5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant
Microsoft has tightened several default settings in Microsoft 365 over the past few years. Newer tenants get more protection out of the box than tenants set up before 2022 or so. The problem is that legacy configurations stay in place. A setting changed for new tenants in 2024 doesn’t retroactively change in yours, and historical […]
What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form
Cyber insurance applications include a question that catches a lot of small business owners off guard: “Do you maintain immutable, air-gapped, or offline backups of your critical business data?” Carriers added that question to renewal forms because ransomware operators worked out that the fastest way to force a payout is to wipe the backups first […]
Why Human Habits Are Your Biggest Security Risk
Most cyberattacks do not 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 felt slower. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 68% of breaches involve the human element. Not a zero-day exploit. […]
The “Zombie” SaaS Audit: Finding the 3 Apps Your Former Employees Still Access
Someone leaves the company on a Friday. By Monday, their email account is disabled, and their laptop is back in the pile. What nobody checks is their login to the project management tool they signed up for in Q3, the cloud storage folder they shared with a contractor, or the CRM access they still have […]
Stop the Bleeding: How Revoking Admin Rights Eliminates Support Tickets
The most time-consuming ticket in your 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 broken configuration left behind after someone changed a setting IT can’t trace. Local administrator rights (the ability to install software, modify system settings, […]
Is Your Invoice a Deepfake? Securing Your Accounts Payable Process Against Voice and Email Cloning
It’s a statistic that sends a shiver down the backs of SME owners, managers and employees. According to the FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, business email compromise (BEC) cost US businesses more than $3 billion last year. This makes it one of the most financially damaging cybercrimes on record. AI has made these attacks harder […]
