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 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…
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Here’s a question I suspect most business owners haven’t thought about yet; If one of your team buys something inside an AI chat window… is that okay with you? Because that’s exactly where things are heading. You’re probably already familiar with tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT helping people write emails, summarize documents, or answer questions. The…
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Your Inbox Is Under Attack: What Every Business Needs to Know About Email Security Right Now Got the Monday blues? We can change that. Grab your coffee, settle in, and let’s talk about something that affects every single business that has an email address, which at this point is… everyone. Email security is not a…
The AI Arms Race in Cybersecurity: What Every Business Needs to Know Right Now Happy Friday! You made it to the end of the week, and we are sending you off with something worth thinking about over the weekend. If you have been paying even the slightest bit of attention to the tech world lately,…
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AI Readiness Is About Infrastructure. Are Your Clients Prepped? Not long ago, the “biggest risk” in a client environment might’ve been a rogue USB stick or someone trying to install LimeWire on a file server. Those days are over. We’re now in the era of shadow AI, where well-meaning employees try to “work smarter” by pasting…
When was the last time you saw one of those scary pop-ups claiming your computer was infected? You know the ones. They come complete with flashing red warnings and a fake phone number to “call Microsoft support”. It’s called scareware, and it’s designed to panic us into handing over money or access to our devices.…