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What’s So Strange About a Cyber Range?
The short answer is… nothing. In simple terms, a “Cyber Range,” is part of a multi-layered approach to cyber security, with a heavy emphasis on the greatest cyber threat to SMBs… employees. That’s right, the biggest cyber breaches are caused by good employees who simply make mistakes because they are

Why Your Business Needs a Cyber Security Risk Review
Our ever-increasing reliance on technology, networks, software, and even social media, can inadvertently invite cyber-attacks, resulting in a catastrophic loss of business data. It’s no longer enough to rely on traditional technology protection or security controls for information security. There is a clear need to perform threat assessments and implement

Ransomware is More Than a Dare, It’s a Nightmare
Most of our recent articles have been about cyber attacks as a whole, but we felt it was time to address different types of cyber attacks individually. We feel it’s important to do a deep dive into an explanation of each type of cyber attack: A definition of a a

How the Hybrid Work Model Increases Risks of Cyber Attacks
We all know that Covid upended our lives in countless ways. In addition to the health risks associated with the pandemic, the risks to businesses (and the labor force) increased exponentially. The threats, personally and professionally, were so new that society as a whole had to learn on the go,

Cyber Threats in 2023 – You’re Surrounded by Them
The advent of cloud technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoTs), ushered in a tidal wave of new and exciting technological advances, but their popularity also created new, unlimited ways to be hacked. Adding to cyber security risks, was the unprecedented shift from traditional office settings to

Hackers Can Gather Business Data For Months Without You Knowing
During a team meeting with Brett Gallant of Adaptive Office Solutions, he mentioned a fact that lingered with the rest of us… Hackers can be inside a business infrastructure for months without anyone knowing. Soon after Brett headed out for a cyber security meeting, the rest of us lingered in

SMBs Are NOT Too Small for Cyber Attacks, They’re Just Too Small to Make the News
As cyber security specialists, the team at Adaptive Office Solutions knows firsthand how vulnerable SMBs are to cyberattacks. In fact, a few years ago, Brett Gallant – Adaptive’s founder and CEO – had to make a VERY difficult decision… Offer more affordable cyber protection plans that provided minimum protection, or

How Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used Against You in Cyber Attacks
Recently, Brett Gallant, Adaptive’s curious leader, used a program called ChatGPT to see if A.I. could create an original bedtime story that he could read to his kids. After logging into the platform, he simply entered… Bedtime story: The Mouse That Saved the Day. Within seconds the software created a

Cyber Attacks That Affect the Lives of Children
At Adaptive Office Solutions we’ve seen all sorts of cyber attacks, but nothing boils our blood more than hackers who target infrastructures that affect the lives of children. We’ve written about how a school lunch provider hacked into the website of a competitor and downloaded student information, including meal preferences,

The Importance of Cyber Security Training
The business culture in North America has morphed over the last decade, to the point that it’s almost impossible to imagine going back to the way things used to be. In the past, there used to be what is now called, a “silo mentality” in older organizational structures. For example,