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The 10D Voice

The 10D Voice is written by 10D Tech, for the owners, operations leaders and office managers who run Oregon businesses and would rather not think about technology. Every week it covers one thing worth knowing: how to spot the scam that fooled a careful person, what a recovery plan should actually name, which habits quietly cost a team hours, and where AI helps a small business and where it stops. Plain language, no fear tactics, and a straight answer at the end. 10D Tech has provided managed IT and cybersecurity to Oregon businesses from Corvallis and Portland since 2006.

Think Cybersecurity Is Just the IT Department's Job? Think Again.

It is 4:17 on a Friday afternoon at a family owned manufacturer outside Albany. Alex runs accounts payable. An email lands from the owner: "Need the new routing and account numbers for Peterson before you …

Six Cybersecurity Myths Oregon Business Owners Still Believe

Sam runs a twelve person CPA firm in Salem. Ask him about cybersecurity and he will tell you, without pausing, that the firm is fine. Small shop, decent antivirus, backups running every night. He believes …

Five Ways AI Can Help With Disaster Recovery Planning, and Where It Stops

The recovery plan is in a folder. Somebody wrote it in 2021. It names a phone system you replaced, a vendor you left, and two employees who no longer work there. That is the usual …

Five Overlooked Habits That Save the Most Time

Alex runs a forty person engineering firm outside Salem. Last spring he bought three tools to save his team time: project management, a scheduling app, an AI notetaker. Six months later the team was still …

Your Business Needs Its Own Back to School Checklist

By the third week of September the school routine has settled. Backpacks by the door, lunches made the night before, everybody out of the house on time. The families that used the window in August …

The 15 Minute Meeting Every Leadership Team Should Have

The internet went down at 8:40 on a Tuesday. No storm, no attack. A fiber cut two blocks over. By 9:15 the office was still standing around. Not because nobody knew what to do. Because …

Why This Fake Windows 11 Update Is Fooling Careful Users

Alex runs the front desk at a twelve person accounting firm in Eugene. Tuesday afternoon, a Windows update notice pops up. Same blue background. Same Microsoft logo. Same layout Alex has clicked through a hundred …

When the Emergency Hits, It's Too Late to Plan

When your flight hits turbulence, the last thing you want to hear from the pilot is "Give me a minute. I've never handled this before." Flying feels safe not because problems never happen but because …

The AI Mistake Most Businesses Are About to Make

The California Gold Rush of 1848 promised one thing: opportunity. Hundreds of thousands of people headed west, hoping to strike it rich. Some found gold. Most spent months chasing a dream that never paid off. …

The 4 Most Expensive Backup Assumptions Businesses Make

Mike Tyson once said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." In business, that punch usually comes in the form of a disruption you assumed you were ready for. It might …

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