Ask five different people on the street what “cybersecurity” means to them, and you will likely get five different answers. In a general, you might get answers about setting up a technology infrastructure with protection against hackers or leveraging AI to protect a computer from malware.

In our latest newsletter, Continuous CEO Jason Silverglate and CTO Ross Brouse wrote a little about the importance of training employees on information security best practices. (You’re already subscribed, right?) In addition to outlining some of the risks that come with inattentive or outright malicious employees, they also offered a few tips for onboarding new staff and retraining current team members.

Whether or not you tend to celebrate the turning over of the calendar with excessive libations, for most of us the New Year’s hangover is a fact of life.

In reality, December 31st and January 1st are just days like any other, but the arbitrary significance we assign to the passing of a year provides an opportunity for reflection.

Scams are nearly as old as commerce itself. When you think of iconic scams, you might consider the image of the “3-Card Monte” dealer on the corner of a busy city intersection. These are examples of verified scams, but have you considered more “legitimate” forms of con artistry?

How about those games at the state fair that seem so easy but are commonly understood to be rigged? Or a huge bag of potato chips that end up being only half full when you open them up.

A landmine is a scary piece of equipment. It’s an explosive device, placed in the ground and trigged only when an unwitting individual comes within a proximity of the mine, or worse, steps directly on the device.

The effects landmines are horrifying in a very real way.

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.

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.

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.

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.