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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 industries, Salesforce Financial Services Cloud is a comprehensive solution that can help you manage your customer relationships,...

Posted on April 19, 2023

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 popularity. A report by Flexera revealed that 61% of people consider it their top priority. It is imperative to constantly...

Posted on April 04, 2023

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 bank needs to consider when planning its information security policy.

Posted on March 24, 2023

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 understand how, and if, the formula works the way you think it does.

Not only does your formula have to work, but ideally, it's...

Posted on February 27, 2023

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 the unique IT needs of your organization. One of the many benefits of outsourcing IT services is that you can leverage...

Posted on January 24, 2023

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 functionality a little easier.

Posted on January 12, 2023

Validating File Integrity with Get-File Hash

Downloading and verifying that a file hasn’t been inadvertently or maliciously changed has been the job of admins for a while. Ideally, to make sure the file you have downloaded is exactly the same as the source, you would make a byte-to-byte comparison. But that’s not often practical or possible for files you’ve downloaded.

Additionally, that just proves the file you downloaded was the...

Posted on January 12, 2023

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 of years past are becoming less effective.

Posted on January 12, 2023

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. But, sometimes we’re looking for what’s NOT there – and for this, knowing how to make use of cross filters in Salesforce...

Posted on January 03, 2023

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.

Posted on December 22, 2022

What is Zero Trust? Tips for the Average Organization

Is the network perimeter dead, or just distributed?

In the earliest days of digital networking, organizations used firewalls as a boundary wall between an organization and the outside risks posed by the internet. It was a security framework that worked well at first — so well, in fact, that the perimeter-first ideology has persisted even to this day, despite the evidence that this approach is no...

Posted on September 30, 2022

Your Role in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is complex and constantly changing, so as the threats continue to rise, you may wonder, "whose responsibility is cybersecurity?"

Posted on September 27, 2022

Cyber Insurance: Using a ‘Compliance First’ Strategy

A ‘Compliance First’ Mindset Limits Liabilities for Organizations Like Yours

By adopting a Compliance First strategy when choosing solutions and vendors, you can identify those that do not comply with your requirements & eliminate them in order to be prepared for your cyber insurance questionnaires. It also means evaluating your current solutions and vendors and replacing those that cannot...

Posted on August 22, 2022

How Your Risk Affects Cyber Liability Insurance

If you think that your cybersecurity insurance claim will be cleared with no questions asked, think again. While reviewing your claim, your cyber insurance provider will assess whether you took “due care” to protect your business from being compromised by a cyberattack. While having a cyber liability insurance policy is non-negotiable today, you cannot be fully assured that your insurer will...

Posted on August 18, 2022

Understanding Cyber Liability Insurance

Like other insurance models, cyber insurance (also referred to as cyber liability insurance or data breach insurance) provides coverage for a type of loss. In the case of cyber liability insurance, this type of loss would include the impact of data breaches and cyberattacks. In this article, we'll cover the top-asked questions about cyber insurance and some expert tips for getting the right...

Posted on August 15, 2022

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