Kendall Friel writes RJ2's cybersecurity and IT articles, turning what the engineering team sees every day into something a business owner can act on. She holds a BBA in Marketing from the University of Iowa. Kendall writes on threat awareness, security hygiene, and the practical side of protecting a small or mid-market business.
Happy Thursday! Before you head into the long holiday weekend, let us talk about something quietly lurking in your office that most businesses completely overlook. No, it is not that old laptop in the supply closet. It is every single device connected to your network that nobody is actively managing. Welcome to the Internet of…
Happy Wednesday! Today we are diving into something that is keeping security professionals up at night and catching business owners completely off guard. When You Cannot Trust Your Eyes or Your Ears Remember when spotting a phishing email was straightforward? Look for poor grammar. Check if the sender’s address is slightly off. Be suspicious of…
Let’s be honest. Most business owners did not start their company because they love managing technology. They started it because they love what they do. And somewhere along the way, IT became a job within the job. The Break-Fix Era Is Dead For a long time, the standard approach to IT for small businesses was…
Happy Friday! You made it to the end of the week. Let’s close it out with something that has been on the minds of nearly every business owner and IT leader we talk to: moving to the cloud. Is Cloud Migration Still a “Should I?” or Has It Become a “How Do I?” Not too…
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Got the Monday blues? We can fix that. Let’s talk about something that frustrates nearly every employee in every office but rarely gets the attention it deserves: network performance. The Hidden Tax on Your Business Here is a number that might surprise you. Employees lose an average of 30 minutes per day waiting for slow…
Happy Wednesday! Mid-week is the perfect time to look up from the day-to-day and think about the bigger picture. And right now, the biggest picture in business technology is artificial intelligence. We Are Past the Hype Cycle A few years ago, AI was a buzzword that meant different things to different people. It was the…
We get it. “Zero Trust” sounds like the name of a spy thriller, not a business technology strategy. But stick with us, because understanding this concept could be the most important thing you do for your company’s security this year. The Old Way of Thinking About Security For decades, the standard approach to network security…
Happy Monday! Let’s kick off the week by talking about something that could save your business from a very bad day. The Uncomfortable Truth About Small Business Cybersecurity Here is a stat that should stop you in your tracks: 43% of all cyberattacks target small businesses. Not Fortune 500 companies. Not massive government agencies. Small…
Shadow AI: The Silent Data Breach Nobody’s Talking About Why Your Employees Are Turning Company Secrets into Public Information (And How to Stop Them) The Crisis Nobody Sees Coming Last week, a developer at a mid-sized tech company pasted proprietary source code into ChatGPT to debug a function. Five minutes of saved time. Two years…