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The Cyber Security Gap Most Small Businesses Don’t Know They Have
Ask most small business owners whether they take cyber security seriously and the answer is usually yes. They've got antivirus. They use strong passwords or at least, they think they do. Their IT company handles "all of that." And then something goes wrong. The...
How to Get Better Results From AI: A Plain-English Prompting Guide for Small Businesses
There's a particular kind of frustration that comes from using an AI tool; getting a response that's technically a response to what you asked but somehow completely missing the point, and then spending ten minutes trying different variations until something useful...
Is AI Actually Useful for Small Businesses? An Honest Answer
The volume of enthusiasm around artificial intelligence right now is, depending on your perspective, either exciting or exhausting. Probably both. Every week brings a new announcement about how AI is going to transform some aspect of business. Every conference has...
AI Tools Are Already in Your Business — Whether You Chose Them or Not
Here's something worth considering. At this precise moment, there's a reasonable chance that at least one member of your team is using an AI tool to help with their work. They might be using it to draft emails, summarise documents, generate marketing copy, research a...
GDPR in Plain English: What Small Businesses Actually Need to Know
GDPR has been with us since 2018, but a remarkable number of small business owners still find themselves either slightly baffled by it, quietly ignoring it, or convinced it's primarily a large-business concern that doesn't really apply to them. It applies to them. It...
What Actually Happens When a Small Business Gets Hacked
Most people picture hacking as something from a film. A hooded figure in a dark room, lines of green code scrolling down a screen, a dramatic countdown clock. The reality is considerably less dramatic and, in some ways, more unsettling for that. Real cyber attacks on...
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