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 [...]
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 [...]
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 stolen credentials as the leading cause.There is now a more effective path, and it does [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Organizations spend tens to hundreds of thousands fortifying their perimeters, but the biggest threats often originate from within. This article explores how saved passwords and autonomous AI agents can create hidden pathways for cybercriminals, bypassing traditional defenses and highlighting the need for a unified approach to mapping user access. The [...]
You click a link, sign in, approve the MFA prompt, and get on with your day. Completely unaware that someone else just logged into your account at the same moment.That scenario surprises many businesses, particularly those that rely on multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect cloud accounts. But this is exactly [...]
MFA is a strong front-door lock. But it’s not the only thing that decides whether someone can get in.After you sign in, your browser keeps you logged in using a session token (often stored as a cookie). It’s the digital version of a wristband at an event: once you’ve been [...]
The most dangerous thing in a server room is often the phrase, “Don’t touch that.”It’s usually said with a half-joke and a grimace. It refers to the old box that “still works”, runs something important, and has survived so many fixes and workarounds that nobody feels confident changing it anymore.That’s [...]
