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Until now, one of the easiest ways to spot a phishing email has been spelling or grammatical errors — but ChatGPT has changed all that. With the popular AI-driven chatbot spinning out prose faster than you can say “write my term paper,” everyone now needs to be suspicious of even the most well-written emails. ChatGPT’s ability …
If your company has been relying on one or more legacy systems and they’ve run smoothly for many years, you may think they don’t need much attention — you can continue with SOP. But the opposite may be true. Organizations that fail to update and remediate vulnerabilities in their legacy systems are putting those systems …
If you’ve been looking to hire tech talent, you’ve likely come up short. Like so many other things, human resources are harder to find and more expensive than they were pre-pandemic. While the tech talent shortage isn’t new — it’s been going on for years — the related salary increases are impacting IT budgets and …
In 2019, Gartner Research introduced a new enterprise networking and security category they called secure access service edge (SASE). SASE (pronounced “sassy”) combines a suite of both network and security services into a single, integrated cloud service. By bundling these services together, a single vendor can offer their customers better security and reduce the risk …
You feel it at home and at work — things cost more than they used to and some things are hard to find. Supply chain volatility and inflation are part of life right now and it’s no different for technology. Before the pandemic, technology products were plentiful. It would take about a week from purchase …
Whether you want to or not, moving some computing to the cloud may be in your future for 2023. The technology hardware components that you bought three, four, and five years ago are aging out — they’re no longer reliable. You need to buy new ones, but supply chain volatility continues so servers and other …
No two years are exactly the same when it comes to IT budgeting, but the past several years have been more different than most. Simultaneous shortages, accelerations, and increased risk are forcing business leaders to rethink how they use and invest in technology. Technology was important before the pandemic, but now it’s center stage. From …
Hackers continuously search for creative ways to infiltrate company computers, and phishing is one of the most successful methods. Recently, cybercriminals have begun using phishing emails disguised as voicemail notifications to bypass organizations’ security measures and steal user Microsoft 365 and Outlook credentials. Efforts target companies across numerous sectors, including government, software security, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, …
Developing an IT budget that hits the mark paves the way for a year of strategic wins. But how can your IT budget-planning process set you up for success? Most companies start annual IT budgeting by looking at last year’s budget and working from there. Although common, we’ve seen that’s not the best approach when …
There are many approaches to IT budgeting, yet the Run, Grow, Transform (RGT) model remains a preferred classic for a good reason. Gartner developed it to help companies successfully plan and invest in IT and help CIOs decide how to allocate IT resources to support those investments. It looks at your overall IT budget through …
