The Mid‑Year IT Checkup: What Every SMB Should Review Before Q3 The midpoint of the year is more than just a calendar milestone. For small and mid‑sized businesses, it’s a critical opportunity to pause, assess, and course‑correct before the pace of Q3 and Q4 accelerates. Technology environments change quickly. New tools get added, threats evolve, […]
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Security Awareness for SMBs: From Annual Training to Continuous Defense For many small and midsize businesses (SMBs), security awareness training still looks the same as it did years ago: a once-a-year session, a short quiz, and a box checked for compliance. That approach no longer matches today’s threat landscape. Cyberattacks increasingly target people — not
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Preparing for the NTLM Phase‑Out: What SMBs Should Do Now An era is ending. For years, NTLM quietly kept Windows environments running—authenticating users, enabling access, and acting as a dependable fallback when things weren’t configured perfectly. However, Microsoft has formally deprecated NTLM and is actively moving toward disabling it by default in future Windows and
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7 SMB Workflows to Automate in Q2 (and Why They Matter) For small and midsized businesses (SMBs), Q2 is a great time to step back and ask a simple question: What’s eating up time that doesn’t need to anymore? The answer is often everyday IT and security tasks that are critical, but repetitive. When these
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AI‑Driven XDR for Incident Response: The Future of SOC Defense I’ve spent the better part of seven years getting the call no organization wants to receive. Ransomware is on the network. Data is moving somewhere it shouldn’t. Systems are going dark. In those moments, your security stack either works for you or it doesn’t—and I
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AI-Powered Co-Managed IT Services for SMBs Your IT person is drowning. Tickets pile up. Projects stall. Security alerts go unreviewed for days. And every time someone suggests you just hire another IT person, you do the math ($80K salary, benefits, training time, hope they work out) and wonder if there’s a better way. There is.
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RSA 2026: The Security Trends SMBs Should Watch (Even If You’re Not Attending) RSA Conference 2026 is one of the biggest security events of the year, taking place March 23–26, 2026 in San Francisco. Even if your team isn’t attending in person, the themes showcased at RSA will directly shape the tools, threats, and best
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Ransomware attacks hit a business every 14 seconds. The average cost is $5.37 million, and that doesn’t even include the ransom itself. Ultimately, it’s not about if your business will be targeted, but when. Even companies with billion-dollar security budgets have fallen victim. Yahoo, Marriott, Sony…the list goes on. Fortunately, you don’t have to be
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Traditional perimeter security is dead. The castle-and-moat approach assumes everything inside your network is safe, but that assumption gets exploited daily. Attackers breach the perimeter, then move freely across your systems until the damage is done. 82% of data breaches involve compromised credentials. Let that sink in for a moment. Once hackers have legitimate login
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The holiday season brings joy…but it also brings unexpected cyber risks. Among the most dangerous are zero-day vulnerabilities, flaws exploited before patches are available. Combined with holiday distractions and increased online activity, these threats can turn festive cheer into costly breaches. Here’s how to strengthen your holiday cybersecurity strategy and stay ahead of zero-day attacks.
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