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Beachgoers all know the security dilemma that comes with a stray wallet. When it comes time to put on your trunks and head into the sea, do you bury your valuables in the sand? Hide them under a towel? Or leave them be and hope for the best?

For all of those who find each of these options less than ideal, there’s FlexSafe.

Are businesses losing the war on cybercrime? One recent article on ZDNet says yes. The number of security breaches has risen by 11% just in the last year. This is costing businesses even more in lost revenue dealing with these kinds of attacks. It’s wasting their time and resources.

Every year, millions of attacks are successfully carried out against businesses just like yours. It’s important to know what you’re up against and how to protect yourself.

The most common social engineering tactic is phishing, often coupled with a strategy called pretexting.

Many entrepreneurs fall into the same cycle. Working their fingers to the bone just to keep their heads above water. No exercise, no healthy food and no time for their family. If this sounds like you, then you are indeed in the trap.

CHASING YOUR TAIL

Popular entrepreneur and author Barry Moltz coined a phrase to describe these tendencies: the Double Helix Trap.

By Dan Ward

Today, it seems the world is more complex than ever. Business is no different. But in our quest to address the intricacies of our circumstances with our products, offerings, services, communication and everything else, too often something is lost.

In a recent article for Inc.com, several founders shared the best advice they’d received over their long and storied careers.

The wisdom runs the gamut, but reading through the article, it’s clear that the factors essential to being successful orbit a few key points: You need to be adaptable yet focused on the specific things that you and your business can do really well.

Last year, the top 15 hacks compromised more than 2.5 billion user accounts. You can safely assume that, even if you haven’t been notified, it’s likely your data is out there as well. So, get savvy and follow these simple tips.

Enlist in protection.

There’s no telling when natural disasters will occur. When they do, certain regions in the country often bear the brunt of their impact, like when Hurricanes Harvey and Irma hit certain states in 2017. With a well-designed disaster recovery (DR) plan, your business can be spared from total devastation.

Jargon can be intimidating if you’re dealing with IT issues and you’re anything but techy. Running an anti-malware scan can generate auto pop-ups that leave you clueless with IT terms that sound Greek. Learning the basic concepts listed here will help you move on and not be surprised the next time that happens.

“The High Price of Efficiency,” a new report published by Harvard Business Review, might just challenge our ideas of disruption, innovation and business as a whole.

According to the report, we’ve been looking at mega giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook all wrong.