Tech for Business

Cole, CIT’s Power Platform Developer, to recap a recent Prompting 101 webinar focused on CRIT prompting—Context, Role, Interrogation, and Task—and why being specific in each area leads to better AI outputs. Cole explains each CRIT component, highlights common prompting mistakes like over-instructing the AI on how to reach an answer, and discusses how to address bias by explic...

Ann, CIT’s Quality Assurance Analyst, recaps a recent webinar on what an AI policy is, why it matters, and how straightforward it can be to document, implement, and communicate to a team as “bumpers” for responsible AI use. She advises rolling out an AI policy like any other organizational change—routine, transparent communication that frames it as guidance and risk mitigatio...

This week we are joined by Michael Collins, Principal Consulting Solutions Architect at Barracuda, to explain what a web application firewall (WAF) is and how it differs from a network firewall. Along with Nate, CIT's Director of Cybersecurity, we explore how WAFs help defend websites, web apps, and APIs against threats like injection, bot attacks, brute force attempts, and D...

Nate, Director of Cybersecurity, recaps a webinar on how threat actors weaponize AI to run efficient underground businesses, using it to speed up phishing, malware creation, data parsing after account compromise, and to lower the skill needed for attacks, including deepfakes. He emphasizes AI itself isn’t “bad,” but intent matters, and the best protections are fundamentals: v...

In this episode, Nate, CIT’s director of cybersecurity discusses proposed HIPAA Security Rule overhauls aimed at strengthening healthcare cybersecurity after major breaches and downtime incidents. Nate explains that the vote on the proposed changes was pushed back by one year (to 2027), but organizations should still start planning because implementation is typically required...