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Imagine following a souffle recipe calling for four beaten egg whites. Other than the ingredients, you need tools. Obviously, you can’t beat eggs on your kitchen countertop — you need a bowl that’s large enough to allow for vigorous whisking.

For Kansas City organizations that rely heavily on computer systems to operate, ransomware is a very real threat. Just last August, the Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City (MCCKC) announced that they had suffered an attack that resulted in some of their data being remotely encrypted by a cybercriminal.

Have you ever wandered around your house before a video conference starts, looking for an interesting backdrop? If you have, then you know firsthand how technology today grants the ease to do so. And much like how tech allows us to adjust to new ways of working, our new modes of working shape the upgrades tech companies develop.

There’s a common misperception that ransomware attacks happen overnight. That is, once an organization’s network is infected, their data is immediately locked up and held for ransom by cybercriminals.This is not the case, because hackers first have to obtain the following information:

Remote working is not new, though its adoption became more widespread among companies that can offer it as part of efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The benefits of granting work flexibility to staff are significant:

Employees are able to reduce spending on commuting, eating out during lunch breaks, and childcare services.

In late 2019, 10% of small businesses that fell victim to cybercrime didn’t survive. Recently, a study published by ConnectWise revealed that 86% of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are prioritizing cybersecurity. But what about the remaining 14%?

If you believe in any of the cybersecurity myths below, your business in Missouri may very well be among the 14% of US companies that are not taking cyberthreats as seriously as they should.

There’s now an online app for practically anything Kansas City business managers such as yourself can imagine — plus more things you may not have even considered yet. While this grants you an abundance of choices in customizing your online working experience, it also creates operational inefficiencies.

At the onset of World War II, Germany’s Panzer tanks clearly outclassed the horseback cavalries of neighboring nations. This is but one illustration that technology is power.

What is true in warfare is often true in business as well. For example, manufacturers that utilize robots produce goods faster and with better and more consistent quality than manufacturers that employ mostly human workers.

Once quantum computers become a reliable form of technology, they’ll do quick work of computing processes that would normally take supercomputers an extremely long time to perform. With this cutting-edge tech, phenomena such as intricate chemical reactions can be predicted and set to produce new raw materials or very potent medicines.

“If a technological feat is possible, man will do it. Almost as if it’s wired
into the core of our being.” (Motoko Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell)

When introduced to the market, complex technological innovations like data analytics programs tend to be expensive.