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You donāt need to be a Fortune 500 company to be a target for cybercriminals. You just need to be profitable enough that they think you can pay. āThey donāt actually want to bankrupt the company; they want to be able to be paid, but itās going to really hurt,ā says Patrick Curtin, director of […]
Technology is often viewed as an efficiency driver, but it also opens lawn and landscape companies up to significant financial risk if they do not have a cyber insurance policy in place. āWe have a lot of our clients’ vital information from emails to credit cards and knowing that in the event of a hack […]
As technology becomes more commonplace in the landscape industry, chances are your field workers utilize smartphones or tablets to do some of their work or at the very least clock in and out of jobs. Yet, how much consideration have you given to the cybersecurity of your teamās mobile devices? While your field staff may […]
This information came from a session during the 2025 ELEVATE conference and expo. Donāt miss ELEVATE in Tampa, Florida, on Nov. 8-11, 2026. Did you know that for businesses with fewer than 500 employees, the average cost of a data breach is over $3 million? Additionally, 60% of small businesses fold within six months of a cyberattack. […]
As technology becomes more commonplace within your landscape company, the importance of cybersecurity awareness only increases. Whether your team is using software to schedule appointments, create client estimates or tablets in the field to take property notes, all of these have the potential to be exploited if you are not educating your staff on the […]
After experiencing a cyberattack, Massey Services, based in Orlando, Florida, implemented a number of practices to mitigate the risk of a similar event. Adam Scheinberg, VP of information technology at Massey, has broken these network security practices down all by the letter E. Edge Monitoring ā The edge of your network is where your network […]
The possibility of a cybersecurity attack is probably not one of your number one concerns when youāre running your business. Labor shortages, rising material costs and demanding clients are all pressing matters that keep you occupied. Even if you have a dedicated IT team, this doesnāt automatically eliminate the chance of a cybersecurity attack. Adam […]
Cyberattacks are one of those nightmare scenarios that you might think will never happen to your company. You may say to yourself, āWho wants to hack a lawn care business?ā Unfortunately, there are plenty of cybercriminals who want to do just that. In the early days, cybercriminals were focused on larger companies because you had […]
