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World Backup Day Reminds Us How Important Your Backup Strategy Is

World Backup Day Reminds Us How Important Your Backup Strategy Is

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 31, 2025
  • IT Blog

It’s World Backup Day! It’s the one day where we bring awareness to the essential process of backing up your organizational and personal data. Let’s go through some of the variables that a comprehensive data backup and recovery plan features to commemorate the “holiday.” (more…)

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You Need Cybersecurity, Starting with Antivirus

You Need Cybersecurity, Starting with Antivirus

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 28, 2025
  • Security

Antivirus software is one of those things we all know we need, but have you ever stopped to think about how it actually works? Understanding the basics can help you appreciate why keeping it updated is so important. Today, we took a look at antivirus software. (more…)

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How to Connect Google Search to Gemini (and Why You May Not Want To)

How to Connect Google Search to Gemini (and Why You May Not Want To)

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 26, 2025
  • How To

In keeping with the modern trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into everything we do, Google has been moving full steam ahead with Gemini, the company’s latest AI model. While once available only to those willing to pay the “Advanced” plan’s $20-per-month fee, Google recently announced that many new features would be available for free… including the capability to reference a...

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Cybersecurity Training Doesn’t Have to Be Annoying

Cybersecurity Training Doesn’t Have to Be Annoying

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 25, 2025
  • How To

Navigating cybersecurity training can prove daunting for individuals across various organizations. Nevertheless, it remains an imperative task. Identifying the root causes of this reluctance enables organizations to fine-tune their training initiatives for greater engagement and efficacy. This article explores four prevalent reasons why employees may harbor an aversion to cybersecurity training. (more…)

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The March Android Security Bulletin is a Case Study for Maintaining Your Tech

The March Android Security Bulletin is a Case Study for Maintaining Your Tech

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 24, 2025
  • Security

Another month, another batch of security updates. Google has been busy squashing 43 bugs in Android, and—surprise, surprise—two of them were zero-day vulnerabilities. That means bad actors could’ve been exploiting them before Google even knew what was up. Obviously, this isn’t good and highlights why it’s important to keep your software updated.  (more…)

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Are You Using Augmented Reality?

Are You Using Augmented Reality?

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 21, 2025
  • Security

By now, you've likely encountered the concept of augmented reality, especially if you're a sports enthusiast watching games on TV. Those seemingly routine lines on the field during a crucial 4th and 1 situation? That's augmented reality (AR) at work, enhancing the visual experience with informative overlays. (more…)

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Tip of the Week: Best Practices for Sharing Your Screen

Tip of the Week: Best Practices for Sharing Your Screen

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 21, 2025
  • How To

Just about any collaboration platform these days will allow you to share your screen. The functionality works largely the same, regardless of whether you’re using Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or something else, but we want to cover how to use it on these popular platforms. We’ll assume you’ve already joined a meeting for this article, so let’s get started...

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Endpoint Security is Remarkably Important for Your Business

Endpoint Security is Remarkably Important for Your Business

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 19, 2025
  • How To

We all know that it’s important to protect your business’ infrastructure from threats of all kinds. Sometimes when we’re reading about discourse surrounding network security, you’ll see the word “endpoint.” Do you know how important it is to protect all endpoints? That’s what we want to explore with today’s article. (more…)

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Create Great Relationships with Your Vendors

Create Great Relationships with Your Vendors

Running a business is like managing a bunch of moving parts with relationships with employees, customers, operations, and, of course, vendors. Vendors supply your business with the products and services that keep things running, but if you’re not careful, those relationships can turn into time and money pits. So, how do you make vendor relationships work in your favor? Here...

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How Backup Has Gotten Better and Better in Recent Years

How Backup Has Gotten Better and Better in Recent Years

By now, you’ve heard us discuss how data backup is extremely important for every organization. We try to spread awareness of the negative impacts to a business that doesn’t have a comprehensive backup plan in place. Fortunately, data backup has come a long way in the past decade, making it easier, faster, and way more reliable. Let’s take a look...

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