IT & Cybersecurity Insights for
Central Texas Businesses
Practical security news, IT tips, and updates to help Central Texas businesses stay secure, efficient, and always online.
Why You Should Treat Workplace AI Tools Like Professional Colleagues
How your team interacts with AI chatbots affects output quality and workplace culture. Treating these tools professionally makes practical business sense.
Set a Family Safe Word Before AI Clones Your Voice
The FBI says criminals are using AI-generated voices to impersonate people you trust. A safe word and a callback habit beat any deepfake detector.
How to Recover from Ransomware Without Paying the Ransom
Catawba County, North Carolina recovered from a 2025 ransomware attack without paying. Here's what your agency needs in place to do the same.
How to test your disaster recovery plan
A useful recovery test answers a specific business question. Learn how to choose the right exercise, measure the result and turn gaps into a clear next step.
What to Do After the CenterPoint Energy Data Breach
Over 1 million CenterPoint customers in Texas were affected by a data breach. Here's what you need to do to protect yourself.
Building a Privacy Program for AI: What Local Agencies Need to Know
AI tools change how your agency handles sensitive data. Here's how to build privacy protections that actually work in this new environment.
Ransomware at Texas Appraisal Districts: What Happened and What a CAD Should Do
Bexar, Dallas, Travis and Tarrant appraisal districts were all hit by ransomware. Here is what happened at each one and what a CAD should have in place first.
ClickFix: The Fake CAPTCHA That Asks You to Hack Yourself
ClickFix pages ask you to press Windows key plus R and paste a command. That is not a CAPTCHA. Here is how the attack works and the one rule that stops it.