In today’s fast-paced business world, staying competitive requires more than hard work—it demands agility and the ability to leverage technology. As we move toward 2025, businesses must embrace the transformative power of technology to navigate market changes and fuel growth. The right tools can unlock efficiencies, foster collaboration, and enhance customer satisfaction, providing businesses with a competitive edge.

​In today's digital landscape, ransomware attacks have become a significant threat to organizations worldwide. With the growing sophistication of these attacks, businesses and government agencies are under immense pressure to enhance cybersecurity while managing tight budgets. This article explores practical, cost-effective strategies to strengthen ransomware defences by emphasizing proactive investments, managed security services, and a layered security approach.

What is a Phishing Attack?
Phishing is a cyberattack technique where attackers attempt to trick individuals into revealing sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, or other confidential data. Typically, attackers pose as trustworthy entities, luring victims with compelling requests or offers. The term "phishing" is derived from the concept of "fishing," as attackers bait their targets into providing the information they seek.

What is Deepfake Technology?
Deepfake technology uses artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, to create hyper-realistic fake images, videos, and audio recordings. The technology can modify existing content by swapping one person for another or generate entirely new content that depicts individuals saying or doing things they never did. While deepfakes can be used for entertainment or legitimate purposes, they also pose significant risks by spreading disinformation that appears to originate from credible sources.
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​What is Generative AI (GenAI)?
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) refers to AI systems designed to create new content, ideas, or data that mimic human creativity. By leveraging deep learning algorithms, GenAI can produce outputs such as text, images, music, and even code. Popular models like Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) allow these AI systems to analyze vast datasets, learning patterns to generate original content that closely resembles the input data.

Recently I came across this webpage: How Much Is “The Way We’ve Always Done It” Costing You?.  In this page, there is a cost calculator to determine how much time and money you and your team waste on inconsistent processes, status meetings, and tedious, manual work. 
You may access the cost calculator here:  https://www.smartsheet.com/status-quo-cost-calculator

Immediately, I keyed in the information to the best of my knowledge and was so amazed to see the time I spent in each of those areas: work processes, status meetings, manual work.

Here is a summary of 57Network’s result.

Have you ever sent out an email accidentally and unable to undo it? The good news is, you can change the setting to delay the email sending even you clicked the send button. Once you set it, you can undo email sending within a short seconds, this could give you a short windows of time to undo your email sending.

NOTE : However, you are not able to undo it once your email has been sent out successfully, and you have to work around it by sending another email to inform your recipient regarding your mistake or whatsoever reasons. 

Base on Smartsheet Report on Collaboration Beyond Communication, we have prepared an infographic for your easy reference.
You can assessed the full report here.

Change is indeed a part of life as the saying goes, "the only thing constant is change."  Since the pandemic started in early 2020, we are seeing changes taking place in every sphere of life.  How are you coping with change?  How is your team coping with change?

​Schedule an appointment with 57Network to find out more about how Smartsheet can help you streamline workplace collaboration and support a dynamic workforce.

We are now in the last quarter of 2020.  It has been a challenging and tough year.  We have seen and heard from many who rose above this unprecedented circumstances.

Nobody is prepared for this global pandemic.  What initially thought to be an outbreak in a city called Wuhan had in no time spread throughout the world.  City after city are in lockdown.  Lives, businesses, economy and many aspects are impacted.

Like it or not, we have to make new adjustments.  
I oftentimes find myself forgot to put on my mask when I got out of my car.  So, I decided to put it on the moment I leave my house, get in the car and get out of the car.  
Instead of "when can I meet you?", the new question is "when can we zoom?"
Instead of planning for our weekly grocery shopping, we find ourselves reviewing every available merchant online to decide where should we purchase our meat, vegetables, fruits and other essential items from.

So, how about our work?  Will it ever be the same again?

How many of you have been attending meeting after meeting over zoom just to get updates and realign with your team?  Is this the effective use of your time?
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You want to get more out of your workday so you can achieve everything you set out to do. But with never ending email, multiple chat apps, and impossible-to-find information, it’s hard to know whether you’re working on the most important things — or if you’re even getting anything done.

You need a way to work that works for you — and that can adapt as your tasks, projects, and programs change. One that enables real collaboration, gives you the information you need to be successful, and frees you up to innovate and drive better results. 
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Download this free report to learn how you can take control of the way you work and achieve more by solving for these common issues at work:

• Email disruption
• Impossible to find information
• Mundane, repetitive, error-prone tasks
• The reporting tax on the work you do accomplish
• Ineffective communication and collaboration
• Difficult-to-use apps and tools