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How Digital Tools Can Reduce Operational Costs

The current economic climate is difficult for companies of all sizes. As your company prioritizes cutting operational costs without sacrificing service, innovation, efficiency, or productivity, the answer becomes crystal clear. Streamlining operations ...

SVG Files: A New Gateway for Phishing Attacks

Hackers never stop looking for ways to steal data from your business. Now, they’ve turned their attention to leveraging SVG files, a type you would never suspect. These seemingly harmless image files ...

Google Boosts Android Security With New App Safety Tools

Thanks to a new cybersecurity update, Android users can breathe easier knowing their devices are less vulnerable to malware. A partnership between Mandiant FLARE and Google boosts Android security with new app ...

GenAI Fuels Explosive Cloud Growth

Imagine a world where AI revolutionizes business operations and transforms the infrastructure supporting them. That world is here as GenAI fuels explosive cloud growth.  The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) is ...

Combating Deepfakes: Protecting Workplaces From Digital Deception

Imagine this: you get a call from your CEO asking you to wire a large sum of money to a foreign bank account. It’s unusual but comes directly from them, so you ...

Hidden Text Salting: A New Email Security Threat

Email remains hackers’ first choice for launching attacks on unsuspecting companies because it’s easy, inexpensive, and effective. Phishing messages take advantage of the weakest link in any security strategy—humans—and for every tool ...

Hackers Exploit GenAI for Faster, Smarter Cyber Attacks

There’s no question that generative AI (GenAI) affects businesses of all sizes. But for all the good news — increased productivity, more accurate data analysis, streamlined operations, etc. — there’s plenty of ...

OneDrive for Business May Not Be Fully Secure

Heads up: If your company uses OneDrive for Business to store critical documents in the cloud, they may not be as secure as you think.  According to security expert Brian Maloney, Microsoft ...

Microsoft Teams Adds Phishing Alerts to Boost Security

Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to infiltrate organizations, and phishing attacks remain one of their most common — and successful — approaches. Despite efforts to build awareness and train people to recognize ...

Apple Patches First Zero-Day of 2025

It might be a new year, but cybercriminals are still up to their old tricks —including exploiting previously unknown security flaws in operating systems to launch attacks on businesses. Finding and patching ...

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Health Data Hack Puts Millions of Files at Risk

Health Data Hack Puts Millions of Files at Risk

What would you do if your customers’ sensitive information fell into the wrong hands? The recent Freedman HealthCare health data[...]
How Endpoint Protection Helps Safeguard Remote Workforces

How Endpoint Protection Helps Safeguard Remote Workforces

Nothing is reshaping the modern labor market and how we think about work and running businesses like remote work. Technology[...]
Why Small Businesses Need Multi-Factor Authentication

Why Small Businesses Need Multi-Factor Authentication

How does your business control access to sensitive online networks and tools? Are you still relying on usernames and password[...]

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5114 Balcones Woods Dr.
Suite 307-429
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 336-2970

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Suite 260
Austin, TX 78702

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Since 2003, The Critical Update has been a leading provider of IT support and consulting, focusing on small and medium sized businesses in the Austin metropolitan area. We have helped hundreds of businesses increase productivity and profitability by making IT a streamlined part of operations. We equip our clients with customized technology solutions for greater operational value and to reduce risk.

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