When an automation goes quiet, is that good news?
Why scheduled flows and reporting jobs fail in the most dangerous way possible — silently — and what a heartbeat signal actually buys you.
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Practical thinking on cybersecurity, AI, managed IT, and the technology decisions that matter for growing businesses.
How to Stop Vendor Impersonation Email Fraud
For finance and IT leaders: why vendor-impersonation phishing keeps slipping past smart teams, and which workflow changes actually reduce wire-fraud exposure.
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The MOVEit lesson: asset discovery beats patch speed
For small IT teams: what the 2023 MOVEit breach reveals about the software you can't patch because you don't know it's running.
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Why OneNote on iPhone keeps asking me to log in
For iPhone users stuck in a OneNote sign-in loop after logging into Microsoft 365, here's what's actually happening and how to break the cycle.
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Your employees aren't stupid: spotting fake login pages has become nearly impossible
Why the 'check the URL' advice we've been giving employees for a decade has quietly stopped working—and what that means for how IT thinks about phishing defense.
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When phishing infrastructure scales faster than the defenses meant to catch it
Phishing campaigns are being pre-built across languages and sectors months in advance. Here's why individual analysis tools matter in that gap.
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When a regulator can switch off your stack: the Anthropic suspension and the supply chain you didn't map
What the June 2026 Fable 5 and Mythos 5 suspension reveals about a category of risk most AI-dependent teams haven't put on their threat model yet.
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Agentic AI in the wild: where the security gaps are showing up
A look at what recent incidents and prototypes reveal about the security posture of deployed agentic AI systems — and where defenders still have leverage.
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When the malware brings its own brain: SMBs and the rise of AI-native attacks
AI is no longer just a tool defenders use—it's becoming the attacker itself. What that shift means for small and mid-sized business security in 2026.
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Beyond the benchmark: evaluating AI vendor security claims for your small business
Why glossy AI security benchmarks shouldn't be the last word—and a practical approach small business buyers can use to pressure-test vendor claims.
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What Business Email Compromise Actually Looks Like — And How to Stop It
BEC attacks don't look like movies. They look like an email from your CFO. Here's what to watch for and what you can do about it.
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The whisper problem: gossip, gentleness, and what church discipline actually is
A reflection on how gossip quietly erodes church community, why we mistake it for concern, and what scripture-shaped discipline looks like in practice.
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