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Stop Trying to Boil the Cybersecurity Ocean
Let’s not pretend. Cybersecurity sounds exhausting. You’ve got a business to run, people to manage, goals to hit, and now someone’s telling you that you need 40 new policies, a risk framework, and maybe a cybersecurity bootcamp just to stay ...
Cyber Trends
The Windows 11 Time Bomb Your MSP Forgot to Mention
Let me tell you a story. It starts like most horror stories do—with a false sense of security. I sat down recently with the CEO of a well-run, 250-person company. Smart guy. Good business. Solid MSP. We talked shop: headcount, ...
Microsoft Just Extorted You. Here’s What to Do About It.
You don’t have to upgrade to Windows 11. That’s the good news. The bad news? If you don’t, your business is about to enter a slow, painful spiral into cyber vulnerability and operational chaos. Right now, people are calling Microsoft’s ...
Well, That Didn’t Last Long: Why Your Cyber Strategy Can’t Be Based on Headlines
Not even a full week. That’s how long we had between a glimmer of good news and a fresh slap of reality. Just a few days ago, security analysts were celebrating. Ransomware payments, they said, were down. A win! Maybe ...
Business Resilience
Part 2: Coffee or a Crisis: The CEO’s Choice in Cybersecurity
Last time we looked at why tabletop exercises matter and how they can reveal the cracks business leaders don’t notice until ...
The Silent IT Risk That Can Wreck Your Company Value: Tribal Knowledge
When CEOs and CFOs think about cybersecurity risk, they think about hackers, ransomware, and data breaches. What they do not think about is the way their own IT teams operate—and how that internal process can make or break the company ...
Could Your Business Survive a Cyberattack? (Most Can’t—and Won’t)
The US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities last week. The result? A “spectacular military success,” sure—followed immediately by the Department of Homeland Security warning that Iran’s state-backed hackers (and a gaggle of bored ...
Security Best Practices
Stop Trying to Boil the Cybersecurity Ocean
Let’s not pretend. Cybersecurity sounds exhausting. You’ve got a business to run, people to manage, goals to hit, and now someone’s telling you that you need 40 new policies, a risk framework, and maybe a cybersecurity bootcamp just to stay ...
The Cybersecurity Test You Think You're Passing (You're Not)
We were just running a security assessment for a 150-person company last week. Nice organization. Professional. Fancy logos on their trucks. Well-funded. And in about 11 minutes, we were inside their network. Here’s how it started: We sent an email. ...
Why Every CEO Needs a Cyber Incident Response Playbook
Why This Problem Lands on Your Desk When a cyber incident hits your company, the first call usually goes to IT. But very quickly, the responsibility shifts to you and your leadership team. Regulators, insurers, customers, and even the media ...
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Do You Know Enough About AI to Protect Your Business? Take This 4‑Question Quiz and Find Out.
Everyone’s talking about AI like it’s a friendly office assistant. It writes emails. It drafts proposals. It makes your team feel smarter — without having to actually be smarter. But here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud: AI is the biggest internal threat to your business you’ve never audited. Because it’s not just what your team is doing with AI ...
You Didn’t Hire AI. But It’s Already on Your Payroll.
Let me tell you a story no one else wants to. You’ve got a new employee. You didn’t interview them. You didn’t onboard them. You never approved their access to your systems. But they’re already inside. They know your processes. ...
Did Your AI Assistant Go Rogue With Your Data?
When you first rolled out M365 you pictured streamlined workflows, faster decisions, fewer papercuts. You didn’t sign up for a public AI model quietly siphoning off your internal agreements, pricing decks, customer roots and shoots for the training set of ...
Incident-Ready: The Paper Trail That Protects Your Claim (Working With Your MSP: Negligence, Gross Negligence, and Keeping Claims Straight)
When incidents happen, the fastest path back to normal rests on two things: how carefully everyone acted and what the records ...
Your Guide to Implementing CMMC: What Defense Contractors Must Know Now
Introduction Beginning November 10, 2025, the Department of War (née Department of Defense) will formally require that new solicitations and contracts include compliance with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). For firms in the defense industrial base, that means compliance ...
From Furrows to Firewalls: Why Your Farm Is the Hacker’s New Playground
When I was a kid, you spent hours plowing a field. Back and forth. Back and forth. You lined the front tire of the tractor perfectly with the last furrow. The sun baked your neck. Dust clogged your nose. Your ...
Why Treating AI as Your Support Team Could Put Your Business at Risk
There’s a growing trend in the IT industry that should have you concerned: people are letting AI act as their “technician.” Instead of escalating issues, running diagnostics, or evaluating the impact of a fix, they’re turning to an AI tool, ...
Pumpkin Spice, Passwords, and the One Month a Year We Remember Hackers Exist
It’s the season of strong passwords, phishing reminders, and PowerPoint fatigue. Too bad hackers don’t care what month it is. It’s that time of year again. The leaves are changing, pumpkin spice is back, and your inbox is about to ...
You’re Using Your Smartest Employee Wrong
What if I told you that you’re mismanaging the most brilliant member of your team? Not a little wrong. Not a “hey, let’s have a coaching conversation” kind of wrong. I mean catastrophically wrong. The kind of wrong that’s costing ...
The Resume That Ended Everything
Meet Bill. Bill runs ops. He’s been with you eight years. He’s dependable. Gets stuff done. You trust him. Then one Tuesday morning, Bill receives an email from one of your clients. It has a resume in it. They highly ...
Cyber Lawsuits, Shared Responsibility, and What You Can Learn from a Real Ransomware Case
Cyber Lawsuits, Shared Responsibility, and What You Can Learn from a Real Ransomware Case When companies get hit with ransomware, questions of “who’s at fault” can quickly become lawsuits. But in many cases, fault is shared—and the legal system divvies ...
The Cybersecurity Test You Think You're Passing (You're Not)
We were just running a security assessment for a 150-person company last week. Nice organization. Professional. Fancy logos on their trucks. Well-funded. And in about 11 minutes, we were inside their network. Here’s how it started: We sent an email. ...
