The IT Experts

Define Your Goals and Objectives

Start by clearly defining your goals and objectives. What are you trying to achieve? Understanding your overarching objectives will help you prioritize tasks that align with these goals.

Collect Relevant Data

Gather all relevant data that can inform your task prioritization. This data can come from various sources such as project management tools, spreadsheets, customer feedback, performance metrics, and surveys.

Organize and Clean Data

Ensure that the data you've collected is clean and well-organized. Remove any duplicates, errors, or irrelevant information. This step is crucial for accurate analysis.

Identify Key Metrics and Criteria

Determine the key metrics and criteria that will be used to evaluate and prioritize tasks. These metrics should be directly related to your goals and objectives. Common criteria include urgency, importance, impact, and effort required.

Data Analysis

Perform analysis of the data to assign numerical values to each task based on the chosen criteria. For example, you can assign scores to tasks based on their urgency and impact. This can involve using mathematical models, spreadsheets, or data analysis software.

Weighted Scoring

If some criteria are more important than others, assign weights to them to reflect their relative importance. Multiply the scores for each criterion by their respective weights to calculate a weighted score for each task.

Visualize Data

Create visual representations of the data to gain a better understanding of task prioritization. Charts, graphs, and dashboards can help you visualize the relationships between tasks and criteria.

Consider Resource Constraints

Take into account the availability of resources, including time, budget, and personnel. Prioritize tasks that can be realistically accomplished with the available resources.

Review and Adjust

Periodically review and adjust your task prioritization as new data becomes available or circumstances change. Priorities may need to be updated to reflect evolving conditions.

Communication and Collaboration

Share the prioritized task list with relevant stakeholders and workers. Collaboration and input from others can help ensure that priorities are well-informed and accepted.

Monitoring

Begin working on the prioritized tasks and continuously monitor progress. Adjust priorities as needed based on real-time data and feedback.

Data can help every business do more with what they have by giving decision-makers the perspectives they need to make effective decisions. To learn more about how we can help you enhance your organization’s productivity, give us a call today at (954) 834-2800. 

The SLAM model helps individuals identify potential phishing threats.

What Does SLAM Stand For?

In short, each letter in SLAM helps you keep track of phishing prevention practices, including the following:

• Sender
• Links
• Attachments
• Message

Let’s break down what each means:

• Sender: Look at who sent the message and make an educated guess on whether the sender is legitimate or not. Be sure to check the email address and cross-check it with other contact information you might have, looking for potential misspellings or suspicious URLs hidden in the sender’s email address.
• Links: Never blindly click on a link before checking where it actually redirects you to. Hackers and cybercriminals often like to mask their malicious URLs by making them look like those you trust. You can hover over the URL to display where it goes without actually clicking on it.
• Attachments: If there are attachments included with the message, be very careful with them. Don’t download them unless you are absolutely sure they are safe, especially if there is no reason for the attachment to be there as indicated by the message.
• Message: Consider what the message itself says. You can look for misspelled words and poor grammar, along with any potential inconsistencies with the language or behavior of the sender, to determine if it’s a phishing attack being leveraged against you.

Use SLAM to Watch for Phishing Attacks

Phishing attacks are remarkably dangerous for businesses and individuals alike, so take responsibility for your company’s security today by calling us at (954) 834-2800. We can train your team to identify phishing attacks and help you implement solutions to decrease their presence on your network entirely.

Schools are at Risk for Several Reasons

Cybercriminals have more than one, two, or even a handful of reasons for targeting a school and its data. Schools play host to all kinds of data that cybercriminals can’t wait to get their grimy hands on: personal data, student records, family data, employee records, school finances, and potentially even donor information or financial aid data. School email addresses can be spoofed just like any other email address, and since phishing is one of the biggest threats to cybersecurity, it’s no wonder that parents and teachers can fall victim to these types of attacks.

It’s also worth noting that many schools have grown accustomed to remote operations, and as such, software was implemented to bridge the gap between school and student—much of which has yet to be added to school IT policies. These software solutions could be exploited by hackers looking for an easy way in. Furthermore, some schools don’t have the staff necessary to protect their infrastructures and keep everything as up-to-date as it should be. They spend more time catching up and responding to immediate needs rather than thinking about the future, or even cybersecurity training.

As such, this all contributes to the increasing danger of cyberattacks against school systems.

The Consequences of Cybercrime Targeting Schools

Considering all these reasons, it makes sense why a cybercriminal would attack a school, university, or other educational institution. There’s a lot to gain from the data held on these networks, and it might be available without too much effort, too.

A data breach could create such a disruption that schools and universities might be pressured to act immediately—including if a ransomware attack strikes, rendering access impossible, and creating greater problems for not just staff, but students as well. The threat these attacks pose is reason enough for these institutions to take cybersecurity seriously.

Let Us Help You

Whether it’s implementing cybersecurity measures or training policies, KB Technologies Managed IT can help organizations of all kinds take a stand against the cyberthreats of the world. To learn more about what we can do for you, reach out to us at (954) 834-2800.