Today, work does not always happen inside the office. Employees may check email from home, review files between appointments, or handle practice tasks while traveling for meetings, conferences, or patient visits. That flexibility helps your practice stay productive, but it also increases risks.
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming part of the modern workplace. Employees are using AI to summarize documents, draft emails, brainstorm ideas, and automate repetitive tasks. Used responsibly, these tools can save time and improve productivity.
Most people treat outdated technology like a favorite sock with a hole in it—clearly past its prime, but not bad enough to throw out yet.
You notice it here and there, like when it suddenly takes forever to send a simple email, or when you hit save and the screen freezes like it forgot what it was doing.
Taking a reactive approach to IT might not feel like a problem in the moment.
Most issues start small: a system slows down, a warning appears, or something feels slightly off but still works. Because nothing is actually broken, it gets pushed off in favor of more immediate priorities.
School’s out, which means for many people the workday doesn’t look quite the same as it did a few weeks ago.
Maybe you’re starting earlier so you can wrap up sooner. Maybe you’re working from home more, with a little extra background noise—Brutus barking, Johnny Jr. crying—and fewer stretches of uninterrupted time.
School’s out, which means for many people the workday doesn’t look quite the same as it did a few weeks ago.
Maybe you’re starting earlier so you can wrap up sooner. Maybe you’re working from home more, with a little extra background noise—Brutus barking, Johnny Jr. crying—and fewer stretches of uninterrupted time.
Accounting firms handle some of the most sensitive information a business can possess. Tax records, payroll data, Social Security numbers, banking details, and confidential financial reports all move through your systems every day. With so much at stake, you would expect these firms to have fortress-like security.
While you’re firing up the grill or sitting in beach traffic, someone else is getting to work.
They’ve been planning for this.
They know which businesses will be running on skeleton crews and which alerts will go unanswered.
Picture walking up to a house and lifting the welcome mat to find a key underneath.
It’s convenient, predictable and exactly where someone with bad intentions would look first.
Most businesses treat their passwords the same way.
Remember blowing into Nintendo cartridges to make them work? That was our version of IT support.
Cartridge won’t load? Blow on it. Still won’t load? Blow harder.
If that failed, you smacked the console.
We thought we were pretty good at technology.
