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The majority of modern cyberattacks begin with some form of user manipulation, usually through phishing messages that trick recipients into acting against their own security. While these can be shared in any form, the most well-known is certainly email.

Let’s review a few warning signs that can help indicate that an email message is, in fact, a phishing scheme.

For most small and medium-sized businesses, scheduling is a constant frustration. Balancing business needs with your employees' lives—like Jack’s daughter’s recital or Stef’s morning errands—feels like a losing game.

The good news? With the right strategy and a few modern tools, you can make scheduling easier for everyone.

The foldable market just took its biggest leap yet. There have been all types of form factors, but following years of book-style foldables, Samsung has finally released the Galaxy Z TriFold. This device isn’t just a phone that gets slightly wider; it’s a full-scale 10-inch tablet that folds into a standard 6.5-inch smartphone.

Today, we thought we would go through some of the features and benefits of Samsung’s newest smartphone innovation.

In late February, data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional suffered a data breach in which the threat actor responsible used an unpatched application to access the company’s Amazon Web Services infrastructure. While LexisNexis L&P claims the data leaked was minimal, this breach still serves as an important reminder of a critical security principle:

If a company as large as LexisNexis L&P can fall victim to such a simple vulnerability, what’s to say your business won’t?

We used to say change is constant. Now, change is a sprint. We are witnessing a massive shift in how fast the world moves, and it’s not just your imagination—human progress has hit the gas pedal.

Technologies aren't just appearing; they are crashing into each other and maturing so quickly that the "next big thing" is often replaced before it’s even fully installed. This isn't a random spike; it’s the result of three massive forces hitting their stride at once.

No matter how you look at it, there will always be a significant difference between a data backup and a successful recovery. Businesses are too often under the impression that they are one and the same, but this is a faulty belief that puts them at risk. If you back up your files to the cloud, your business needs a way to recover those files, and fast. Otherwise, downtime ensues, and you don’t want that.

If your best defense against cybersecurity threats is to hope your business is too small to target, we’ve got news for you. That’s no cybersecurity strategy, and hackers don’t care how big or small your business is. All they care about is the value your data presents, and let’s be real, that’s a lot.

It’s smart to be skeptical these days. Between the constant buzz about AI and gadgets that promise the world but deliver very little, you don’t want to waste time chasing every shiny new object. Your goal is simple: run a business that is stable, profitable, and efficient.

The good news is that you don't need a computer science degree or a massive budget to make modern technology work for you.

Does your business still rely on the physical server closet? This space is essentially a physical anchor that requires dedicated cooling, constant hardware monitoring, and a team ready to handle any issues with the machines themselves, making it perhaps the most expensive real estate you own for your business. More agile businesses are forsaking the server closet in favor of a solution that doesn’t require a physical footprint: the cloud.

Hardware procurement is often the invisible ceiling that halts your company’s growth. If you’re in a time of rapid expansion, the traditional way of buying technology—researching specs, waiting for shipping, and manual setup—is going to hold you back from taking meaningful action. In other words, you don’t have the luxury of waiting three weeks; you need to make things happen now.