major hurricanes. The researchers use historical data as well as weather models to make these predictions.
Organizations expand geographically for many reasons, whether to tap into new markets, better serve existing customers, gain needed skill sets, or take advantage of lower real estate or labor costs. An organization’s geographic footprint can expand quickly due to mergers and acquisitions, and more and more employees are working remotely in home-based offices that become an extension of the business.
Microsoft 365 licensing has always been complex. It just got more complicated.
On April 1, 2024, Microsoft unbundled Teams from its M365 and Office 365 licenses worldwide. The company had already removed Teams from its subscriptions sold in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland in response to a European Commission investigation into anticompetitive practices.
