Convenience does not overrule common-sense and industry standards By Charles Parker, II In IT, convenience has taken much more of a focus as of late. Businesses don’t upgrade or update for a number of reasons. The user’s requests or “requirements” are being used as an example and may state this is needed for their respective role, regardless of how many times the subject matter is used per month or quarter. At best, the rationale for these tends to be shallow and not well t

Drones and Small Business Cybersecurity By Carolyn Schrader Drones are being used for many creative tasks. They are now used to deliver packages and take-out. Pizza express, anyone? Cowboys may no longer need to ride the fence to look for damage. A rancher can send a drone with instant video and GPS details to the ranch house. Repairs can be schedule efficiently. Farmers can send a drone over their fields to look at crop growth and water levels. They can then remotely turn

Hacking Continues to Follow Economic Models By Charles Parker II In economics, there are the basic supply and demand curves. As these move up or down, and left or right, dependent on the circumstances, the price point changes. For instance, as the supply increases, the price decreases. This has been occurring with the price of healthcare or medical records. When the healthcare industry began to be targeted more than others, the attackers saw this as an opportunity to genera

Think Twice Prior to Connecting Your Smartphone to Your Vehicle By Charles Parker II Most people are affected by connected vehicles in some form or another. This may take the form of the user driving their car to the grocery store or to work, the cabs driving people home, the rental vehicle from the airport, a driver using the map function in the infotainment center, and buses being driven through the suburbs and city. Most of these vehicles being seen every day are connected

Select small business audiences need focused cybersecurity training By Carolyn Schrader Now that everyone in your company has participated in basic cybersecurity awareness training and your IT people have done several phishing email exercises, it might be time for you to consider focused training for select employee audiences. Hackers continue to get more sophisticated, so your training needs to continue to expand. Nigerian payment scams still exist, but new innovative scam