Microsoft has tightened several Microsoft 365 settings over the past few years. Newer tenants get more protection out of the box than tenants set up before 2022 or so. The catch is that those changes don’...
Cyber insurance applications include a question that catches a lot of Southeast Texas small business owners off guard: “Do you maintain immutable, air-gapped, or offline backups of your critical business ...
Most cyberattacks don’t start with a sophisticated intrusion. They start with a click on a personal email, a reused password, or a file uploaded to a familiar cloud service because the approved option fel...
Your team locks everything down with passwords. Some are strong, some are not, and most have been reused somewhere over the years. Every month, IT fields reset requests. Every year, the same breach reports list...
The zombie SaaS audit starts with a simple question: how many of your former employees can still log into your software? Someone leaves the company on a Friday. By Monday, their email is disabled and their lapt...
The most time-consuming ticket in your IT queue is rarely a hardware failure. It’s the PC infection that started when a user installed something they shouldn’t have been able to. Or it’s the b...
The most dangerous thing in a server room is often a phrase, not a device: “Don’t touch that.” It’s usually said with a half-joke and a grimace. It refers to the old box that still works...
Ransomware doesn’t start with encryption. It starts with access. A stolen password. An unpatched system left exposed. An admin account with far more reach than it needs. In many cases, attackers are inside an e...
Most small businesses aren’t breached because they have no security. They’re breached because a single stolen password becomes a master key to everything else. That’s the flaw in the old “castle-and-moat” model...
Most small businesses with weak small business security layers aren’t falling short because they don’t care. They’re falling short because their security stack grew tool by tool, solving one problem at a time. ...