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That ‘Old’ Tech? You’re Still Paying 
For It Every Month ... 1
Leadership in the Age of AI: 
Jay Shetty on the Power of 
Connected Thinking ... 3
School’s Out, 
Cybercriminals Are In ... 4
School’s out, which means the workday doesn’t 
look quite the same as it did a few weeks ago.
Maybe you’re starting earlier to wrap up sooner. 
Maybe you’re working from home with a little 
extra background noise and fewer stretches of 
uninterrupted time. 
Either way, you’re adjusting to the new rhythm 
— and cybercriminals are adjusting right 
along with you.
This isn’t your normal workday.
Hackers know that summer fragments your 
day, and they plan around it. They’re not 
waiting for a major lapse; they’re just looking 
for a quick decision made while your attention 
is elsewhere.
Cybercriminals don’t rely on big, obvious scams. 
They send messages that look routine — an 
invoice, a shared file, a quick request — timed to 
catch you in the middle of something else.
That’s when the click happens.
The click isn’t the problem. It’s what that click 
has access to.
When someone clicks a phishing link or opens 
a malicious attachment, it doesn’t stop there. It 
opens the door to e-mail accounts, files and the 
systems your business runs on every day. From 
there, it moves quietly, spreading across accounts 
and accessing sensitive data before anyone 
realizes what’s happening.
By the time it’s noticed, the impact is already 
much bigger than one mistake.
Why ‘just be more careful’ 
doesn’t work.
That assumes people have time to stop and evaluate 
every click. They don’t. Work moves fast, attention 
is split and people are juggling more than usual.
The goal shouldn’t be perfect attention. It should 
be building systems that don’t rely on it. 
If your team is moving fast and getting 
interrupted, your security needs to account for 
that. In practice, that looks like:
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Unique passwords for every login so one 
compromised account doesn’t unlock 
everything else 
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Multifactor authentication so a password 
alone isn’t enough
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E-mail filtering that flags suspicious 
messages before they reach your team
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A culture where anyone can pause and ask, 
“Does this look right?” without feeling like 
they’re slowing things down
None of this depends on perfect behavior. It’s 
built for real workdays.
Summer doesn’t create these risks. It just makes 
them easier to miss. If your business still depends 
on everyone catching everything, it’s worth 
taking a closer look now.
SCHOOL’S OUT, 
CYBERCRIMINALS ARE IN
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