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How AI is Impacting Your Business
AI is no longer something businesses are experimenting with on the sidelines. It's already built into the tools your team uses, the applications your vendors provide, and the way customers interact with organizations every day. For small and mid-sized businesses, that creates both opportunity and responsibility. Teams are using AI to draft emails, summarize information, automate tasks, improve customer experiences, and make faster decisions. At the same time, cybercriminals are using the same technology to create more convincing phishing attacks, automate fraud, and scale their efforts in wa
AI is no longer something businesses are experimenting with on the sidelines. It's already built into the tools your team uses, the applications your vendors provide, and the way customers interact with organizations every day. For small and mid-sized businesses, that creates both opportunity and responsibility. Teams are using AI to draft emails, summarize information, automate tasks, improve customer experiences, and make faster decisions. At the same time, cybercriminals are using the same technology to create more convincing phishing attacks, automate fraud, and scale their efforts in ways that weren't possible a few years ago. The businesses using AI well are not the ones using it the most. They are the ones using it in a way that makes their people more capable, their customers better served, and their decisions better informed. Whether you have formally adopted AI tools or not, AI is already part of how your business operates. The question is not whether to engage with it. That decision was made for you. The question is whether you have a plan for getting the most out of AI while managing it responsibly. This is where having the right technology partner can make a difference. DP Solutions helps organizations understand where AI is already at work in their environment, how to use it effectively, and how to manage it responsibly.
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6 Best MSPs With Published Support Metrics (2026)
Most managed service providers talk about fast support. Very few publish the numbers to prove it. If you run operations across multiple locations, that gap between talk and proof is where your downtime lives. This is why published support metrics are a invaluable resource in picking your MSP. You have probably reviewed MSP websites loaded
Most managed service providers talk about fast support. Very few publish the numbers to prove it. If you run operations across multiple locations, that gap between talk and proof is where your downtime lives. This is why published support metrics are a invaluable resource in picking your MSP. You have probably reviewed MSP websites loaded
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Why Are My Emails Going to Spam?
Email remains one of the most important communication tools for businesses, but even legitimate messages do not always reach the inbox. A customer may report
Email remains one of the most important communication tools for businesses, but even legitimate messages do not always reach the inbox. A customer may report
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Your Donor Database Is Becoming an AI Tool. Who’s Setting the Rules?
Do you know which applications your staff use already include AI? Does approving a donor management platform also mean approving its AI features? Who decides what donor and constituent information those features can access? When nonprofit leaders think ...
Do you know which applications your staff use already include AI? Does approving a donor management platform also mean approving its AI features? Who decides what donor and constituent information those features can access? When nonprofit leaders think ...
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Managed IT services for healthcare practices: what to ask before you choose
By Bill Ledebuhr, Director of Operations, Fantastic IT · October 23, 2026 Before you choose a managed IT provider for your medical practice, get clear answers to five questions: who can access your systems, whether your backups have been tested, who answers when the EHR (electronic health record) goes down, who owns each task between
By Bill Ledebuhr, Director of Operations, Fantastic IT · October 23, 2026 Before you choose a managed IT provider for your medical practice, get clear answers to five questions: who can access your systems, whether your backups have been tested, who answers when the EHR (electronic health record) goes down, who owns each task between
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When Trusted Technology Becomes a Security Risk
We use the internet every day without giving much thought to what keeps our communications secure. We visit websites, sign into business applications, exchange sensitive data, and trust the lock icon in our browsers. Behind these everyday actions is an interconnected system of software, encryption, digital certificates, and trust. Recent security events involving critical PHP vulnerabilities and a certificate authority incident involving eMudhra serve as timely reminders of what can happen when weaknesses emerge within these foundational technologies. The incidents are unrelated, but the
We use the internet every day without giving much thought to what keeps our communications secure. We visit websites, sign into business applications, exchange sensitive data, and trust the lock icon in our browsers. Behind these everyday actions is an interconnected system of software, encryption, digital certificates, and trust. Recent security events involving critical PHP vulnerabilities and a certificate authority incident involving eMudhra serve as timely reminders of what can happen when weaknesses emerge within these foundational technologies. The incidents are unrelated, but they reinforce the same message: Cybersecurity isn’t only about stopping an attacker from getting in. It’s about continuously understanding, monitoring, and protecting the layers of technology your organization depends on. PHP2Shell: A Threat to Web Infrastructure On October 21, emergency patches were issued for two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both carrying a CVSS 4.0 score of 9.2. The vulnerabilities can enable unauthenticated remote code execution, potentially allowing an attacker to execute commands on a vulnerable web server without first authenticating. The risk is particularly significant because the vulnerabilities exist at the PHP runtime level. Potentially affected environments include PHP installations handling web requests through PHP-FPM, Apache mod_php, php-cgi, FrankenPHP, and LiteSpeed. Patched releases include PHP 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, and 8.5.12. Organizations running PHP 8.1 or earlier warrant additional attention because those branches are no longer receiving normal upstream security releases. For businesses, however, the challenge goes beyond knowing a patch exists. The bigger question is whether you know where PHP exists in your environment. PHP may be supporting an e-commerce site, customer portal, legacy application, container, or appliance without being immediately visible to the teams responsible for security. That makes accurate asset inventory and continuous vulnerability management just as important as the patch itself. When the Technology That Creates Trust Becomes the Threat A separate security incident involving certificate authority eMudhra highlights another type of foundational risk. TLS certificates help establish encrypted connections and verify that users are connecting to the intended service. Certificate authorities sit at the center of that trust model. Private keys associated with eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authorities were found to have been generated using severely inadequate cryptographic values. Six were associated with TLS certificates and two with code signing. The weakness meant the corresponding private keys could effectively be recovered using information contained in the public certificates, potentially allowing an attacker to generate fraudulent certificates that appeared to have been signed by a trusted certificate authority. The affected certificates were subsequently retracted or distrusted, but the incident highlights a broader challenge. Systems that do not benefit from modern browser-based revocation mechanisms, including some containers, Linux systems, embedded devices, IoT environments, developer tools, and applications using independent trust stores, may require additional remediation. Importantly, there is currently no public indication that the affected eMudhra keys were maliciously exploited. Two Vulnerabilities, One Message At first glance, a PHP vulnerability and a cryptographic weakness involving a certificate authority have little in common. From a cybersecurity perspective, however, they expose the same reality: Your organization does not control every technology it relies on. Security isn't defined solely by your firewall, endpoint protection, or password policies. It also depends on operating systems, programming languages, cloud and hosting providers, certificate authorities, open-source components, third-party applications, software vendors, and countless dependencies operating behind the scenes. As Kodi Oshiro, SOC Manager at Datalink Networks, explains: “Organizations can’t control when the next critical vulnerability is discovered. They can control how prepared they are to identify their exposure, respond quickly, and reduce risk.” Kodi Oshiro, SOC Manager, Datalink Networks That preparedness is what separates a newly disclosed vulnerability from a potential business crisis. What Organizations Should Be Doing Modern cybersecurity requires organizations to continuously: Identify internet-facing assets and understand the technologies supporting them. Monitor and triage new vulnerability disclosures as they emerge. Prioritize vulnerabilities based on actual organizational exposure and risk. Patch, mitigate, or isolate vulnerable systems quickly. Monitor endpoints, servers, and networks for indicators of compromise. Keep operating systems, browsers, applications, containers, and trust stores current. Understand certificate and PKI dependencies across the environment. Maintain an incident response plan before a critical vulnerability becomes an active security incident. In short, security is a process, not a product. For organizations without a dedicated security team, the constant stream of vulnerabilities can feel overwhelming. But the takeaway from incidents like these shouldn't be fear. It should be preparedness. You cannot prevent the next critical vulnerability from being discovered. You cannot control every software vendor, open-source project, or certificate authority your business depends on. What you can control is how quickly your organization can determine whether it is affected and how effectively it can respond. Moving From Reactive to Ready At Datalink Networks, our security team helps organizations strengthen that capability through security monitoring, vulnerability management, endpoint and network protection, infrastructure visibility, and incident response. When a critical vulnerability like PHP2Shell emerges, the question shouldn't be: “What do we do now?” It should be: “Are we affected, and is our security team already responding?” If you're unsure whether your web infrastructure, servers, certificates, or other critical systems may be exposed to these or emerging threats, Datalink Networks can help assess your environment, prioritize risk, and build a practical roadmap to remediation. Cyber threats will continue to change. Your ability to respond needs to change with them.
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Tech Talks: Apps & Ale SD – AI Security 101
Tech Talks: Apps & Ale brought Sioux Falls IT leaders together to discuss AI security, governance, and the opportunities ahead Bringing AI Security & Governance Into Focus Xigent’s Tech Talks: Apps & Ale series continued in Sioux Falls, where Xigent and Aurascape brought local IT leaders together at ROAM Kitchen + Bar to explore the
Tech Talks: Apps & Ale brought Sioux Falls IT leaders together to discuss AI security, governance, and the opportunities ahead Bringing AI Security & Governance Into Focus Xigent’s Tech Talks: Apps & Ale series continued in Sioux Falls, where Xigent and Aurascape brought local IT leaders together at ROAM Kitchen + Bar to explore the
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Beyond FortiGate: FortiSASE for Your Hybrid, Remote and On-Prem Workforces Part 2
Image sourced from Fortinet In Part 1, we finally had a way to get rid of the remote access VPN and a way to secure network traffic for your remote …
Image sourced from Fortinet In Part 1, we finally had a way to get rid of the remote access VPN and a way to secure network traffic for your remote …
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IT Careers In New Orleans: Practical Paths For Talent And Employers
A clinic login failure before first appointments, a parish phone outage during public service hours, or a finance team locked out of billing approvals...
A clinic login failure before first appointments, a parish phone outage during public service hours, or a finance team locked out of billing approvals...
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Build Security Habits That Last All Year
October creates useful attention. Leaders approve reminders, employees expect training, and IT teams can raise issues that often sit behind normal tic...
October creates useful attention. Leaders approve reminders, employees expect training, and IT teams can raise issues that often sit behind normal tic...
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Is Your Server Out of Date? Why It Might Be Time for an Upgrade
Is your server from 2016 or older? It may be time to start planning for a replacement. Servers are the backbone of your IT infrastructure, supporting everything from file storage
Is your server from 2016 or older? It may be time to start planning for a replacement. Servers are the backbone of your IT infrastructure, supporting everything from file storage
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