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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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The “Zombie” SaaS Audit: Finding the 3 Apps Your Former Employees Still Access

June 20, 2026

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 access they still have from two roles ago.  Three months later, those sessions are still active. This is how zombie accounts form. nNot through negligence, but through an offboarding

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Stop the Bleeding: How Revoking Admin Rights Eliminates Support Tickets

June 15, 2026

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 software, modify system settings, and override security controls) are given to end users far more often than the risk warrants.  The usual reason is efficiency.  The practical result is

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Is Your Invoice a Deepfake? Securing Your Accounts Payable Process Against Voice and Email Cloning

June 10, 2026

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 attacks harder to detect. The question for AP teams is no longer whether they can identify suspicious requests. It is whether the processes around payments make fraud

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Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks: How Phishing Sites Steal Your Active Login

June 5, 2026

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 how Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) phishing attacks work.  Rather than stealing passwords for later use, these attacks silently hijack an already-authenticated session in real time. MFA remains a core control, and

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The “Session Cookie” Hijack: Why MFA Can’t Always Save You

May 30, 2026

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 checked, the wristband proves you belong there. If an attacker steals that wristband, they may not need to beat your MFA prompt at all. That’s the core of session

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The “Legacy Debt” Audit: Identifying the 3 Oldest Risks in Your Server Room

May 25, 2026

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 legacy debt.  Not just “old tech”, but old tech that’s become a dependency. It’s the kind that quietly accumulates risk until it turns into downtime, security exposure, or

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The “Backup Exit” Strategy: Can You Move Your Data Without the Vendor’s Help?

May 20, 2026

When you first sign up for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, everything is designed to feel effortless.  The problem is that the first real test of a SaaS relationship isn’t the onboarding. It’s the exit.  For many small businesses, the front door is wide open, but the emergency exit is bolted shut: exports are incomplete, key data sits in proprietary formats, and leaving requires expensive vendor help. That’s more than inconvenient. It’s a business risk.  As teams move toward a workforce

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