Apex Technology Blog

Artificial intelligence systems require massive amounts of information to operate effectively. When employees begin utilizing these tools, the volume of data moving across a network increases rapidly. This surge creates operational challenges, security vulnerabilities, and system inaccuracies if it is not managed correctly from the start.

The marketing in the technology industry loves using complicated words for simple ideas, making normal business owners feel left behind. Looking past all the fancy sales pitches reveals that the Internet of Things is a practical concept. It just means putting an internet connection inside everyday equipment so those devices can send and receive useful updates.

This allows basic tools like your office thermostat, door locks, delivery trucks, and security cameras to talk over the internet. The main goal is simply getting helpful, quick updates sent straight to you to run things better.

If you analyze any modern corporate data breach, you’ll discover that it’s often not a particularly complicated attack that breaks through. You’d think that intelligent, sophisticated business owners can spot simple attacks coming from a mile away, but the reality is that today’s threats don’t target a lack of intellect or knowledge. Instead, they go for the actual vulnerability in a busy executive’s workday: their cognitive bandwidth.

The reactive method of managing business technology means waiting for something to explode before you address it. When a computer fails or the network completely bites the dust, a business owner contacts a technician to fix the damage, which usually results in a beautifully unpredictable invoice.

This system creates a pretty backwards relationship between your business and your tech support. The service provider only makes a dime when your life is actively falling apart. (Apologies for the bluntness, but it is true.) Consequently, they have no real financial incentive to put long-term preventative measures in place. This pattern keeps a company permanently stuck in a frustrating cycle of unexpected downtime, panic, and temporary patches.

Modern cyberthreats are understandably terrifying to consider… enough so that it may seem best to lock down your network to the point where someone would need an authentication code to open every window.

Here’s the problem: If you make your security framework so restrictive that your employees feel like they are being micromanaged by an algorithm, two things happen. First, their productivity plummets. Second, they will actively look for ways to bypass your security just to do their jobs.