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QR Code Scams: What They Are and How to Protect Your Business
Article Summary: A QR code scam, sometimes called quishing, hides a malicious web link inside a QR code. Because the link is buried in an image instead of written as text, it slips past the email filters that normally catch bad links, and scanning the code usually moves the victim onto a personal phone that…
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How Small Business Ransomware Attacks Work (And How to Protect Against Them)
Small businesses are the most common ransomware target by volume of incidents, even though many small business owners assume hackers focus on larger organizations. A 22-person company has enough revenue to be worth attacking, no dedicated security team to defend it, and a publicly traceable footprint that takes about an hour to research. What follows…
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How to Answer Cyber Insurance Renewal Questions Without Voiding Your Policy
If you have a cyber insurance renewal coming up, the application is probably longer than the one you filled in last time. It’s also more specific. Each new question maps to a control that, if missing, allowed a major 2023 or 2024 claim to escalate. The wording reflects how carriers responded to losses they paid…
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Is Your Smart Office a Security Risk? What Small Businesses Need to Know About IoT
Your office thermostat, conference room speaker, and smart badge reader are convenient, but they’re also doors into your network. With more devices than ever in play, keeping track can be tough, and it only takes one weak link to put your entire system at risk. That’s why smart IT solutions matter now more than ever.…
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Invest Smart, Grow Fast: Your Small Business Guide to IT Expense Planning
Without realizing it, technology can drain your business budget. One day, everything seems manageable, and the next, you’re left wondering where all these unexpected costs are coming from. Expenses pile up quickly and become tough to track. Whoever said running a business would be easy? Here’s the good news: you don’t need to spend thousands…
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Data Quality is Your Small Business’s Secret Weapon
Nobody builds a house on a weak foundation, so why operate your business based on unreliable data? According to research, bad data costs US firms over $3 trillion every year, and roughly 40% of company goals fail as a result of inaccurate information. Data is everywhere, and if you are not utilizing it to your…