Kevin
By the time an employee hands in their notice, the decisions that will make their departure clean or messy have already been made. They were made in the first weeks of the person’s tenure, when nobody was paying close attention because the new hire had just arrived and there were a hundred other things to…
There’s a moment in most board meetings where the conversation turns to cyber risk.
The board thinks the questions are simple. But you know the answers are far from it.
And how you explain it often matters just as much as the controls you’ve put in place…
Ever feel like Windows 11 is getting in the way?
Or not as smooth as it should be?
Small frustrations eat up more time than you might think.
But Microsoft’s bringing in a shift that focuses less on new features and more on fixing those everyday frustrations…
A safe Microsoft Copilot rollout starts with a permissions audit before any trial license is enabled. Microsoft 365 Copilot retrieves files, emails, and chats using each user’s existing Microsoft 365 permissions. In most tenants, those permissions are broader than anyone has mapped, because access tends to accumulate across years of projects, ad-hoc sharing, and staff…
Backups are usually covered.
Recovery is where things get more interesting.
Your environment is well protected on paper, but what would happen if you had to use your recovery plan tomorrow
If an AI tool in your business did something it shouldn’t, how quickly could you step in and shut it down?
Most businesses are moving fast with AI.
Very few have thought about what happens when it goes wrong…
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…
Your incident response plan looks solid on paper.
The real test is what happens in the first few minutes when something hits.
Trying to understand impact, making quick decisions, and waiting to see the full picture.
This is how to make sure your response holds up under pressure…
A lot of scams are getting much harder to spot.
They don’t look suspicious anymore. And this latest one is slipping straight past email security.
Most businesses wouldn’t question it, that’s why it’s working…
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…