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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.

Can you believe the first three months of 2018 have already passed? That’s a quarter of the year, or if you’re a fan of stats, already 25% of the way toward 2019! Time flies when you’re having fun – and even if you’re not, apparently.

Speaking of things moving quickly, the 24-hour news cycle isn’t contained to world events.

Whether or not we’re aware, many of us use cloud networking in some form every single day. Many of our potential clients who seem reluctant to adopt cloud computing into their digital strategy are surprised when we point out just how often cloud networks are leveraged every day, and how much value these technologies bring to users.

Everyone is superstitious to some extent. Baseball players are notoriously superstitious, but there’s probably plenty of quiet superstition floating around in your place of work. If you happen to work in the UK, or have any family members from the area you’re probably aware of the superstition about keeping new shoes off the table.