Phishing scams are one of the biggest security threats to your business right now. A massive 83% of organizations said they suffered successful attacks last year. And with just under a third of phishing emails being opened, the chances that someone in your business will be fooled are high.

A situation where an organization can have a combination of both internal IT employees and a Managed Service Provider that is cheaper and more effective (and secure) then an exclusive use of either. There are 3 types of Co-Managed IT service agreements organizations can enter into.

But have you stopped to consider the downside to remote working? The negative elements for your business and your people? While many employees are happy to work from home using video calls and collaborative software to stay connected, there’s a small percentage who find the whole experience isolating.

Hi there – Patti here. I head up the Sales and Marketing activity at Simplex-IT and I’m starting my own monthly update for ya. So, let’s get to it!

As you push your business towards increased growth it means planning ahead more than ever before. Industry experts expect the shortage to last into next year… and it could be even longer.

On July 5, in court, Travelers said it would not have issued a cyber insurance policy to an electronics manufacturing services company if they knew the company was not using MFA as it said. Recently that company suffered a ransomware attack.

SSL certificates are important in IT. You go visit a web site and you want to know it’s safe. That the owner is who they say they are. The data on the site itself is secure and it’s not a fake site created by a bad actor.

The simple answer is that computers aren't perfect. The bad guys are using low-tech emails from using common email addresses from a legit email provider like Gmail or Yahoo.

Remote and hybrid working is now normal for a lot of people. But a recent survey has found that, despite it being more than two years since many of us were forced to work from home, too many businesses still don’t have the right cyber security measures in place for those away from the office.

Silo IT is a form of IT services or support, usually as part of a Co-Managed IT relationship. The Internal IT folks of your organization might be doing a splendid job, but there’s this one thing they just don’t handle.

This past month our Technical Director Kevin Dutkiewicz and our Security Tsar Adam Evans went down to Orlando for the IT Nation Secure conference presented by ConnectWise. This conference focuses on cybersecurity in our slice of the technology world. We’ve asked them to share some of the fun and talk about what they took away from the event.

Microsoft’s decided to retire and rework an AI tool that could not only recognize our facial features, but also identify our mood. Azure Face is an emotion recognition tool. These are highly criticized by experts who believe they violate human rights. Microsoft has just published the updated version of its Responsible AI Standard.

It’s no secret that some applications are a little too interested in us and what we’re doing. We’ve all had this experience. You might be talking to a friend about a new product that you’d like to try. Or perhaps you’ve discussed somewhere you’d like to visit. Then the next time you go online you see adverts for the exact things you were talking about.

Hello, I am Kurt, a senior network engineer at Simplex-IT. In this blog, I will be discussing the 3 different types of clouds: public, private, and hybrid.

A recent report found that each one of your employees could be losing up to 80 hours each year, thanks to filtering and deleting spam emails. That’s a LOT of lost productivity.

The joke is that the cloud is somebody else’s computer. Actually, the cloud is taking the server in your office and migrating it to a resilient data center…

When you’re browsing it can feel like you’re being bombarded with things other people want you to see. Not only do we have to click on permissions for cookies and tracking, but now a lot of websites ask for our permission to send us notifications. And while many of these notifications are harmless – news updates, latest recipes, product releases – sometimes they can be outright spam.

So let’s talk about accounting and we’ll then get to cybersecurity.

Back in 1929 we had the great depression and it was great. One of the things that really came to light was that it was caused by faulty manipulative reporting practices and businesses. Businesses weren’t being safe, weren’t being cautious, they were extremely vulnerable and they were caught.

It feels like every day we’re being warned about a new threat to our cybersecurity, doesn’t it? That’s for good reason. Last year, ransomware attacks alone affected 81% of US businesses. And the cost of cyber-crime is estimated to hit $10.5 trillion by 2025, according to the ‘2022 Cybersecurity Almanac’. But we’re still seeing far too many businesses that aren’t taking this threat seriously.

We love to talk details, because it’s how we think in IT. Heck, it’s how we’re paid to think because details is where it’s at. But discussing those complex issues to someone who doesn’t have the background? Or interest? Or, most importantly, the need to understand to the level we do?

So if you’re in the IT field, learn to communicate better. And start by picking up these 3 explanation devices: similes, metaphors and analogies.