KRS TECH CHRONICLES 2026 AUGUST
Insider Tips to Make Your Business Run Faster, Easier and More Profitably
Summer may be winding down, but business certainly isn't slowing down. As the season begins to shift, it's the perfect time to take a fresh look at the decisions, habits, and conversations that keep your business moving forward. In this month's issue, we're exploring the questions every growing business should be asking, from uncovering hidden risks to building stronger teams and making sure your technology is truly supporting your goals. Along the way, you'll also find practical insights, fresh perspectives, and helpful tips to keep your business
THE MOST DANGEROUS RISKS IN YOUR BUSINESS Don’t Swim On The Surface Just like Shark Week, the biggest threats are often the ones lurking beneath the surface. Cybercriminals blend into everyday business operations, waiting for the right opportunity to strike. Here are three ways they're targeting businesses this summer, and what you need to know.
one step ahead.
1. Fake invoices and vendor impersonation
Here's to finishing the summer
Attackers don't need to hack anything.
strong and making every decision count.
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This monthly publication is provided courtesy of Josiv Krstinovski President/CEO of KRS IT Consulting Our Mission: At the end of the day, it’s simple: every client deserves enterprise-level security. No shortcuts, no compromises. I’d rather invest more on our end than to let a client go unprotected. That’s the standard I hold myself and our entire team to. Anything less isn’t leadership, it’s negligence.
They need just one believable email. Business email compromise (BEC) works by impersonating a vendor, supplier or executive your team already trusts. The email arrives looking normal, someone pays the "vendor," and by the time anyone realizes it wasn't legitimate, the damage is done. These attacks spike during vacation season. When the person who normally approves payments is out, requests get rerouted to people who don't know what normal looks like. Temporary stand-ins are less likely to question urgency.
busy. A distracted employee sees a password reset and clicks. Someone gets a text from "IT." An email arrives before a meeting requesting urgent approval. Nobody stops to verify because stopping feels like losing time. To fix this, employees need to feel comfortable slowing down when something seems off — an unexpected login, a payment instruction out of nowhere or a link they weren't expecting. Speed is a weapon attackers use against you. Slowing down is how you take it away.
3. Third-party risks that travel fast When a vendor with access to your systems is compromised, the threat travels directly into your environment. This supply chain exposure is often far greater than businesses realize. Software tools, service providers with credentials and contractors with lingering access all present paths most owners have never mapped. Outsourcing a service doesn't outsource accountability.
To ward off attackers, build a verification process for any financial request via email. Answer these three questions: A quick confirmation call to a known Which vendors can access number stops most of these before they your data or systems? go anywhere. What are they connecting to? Who is responsible internally for 2. Phishing attacks that target managing those relationships?
distracted employees
Phishing works because it's engineered around how people behave when they're
If those answers aren't clear, your exposure is increasing your risk.
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