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April 27, 2022
Articles By TEAM ASCEND

6 Benefits of Salesforce Financial Services Cloud

Are you looking for a powerful platform that can help you enhance your customer experience, streamline your processes, and gain insights into your business operations? Look no further than Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. Designed for businesses of all sizes and ...

Cybersecurity in 2023: Average Cost of Data Breaches to Reach $5 Million

In 2022, the average cost of a data breach reached $4.4 million, a 13% increase since 2020. Based on the end of 2022, the average cost is expected to reach $5 million per incident in 2023. It is the role of IT consulting professionals to help businesses evaluate their own ...

Performing a Cloud Cost Optimization Assessment

In today's increasingly competitive business landscape, cost optimization has become an essential aspect of managing cloud environments effectively. Cloud cost optimization is a concept that has already been the focus of some organizations over the years and is gaining in ...

6 Critical Information Security Elements for Community Banks

An information security policy is a set of rules that ensures data security by regulating domain and network usage. This policy should protect not only the organization's data but the customers’ data as well. In this article, we’ll outline critical elements that a community ...

How to Simplify Salesforce Validation Rules

Creating efficient formulas can be an effective way to customize your Salesforce org. If you’re an expert in the field, you know that sometimes getting the formula right is the easy part. The challenge, however, can be found months down the road when you’re trying to ...

The 8 Most Common Cybersecurity Attacks to Be Aware of

A cyberattack is any malicious attempt by an individual or a group to gain unauthorized access to a computer system or network. Usually, cyberattacks aim to disrupt, destroy or alter the victims' system or network. Cybercriminals also steal, expose, or destroy private data ...

4 security risks of Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are significant achievements for am organization. Despite the desire to celebrate your accomplishments, you must also make sure that you take extra steps to ensure your cybersecurity during M&As. Your organization is exposed to ...

In-House, Outsourced, and Hybrid IT Solutions

When evaluating IT responsibilities for in-house and outsourced IT functions, there are benefits to both scenarios, and the right decision will be unique to each organization. The main benefit of having internal IT services is that your own employees understand and support ...

Two Quick Tips for Better Salesforce Validation Rules

Validation rules are an important tool in a Salesforce admin’s toolbox to help ensure your precious data stays as clean as possible. Validation rules can be difficult to wrap your head around, but this article provides some tips that may make using this important ...

Windows 11 Cheat Sheet: What's New, Old, & Omitted

Microsoft released the latest, off-the-beaten version of Windows 10 six years after reporting that it was the last of its collection. Undoubtedly, Windows 11 adds some pretty exciting features and removes some old ones from its previous versions. So, if you're looking ...

Scam Alert: Telegram, Signal, and other Remote Job Scams on the Rise

Cyber criminals have the world at their fingertips thanks to the technology we use every day. But as consumers and business users become more informed, especially through the growing prevalance of Security Awareness Training Programs, the "easy" and well-known scam tactics ...

How to Create a Salesforce Report Using a Cross Filter

Salesforce reporting has some amazing capabilities. With just a few clicks we can see our key accounts with open opportunities, our leads with upcoming activities due, and our contacts with recent call logs. These are all-inclusive asks and can be run fairly intuitively. ...

Quick Guide to Tax and Unemployment Fraud

Data breaches and subsequent identity theft are unfortunate but common occurrences today and have only increased since the onset of the pandemic.

How Much Should You Invest In Cybersecurity?

Present-day technology has evolved and grown more sophisticated. The internet of things (IoT) represents the interconnectedness of devices, virtualization, big data, and the cloud are all new trends. So, as technology continues to grow and evolve, cybercriminals are ...

7 Steps to Creating a Security Awareness Culture

As companies and organizations face cyber-attacks with increased frequency and sophistication than ever before, the importance of security awareness training is clear. But while the information on the best practices for staying safe while using technology is out there, how ...