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Is your router spying on you? Think about how much trust you place on that little device which converts the signal from your ISP and connects all your devices to the internet.

Are you in compliance when it comes to storing customer data? Are you exposing your business to risk from bad actors and potential fines from regulators with a lax attitude towards data security?

How many times a day do you look at your smartphone? Could this be bad for your long-term health?

These are the questions that we explore in this edition of the Continuous technology news round-up.

In a somewhat ironic scenario, many businesses still have those red metal emergency boxes attached to the walls within their offices. The idea is that in the event of a fire, someone would break the glass and retrieve a fire extinguisher or fire hose in order to put out the blaze and thus save the day.

The old saying goes, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. We’re not sure who originally came up with that statement, but if it came out that an IT manager was the source, it would not surprise us.

It’s well understood that business owners certainly do not design their IT infrastructure with the intention of creating situations that result in data breaches and send out compromised data to the dark web – but it happens more often than we'd care to admit.

Last month we took a look at the dark web and how hostile actors based within this vast, unindexed sector of the internet present a clear danger to businesses of all sizes.

As we noted in that post, even conservative estimates suggest that 85% of businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees have already been hacked.

There are several ways the phrase “technology addiction” can be defined. One is an actual clinical definition provided by the The American Society of Addiction Medicine and one is probably something your friends or family accuse you of while you’re scrolling through Twitter at the dinner table.

Today we’re going to talk about a little known and sparsely understood concept that impacts businesses in a major way. For cybersecurity and IT professionals, the dark web is often associated with cybercrime.

The average employee or CEO has a tenuous grasp of what the dark web is, and how it could be a threat to the operational success of their business.

Even if you don’t work in an office environment, there’s a strong possibility that at some point in your career, you’ve experienced some sort of technical difficulty that interrupted the workday. Whether it’s a printer that is malfunctioning, the internet at the office dropping unexpectedly, or a virus on a computer that takes down the whole network – we’ve all cursed at the technology gods at some point.

Today’s technological innovations have empowered small businesses to do things that would have been utterly unimaginable even 15 years ago. To remain competitive in a constantly shifting landscape, we’ve become more dependent on software and hardware to house even the most basic structures of the companies we run.

If you’ve taken a taxi lately or had some food delivered to your door, it’ll be no surprise to learn that the gig economy is taking over the world of work. Consultants have been a fact of life in business for decades, but more companies than ever before are now turning over critical day-to-day tasks to freelancers and outsourced talent.

Do you remember those Choose Your Own Adventure style books from when you were younger? If you haven’t caught that wave of nostalgia yet, let us explain. These were short chapter books in which the reader could determine the outcome of the story based on his or her decision about what the characters in the book should do next.