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Manufacturing Cyber Attack

7 min read

How Much Does Ransomware Downtime Cost a Manufacturer?

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...

AI Ransomware

8 min read

It Costs $4 to Attack Your Business. It Takes Weeks to Recover.

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...

JCollinson

4 min read

Meet the Team: Jacob Collinson

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...

AI Investment ROI

6 min read

AI Adoption is Climbing in Ag and Manufacturing. Returns Are Not.

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...

Sam Rominger

2 min read

Meet the Team: Sam Rominger

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...

Manufacturing Plant

4 min read

Disaster Recovery Checklist for Manufacturers

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...

2 min read

Copilot Training That Actually Sticks: Why Generic Demos Don't Work

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...

3 min read

5 Things That Determine Whether Your Business Is Ready for Copilot

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...

Employees using Artificial Intelligence

3 min read

Your Employees Are Already Using AI. Do You Know What They're Sharing?

HOW MANY PEOPLE ON YOUR TEAM USED AN UNAPPROVED AI TOOL LAST WEEK? Not the number you would guess in a meeting. The real one. Somebody drafting a proposal at 11 p.m. Somebody summarizing a contract...

3 min read

What Microsoft Copilot Would See If You Turned It on Today

WOULD YOUR BUSINESS BE READY FOR COPILOT TODAY? Microsoft Copilot doesn’t create new permissions. It inherits the ones you already have in place. The moment an employee signs in, Copilot reads across...

AI Data Access

3 min read

Microsoft Copilot, Built for How Your Business Actually Runs

COPILOT WILL SHOW YOUR TEAM EVERYTHING THEY HAVE ACCESS TO. THE QUESTION IS WHETHER YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS. TL;DR Copilot doesn't create new access; it surfaces everything someone already has access...

copilot

3 min read

What Is Microsoft Copilot and Is It Right for My Business?

THE POTENTIAL AND LIMITATIONS OF MICROSOFT AI The adoption of AI continues to accelerate across industries, including manufacturing. According to recent research, 72% of businesses have adopted AI...