Guardian Cyber Solutions

Guardian Cyber Solutions Guardian Computer Systems, Inc. we help companies massively decrease their IT and cyber security risk while maintaining income and growth opportunities.

At Guardian Cyber Solutions we believe your IT infrastructure has to be right to make everything run smooth. Technology can be painful if everything is setup and maintained correctly causing massive losses in business growth and income potential. Our proven IT systems will help make your team more productive by streamlining services, managing your cyber security risk exposure, with a extremely use

r friendly support staff to back you up. Our mission is to provide a personal and accurate service to our clients by helping both businesses and end users fully utilize technology to enhance day to day operations while focusing on cyber security to manage and limit risk associated with business operations. Our team is dedicated to trying our best to accommodate our clients’ needs by experiencing a more efficient and stress-free work experience

We know that businesses come in a variety of sizes and budgets. We specialize in working on solutions and long-term strategy rather than just fixing problems. Our desire and goal are that every one of our customers comes to us for any IT problem and allows our team the opportunity to service their needs. We do offer maintenance agreements for IT, Managed Services, and break fix services. Contact us today to see why so many clients are protecting their data with Guardian Computers

Whoever controls your domain name controls your whole business.Your domain is the address behind your website and your e...
08/31/2026

Whoever controls your domain name controls your whole business.

Your domain is the address behind your website and your email. It sits in an account at whatever company you registered it with, like GoDaddy.

Anyone who can log into that account can point your website and email wherever they like.

At a lot of small businesses, nobody knows who has that login. It was set up years ago by a web guy who's long gone, or it's under one staff member's personal email with a password that hasn't changed since.

If someone gets into that account, they don't need to hack anything else.

They can send your website visitors to a fake page that still shows your real address.

They can take over your email and reset the passwords on everything tied to it.

They can send your clients an invoice from your real address, and your clients will pay it, because it came from you.

So go and check who controls the account, whether it's got two-factor login switched on, and whether the domain lock is turned on, which stops anyone moving your domain elsewhere.

While you're in there, set it to auto-renew so it can't expire.

Out with the old and in with the new! 🙌Our new sign went up today, and we couldn’t be more excited about this next chapt...
08/25/2026

Out with the old and in with the new! 🙌

Our new sign went up today, and we couldn’t be more excited about this next chapter for Guardian Computer Systems and Shield Fire & Security!

Same trusted team. Same commitment to protecting your business. Fresh new look.

Stop by and check it out! 👀

📍 1201 S. 3rd St., Terre Haute

If you open an email attachment that looks like an image and it asks you to log in, close it.There's a phishing trick go...
08/25/2026

If you open an email attachment that looks like an image and it asks you to log in, close it.

There's a phishing trick going around this year that hides inside picture files, and it gets past the filters most businesses rely on.

It uses a file type called SVG. It's an image format, but unlike a normal photo, it can carry code inside it.

Someone double-clicks the attachment expecting a picture. Instead it opens in their browser, runs, and sends them to a fake Microsoft login page built for their exact email.

The email system lets it through because, as far as it can tell, it's just an image. Researchers flagged a wave of these in early June.

A picture should never send you to a login screen. So if you open an attachment and it asks for your password, don't type it in.

And be careful with any image you weren't expecting, especially one ending in .svg.

People almost never send those on purpose.

Ask your IT provider to block SVG attachments. Hardly any business needs to receive them, so blocking them costs you nothing.

That slow old laptop your employee is putting up with is costing you more than a new one would.It's easy to treat a comp...
08/25/2026

That slow old laptop your employee is putting up with is costing you more than a new one would.

It's easy to treat a computer as something you only replace when it dies. As long as it still switches on, a new one feels like money you don't need to spend.

Every slow start-up in the morning, every wait for a file to open, every frozen call someone has to drop and rejoin is a couple of minutes gone.

It happens over and over, all day, to everyone stuck on an old machine. Add it up across a year and it's well past the price of a new laptop.

And that's before the frustration, or the fact that old machines stop getting security updates, which makes a slow computer a risky one too.

You don't have to replace everything at once. Just look at how old your team's computers are.

Around the three or four year mark is usually where a machine starts costing you more in lost time than a replacement would.

Ask your staff which computers drive them mad and they'll tell you straight away.

Your IT provider can also point out which ones are near the end of their supported life, since those tend to be both the slowest and the least safe.

Microsoft has installed Copilot on business computers automatically.It's worth getting your files in order before you us...
08/21/2026

Microsoft has installed Copilot on business computers automatically.

It's worth getting your files in order before you use it.

Copilot can see any file the person using it can already open.

In most businesses, that's a lot more than it should be.

Files get shared with "everyone" for convenience. Folders get opened up for a project and never closed again. It piles up over the years, and no one notices, because no one goes looking through it all.

Once Copilot is in the mix, people don't have to go looking. They ask a question, and it answers using anything it's allowed to see, including files that were left open to the whole company by mistake.

So before you let the team use it, get someone to check your file permissions, starting with HR and finance. People should only be able to see what they need to.

Your customers are getting their answer before they ever reach your website.Search Google for almost anything now and th...
08/20/2026

Your customers are getting their answer before they ever reach your website.

Search Google for almost anything now and there's a good chance an AI-written answer sits at the top of the page. They already show up on a large share of searches, and that share keeps climbing.

When it's there, most people read it and never click through to a website at all.

That changes how people find you. Someone used to search a question your business could answer, land on your page, look around, and get in touch. Now the AI hands them the answer and they move on, and they never see you.

The businesses that get quoted inside those AI answers are getting more visits than before. So it's worth becoming the source it pulls from.

Start with your website. Make sure it answers the questions your customers ask, in plain words rather than marketing waffle, because that's what the AI picks up.

Keep your Google Business Profile filled out and correct.

And get your name onto other respected sites in your field. The more solid places that mention you, the more the AI leans on you.

If your visitors from search have been dropping and you couldn't work out why, this is a big part of it.

🔐 **Your business data shouldn’t just be stored. It should be protected like it’s in a vault.**Passwords. Customer infor...
08/18/2026

🔐 **Your business data shouldn’t just be stored. It should be protected like it’s in a vault.**

Passwords. Customer information. Financial records. Emails. Company files.

Cybercriminals don’t care how big your business is — they care how easy it is to get in.

**Guardian Cyber Solutions** helps businesses strengthen their defenses, reduce vulnerabilities, and protect the information they depend on every day.

🛡️ **Lock down your business before someone else gets in.**

**Guardian Cyber Solutions**
*Protecting your business in a connected world.*

07/31/2026

Your team is using AI right now, whether you have a policy on it or not.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and a dozen niche business tools are in the workflow of someone in your business this week. These tools learn from what you type, sometimes retain it for training, and live outside whatever data security setup you've built for the rest of the business.

Without a written policy, you have no way to know what client data is being pasted into prompts, which business decisions are being made with AI assistance, or how your insurance views any of it if something goes wrong.

An AI Acceptable Use Policy doesn't have to be 30 pages. A one-page version covers the essentials: which tools are approved, what data is forbidden as input, what disclosure rules apply to AI-generated work, and who reviews AI output before it goes to a client.

If you want a full AI Acceptable Use Policy template to implement in your business, comment below with "AI Policy" and we'll send it to you.

07/30/2026

Smishing is text message phishing, and it's now more effective at reaching people than email phishing.

The reason is mechanical. Most businesses spent the last decade hardening their email gateways and training people on suspicious links. Almost nobody applied the same effort to text messages. The result is a channel where employees still tap first and think later.

The patterns repeat: a "delivery failed" message with a link asking for login credentials, a "this is your CEO" text from a number nobody recognizes asking for gift cards or a wire, a fake account-lockout message that looks identical to a real bank alert, and a "hey, I'm in a meeting, can you help me with something quick?" text impersonating a senior person.

These work because texts feel personal in a way email doesn't. They land on the same screen where your spouse, your kids, and your coworkers reach you, which makes the brain default to trusting them. That's the entire attack.

The rules to give your team:

1. No business decision happens over text. That includes wire transfers, vendor changes, payroll changes, gift card requests, and password resets.
2. If a text claims to be from a coworker, verify through a different channel before responding. A 30-second Slack message or phone call kills most of these attacks.
3. Never click a login link inside a text. Open the app or website directly.
4. Forward suspected smishing to 7726 (which spells SPAM on a phone keypad). Carriers use it to block the source.

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