What Are Passkeys, and Should Your Business Use Them?
Article Summary: A QR code scam, sometimes called quishing, hides a malicious web link inside a QR code. Because the link is buried in an image instead of written as text, it slips past the email filters that normally catch bad links, and scanning the code usually moves the victim onto a personal phone that sits outside the company’s […]
Still on Windows 10? Here’s Why You’re Putting Your Business at Risk
Article Summary: A passkey lets you sign in to an app or website using the same fingerprint, face, or PIN you use to unlock your phone or laptop, with no password to type. It’s built on a security standard called FIDO that can’t be phished, because the passkey only works on the real site and there’s no password to steal or reuse. Most major […]
What to Do in Case of a Cyberattack (Step by Step)
Article Summary: If your business is hit by a cyberattack, the first hour matters. Disconnect the affected devices from the network instead of powering them off, call your IT provider by phone, and leave the evidence in place. If money was wired to a scammer, call your bank right away. This post is the step-by-step plan, plus where […]
Who Can See What Your AI Note-Taker Records?
Article Summary: Windows 10 reached the end of Microsoft support on October 14, 2025, which means it no longer gets security updates. The computers still work, but any new flaw found in Windows 10 will never be fixed, which makes them easier to attack and can cause problems with compliance and cyber insurance. You have three options: upgrade […]
How Small Business Ransomware Attacks Work (And How to Protect Against Them)
Article Summary: Most ransomware operations target small businesses at volume, running through dozens of prospects per month. A 22-person company can be researched in 40 minutes using public records, attacked using session-token theft after a single phishing click, and ransomed within a week. What follows is a step-by-step walkthrough of how that attack unfolds, written from […]
5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant
Article Summary: Microsoft has tightened several Microsoft 365 defaults over the past few years, but those changes do not always apply retroactively. Tenants set up before 2022, or configured by a previous IT provider and left alone since, often still have legacy settings in place around file sharing, external email forwarding, third-party app consent, audit log retention, and MFA enforcement. […]
How to Answer Cyber Insurance Renewal Questions Without Voiding Your Policy
Article Summary: Cyber insurance applications have grown longer because of specific claim trends from 2023 and 2024, including the MOVEit supply-chain breach, the Change Healthcare ransomware incident, and the Arup deepfake wire fraud. Each new section asks about specific security controls including immutable backups, layered MFA, callback verification on wires, EDR or MDR coverage, vendor risk, and tested […]
What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form
Article Summary: Immutable backups are backup copies that nobody can change or delete during a fixed retention period, including administrators and attackers using stolen credentials. Cyber insurance carriers ask about them on renewal applications because ransomware operators routinely destroy backups before encrypting production systems. A backup sitting on your network under regular admin credentials does not qualify. Cyber […]
How to Prepare Microsoft 365 Permissions for a Safe Copilot Rollout
Article Summary: 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 accumulates across years of projects and staff changes. A safe Copilot rollout begins with auditing those permissions, fixing the gaps, and applying sensitivity labels to confidential […]
Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding
Article Summary: Offboarding is the final step of a process that started on the employee’s first day. Shared logins, forgotten SaaS subscriptions, untracked personal devices, and client relationships locked inside one person’s inbox are almost always traceable to informal onboarding shortcuts taken months earlier. Tightening the onboarding side turns each future departure into a 90-minute checklist instead of a three-week […]