The Reboot
The Reboot is dedicated to helping business owners and managers critically evaluate good and bad decisions on technology, cybersecurity, processes, marketing, sales and other important general business topics. All of us here on the The Reboot are business owners and entrepreneurs ourselves and work every day with professionals responsible with the success of many types of business across the country. We hope our topics give you some insight to a decision or challenge you’re facing today.These are The Reboot crew members:Jim Gast, SpliceNet Consulting (www.splice.net); David A. Groot; Adam Pittman; David Luft; Stefanie Groot; Ryan Haislar; Brian Bratchie; Brandon Bowers
Episodes
53 episodes
Cyber Security Insurance Requirements
In recent weeks we have discussed WHY your business needs Cyber Insurance. Today we will dive into the requirements you MUST have in place to obtain an insurance policy. We are long past the days of having backup and antivirus. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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30:35
Services Your IT Company Should Be Providing
If you are outsourcing your IT Services, do you know what is included? Is it just desktop and infrastructure support? Does it include asset management and real time auditing of all of your software licenses? Is network securit...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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26:00
Why Your Business Needs Cybersecurity Insurance Today
There are a reported 2200 cyber attacks every day, which is nearly 1 cyberattack every 39 seconds. Nearly 95% of all digital breaches come from human error. 560,000 NEW pieces of malware are discovered EVERY DAY. Malware attac...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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21:14
Revisting The Importance of Customer Service Today
The Reboot has discussed customer service in the past. Today we will discuss the importance of good customer service/support while faced with hiring and staffing challenges. Some companies are not able to hire the proper ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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26:15
Tech Sector Layoffs Explained
Large tech layoffs continue through 2023 with headlines showing thousands of people losing their jobs. Here is why the economy, interest rates and pandemic hiring are to blame. #thereboot #cybersecurity #techlayoffs #inflatio...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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27:36
Security Policies – What Are They And Why Your Business Needs Them
Your business needs an AUP if it uses internet access. AUPs are guidelines that protect your company's network. They also protect your business from lawsuits caused by an employee's negligent internet actions. These policies are essential for s...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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28:10
Why Your Business Needs a SOC Today
In the day and age of sophisticated digital hackers, your concern shouldn’t be if you’re going to get hacked, but what you’re going to do when it happens. Investing in a security operations center (SOC) can be your saving grace duri...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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22:47
Microsoft and Open AI
Open AI was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk and is widely known today for its Chat GBT product. Today we will discuss Open Ai and how Microsoft is embracing this artificial intelligence technology into its cloud platforms. Microsoft al...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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27:06
Common IT Problems in Small Business
Most businesses today rely entirely on technology as a result of the digital transformations that have occurred over the past few years. This holds true for businesses of all sizes, including SMBs. The issue for SMBs is that they frequently req...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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29:43
Best Practices to Prevent Wire Fraud
In today’s digital age with the prominence of social media, targeted email phishing has become increasingly common in aiding wire transfer fraud. Wire transfers continue to be an attractive target of fraudulent activity due to the speed and fin...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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27:45
Using OSINT as part of the Reconnaissance Process
There are 7 steps in the Cyber Kill chain and the first one is Reconnaissance. This is the practice of collecting information on your target. This can be done in a Passive way or an Active Way. Today on the Reboot, we will discuss the ways to p...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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28:51
Microsoft Flow and Power Automate
In keeping up with our busy schedules, why not turn to automation to lighten some of the manaul burden? Do more with less by streamlining repetitive tasks and business processes (while increasing efficiency and reducing cots) with Microso...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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28:28
The Reboot - Direct Mail Marketing
With all of the automation available today, are you still leveraging direct mail? What some would consider 'junk mail' has turned profits for a lot of companies. Relying on automation, alongside direct mail can help bring in some fu...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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29:35
Working Securely While Traveling
Now that we have returned to some normalcy when it comes to corporate travel, your risk for being compromised or breached is on the rise. Today we will discuss some key elements and outline a few things that you should be doing to ensure ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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29:15
Customer service, Improving satisfaction
We all know the importance of customer satisfaction and employee retention. Are your customers satisfied? Do you have measurable results? Are you rewarding your awesome staff for getting kudos from your customers? Today we wil...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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26:33
Reiterating the Importance of Zero Trust
Common themes on The Reboot are Zero Trust and Cybersecurity. Today we will discuss steps and tools you can use to build a zero trust approach for your company. No one is safe from a cyber attack and we will also discuss recent brea...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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26:17
Disaster Planning Checklist - What You Need To Know!
Don't wait until it is to late to prepare yourself for a disaster. All to often controls or procedures are not in place, and that's where problems can occur. Today we will discuss key items to have on your checklist to help ensure s...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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24:30
What To Look For In Your Security Awareness Training Provider
Security awareness training is a formal process for educating employees and third-party stakeholders, like contractors and business partners, how to protect an organization's computer systems, along with its data, people and other assets, from ...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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27:11
FTC Safeguards Rule and what you need to do by December 9 2022!
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated its Safeguards Rule. The new rule containsseveral new and/or updated cybersecurity and risk management requirements for autodealerships and other non-banking financial firms.Complia...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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32:26
Information Rights Management/Sensitivity Labeling
Do you have sensitive documents stored on your local PC, server or the cloud? Are you protecting that data properly and securely? Today we will discuss some way you can secure that data using encryption, deny copy/paste function (if...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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27:05
Employee Monitoring - Positive Use Cases
There is a negative connotation when we hear 'employee monitoring'. It's perceived as big brother looking over your shoulder. Today we will discuss some positive use cases for this and how it can actually benefit your employees.#t...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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25:24
Identifying Critical Assets and Determining Risk Profile
Are you running unsupported desktops or servers in your corporate environment? You could be, and not even know it. Critical assets are not only IT assets - they can be a copyright, a patent, even a process or procedure. We wil...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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25:12
Are You Following Your Paid Professionals Advice?
Are you paying a professional or expert (IT/Legal/Dr, etc) who is providing some level of advice, but you are not following it? It could be because of a lack of knowledge or understanding, certainly. It is possible that your risk is...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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25:52
Leveraging Platforms for Project Management
Are you struggling meeting some of your tasks for projects? The Reboot will discuss some of the project management platforms available today. You may be able to use existing tools or software that you are already paying for.#...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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28:36