Is your company looking to hire an IT firm? Unfortunately, unless you’re tech-savvy or experienced with IT contracts, there can be hidden costs that you wouldn’t expect or know to look for. While it can sound appealing to go for the cheapest firm, that decision can end up costing you more in the long run due to carve-outs and hidden fees in the contract.

Long gone are the days when phones were simple devices used to make calls. Today our phones are advanced, handheld supercomputers that can do everything from pay a bill to order lunch for delivery to edit videos and more.

But with more capabilities come more risks.

The year of 2023 marked a significant turning point for cyber-attacks with the introduction and wide proliferation of AI (artificial intelligence), now in the hands of people who wish to do you harm and who are actively using it to find faster and easier ways to rob you, extort you or simply burn your business to the ground.

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It happens all the time: A coworker gives you a quick workaround for a long-winded procedure, or friends offer cool new applications to try, or we download new browser extensions based on good reviews from other customers.

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Ransomware steals and encrypts files, and refuses to give you the decryption key until you pay a steep fee. Often, the bad actor refuses to return data regardless of whether you pay; and sometimes they even charge a second “double extortion” fee to prevent them from publishing all the stolen data online.

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Data loss can happen to anyone, at any time. It can be caused by a hardware failure, software corruption, malware attack, fire, theft, or simply human error. Backing up your data is a crucial practice to protect yourself from these events.

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Are you the Chief Information Security Officer at your organization?

CISOs are a very important part of an organization’s cybersecurity and -compliance stack. When there is a role dedicated to ensuring that everyone else follows the necessary rules and best practices to keep private data protected, there chances of someone breaking into the system go down significantly.

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Have you heard about Okta?

Even if you haven’t, you still might have been affected by the large-scale breach on their systems which rocked the tech community on 19 October, 2023.

Okta is a third-party service which provides companies, like your own for example, with multi-factor authentication and other secure biometric identification and single sign-on tools.

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Have you hopped full-force onto the bandwagon of artificial intelligence?

AI is smart; it has advanced far beyond the chatbots of the 2000s and can now generate new recipes, write songs, and give you background information about any subject in the world.

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You may know that certain web browsers provide better privacy against trackers and spies as you search online. Others may work faster but run programs in the background that you don’t even know about.

Just like you need to do research before choosing the right web browser for you, it’s just as critical to remember: Some search engines will track you around the web.