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How to Stop Scammers from Sending Emails in Your Company’s Name

August 10, 2026

Article Summary: Email spoofing is when a scammer sends a message that appears to come from your domain, often to trick your clients or staff into paying a fake invoice or changing banking details. Three DNS records (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) prove that a message really came from you and tell receiving mail servers to reject the ones that didn’t. The catch is that DMARC only protects you once it’s set to “quarantine” or “reject,” and a lot of businesses

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QR Code Scams: What They Are and How to Protect Your Business

August 5, 2026

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 security. Microsoft reported a 146% rise in QR code phishing during the first quarter of 2026. QR codes are part of

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How Small Business Ransomware Attacks Work (And How to Protect Against Them)

July 30, 2026

Small businesses are the most common ransomware target by volume of incidents, even though many small business owners assume hackers focus on larger organizations. A 22-person company has enough revenue to be worth attacking, no dedicated security team to defend it, and a publicly traceable footprint that takes about an hour to research. What follows is a step-by-step walkthrough of how a small business gets attacked, written from the attacker’s side. The company in this account is composite, but the

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How to Answer Cyber Insurance Renewal Questions Without Voiding Your Policy

July 25, 2026

If you have a cyber insurance renewal coming up, the application is probably longer than the one you filled in last time. It’s also more specific. Each new question maps to a control that, if missing, allowed a major 2023 or 2024 claim to escalate. The wording reflects how carriers responded to losses they paid in 2023 and 2024, and how you answer the form matters more than it used to. This post covers why the application got longer, what

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Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding

July 20, 2026

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 do. A shared login here, a quick SaaS sign-up there, a personal laptop used until the company hardware arrived. By month six, none of those

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How to Prepare Microsoft 365 Permissions for a Safe Copilot Rollout

July 15, 2026

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 changes. Microsoft itself now recommends a specific cleanup before any trial: map who currently has access to what, fix the permissions that have drifted out

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5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant

July 10, 2026

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 user consents, inbox rules, or sharing links granted before the change are still active. Here are five settings worth checking in your tenant, especially if

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What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form

July 5, 2026

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 and encrypt everything else after. CISA, the FBI, and the Internet Crime Complaint Center have all documented this pattern as one of the most common

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Why Human Habits Are Your Biggest Security Risk

June 30, 2026

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 a zero-day exploit. Not a brute-force attack on a hardened system. Human behavior, in the course of an ordinary working day. For businesses running cloud-based workflows across multiple

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What is Passkey Migration and How Can It Help Your Team Eliminate Passwords?

June 25, 2026

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 not require users to memorize anything.  Passkey migration is the process of moving from traditional passwords to passkeys: a form of phishing-resistant authentication that uses your device’s built-in security

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