RESEARCH
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 ...
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
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 ...
The Cybersecurity Gap That’s Costing You Everything—and No One's Telling You About It
You’ve made the investments. Your team has security tools in place. You’ve got someone managing IT. You’ve had the compliance audit. On paper, everything looks fine. But there’s a problem. A big one. No one on your team can clearly ...
More Articles
Beyond Penetration Testing: Embracing Risk Assessment for Real Security
Imagine for a moment that you have a valuable book. You decide to place it in the absolute best storage facility you can find. One day you go to the facility only to find your book is gone. You had ...
Improving Your Small Business
Small businesses face a high degree of competition on virtually all fronts. This level of competition means that small businesses must distinguish themselves from their contemporaries to achieve entrepreneurial success. When it comes to small business growth, tweaking the small ...
Microsoft’s Copilot Chatbot Builder
If you use chatbots to simplify repetitive tasks in your business, the news that Microsoft's Copilot Chatbot Builder is now a standard feature of a Copilot Pro subscription will be welcome. In addition, subscribers can now use Copilot within Microsoft ...
Understanding and Optimizing Small Business Server Hardware
Is your small business heading out of that “small” category? While that’s amazing news for your goals and bottom line, you’ll find some change necessary for continued plain sailing. One of these shifts involves your business’s hardware system, which needs ...
Gemini AI Can Help Format Your Google Slides
Google is proving to be a leader in the AI landscape with tools like Vertex AI, but it's the latest function in Google Slides that has small business owners feeling excited. Anyone who has spent hours creating a presentation only ...
AI in Marketing: Personalization and Targeting Strategies
Artificial intelligence allows companies to craft personalized ads that target specific demographics. Incorporating AI in marketing with the right personalization and targeting strategies can drive results higher and faster than what you may assume possible. What Exactly Is Personalized Marketing ...
Bitwarden’s Passkey Feature for Businesses
Today's companies need some way to authenticate user access to protect their systems and sensitive data from unauthorized access. Passwords are a common authentication method. Unfortunately, managing numerous passwords on a professional level can be tough. Bitwarden's passkey feature for ...
Why Your Provider NEEDS To Adhere To Your Standards
Would you go to a doctor who tells you to stay away from sugary drinks as he is standing there drinking a coke? Would you feel confident about a mechanic who tells you to get your brakes fixed but yet ...
Improving Productivity in the Workplace
As an employer, your primary focus is keeping your business afloat by maintaining staff productivity, which increases company efficiency and customer satisfaction. However, productivity can quickly decline if repetitive tasks make workers uninterested and tired, causing them to lose momentum. ...
The Rise of Conversational AI: Transforming Customer Support
If the thought of "chatting" with artificial intelligence seems alien to you, you might be surprised that you're already doing this on various platforms. Don't you pay your electric bill over the phone or use a department store's convenient online ...
The Dangers of These Social Media Privacy Issues
Social media is a part of our everyday lives. Despite the many benefits of these platforms, social media privacy issues remain a major concern among users. Learn about the sensitive information that social media sites can access about their users ...
Empowering Employees: AI’s Role in Small Business Training and Skill Development
Every business owner envisions a dream team that's growing, innovating, and maximizing available resources. If AI solutions can take your current employees up a notch, that dream might be an imminent reality. It's happened—AI's role in small business training and ...
