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IOWA CAN COVER UP TO $75K OF YOUR NEXT TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT. THE STEP THAT DISQUALIFIES MOST MANUFACTURERS HAPPENS TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE APPLICATION EVEN OPENS. It is a Tuesday in late January. You...
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THE ELIGIBLE TECHNOLOGY LIST SAYS "CYBERSECURITY SOFTWARE." MOST OF WHAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY BUY IS SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION, AND SUBSCRIPTIONS DO NOT QUALIFY. HERE'S WHAT DOES: A plant manager in central...
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IOWA CAN COVER UP TO $75K OF YOUR NEXT TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT. THE STEP THAT DISQUALIFIES MOST MANUFACTURERS HAPPENS TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE APPLICATION EVEN OPENS. It is a Tuesday in late January. You...
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UNDERSTANDING DATA LOSS PREVENTION: PROTECTING YOUR BUSINESS'S MOST VALUABLE INFORMATION Most business owners picture data loss as a malicious hacker hiding behind a screen, but it is often much less...
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THE RANSOM IS ONE NUMBER. EVERY DAY YOUR LINES SIT STILL IS ANOTHER. It's 6 a.m. on a Monday. First shift is on the floor, but the MES won't load. Scheduling can't see today's orders. Shipping can't...
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AI MADE RANSOMWARE CHEAP. STOLEN PASSWORDS MAKE IT EASY. It's the second week of harvest. Trucks are lined up past the scale house, and the ticketing system won't load. Neither will anything else on...
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Jacob Collinson has been at Koltiv for six years. He is our cybersecurity consultant and vCISO, which covers both the engineering side and the consulting side: security posture, policies and...
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ROI IS WHAT SEPARATES REAL AI ADOPTION FROM PERFORMANCE ART If you walked into any conference this year, the word AI appeared on roughly every other slide. The Feed Mill of the Future Conference in...
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Sam Rominger hits eight years at Koltiv this January. His title is Integrated Technologies Engineer, Storage and Virtualization. Ask him to describe a normal day in one sentence, and you get three...
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It's 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday, and production comes to a stop, the silent alarm starts going off as end users start realizing their business-critical applications have stopped working, to make things...
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GOOD IMPLEMENTATION VS. RUSHED ROLL OUT Imagine this scenario: A COO approves Microsoft Copilot licenses eager to unlock new productivity gains. The team sits through a vendor demo. A training video...
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PLAN AHEAD TO AVOID COSTLY MISSTEPS Imagine a business that feels confident about its Microsoft 365 environment. They manage it well, see no glaring problems, and are eager to jump right into...
