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17 hours ago

Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding

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…

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6 days ago

How to Prepare Microsoft 365 Permissions for a Safe Copilot Rollout

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…

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2 weeks ago

5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant

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…

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2 weeks ago

What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form

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…

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3 weeks ago

Why Human Habits Are Your Biggest Security Risk

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…

4 weeks ago

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

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,…

1 month ago

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

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…

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1 month ago

Stop the Bleeding: How Revoking Admin Rights Eliminates Support Tickets

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…

1 month ago

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

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…

2 months ago

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

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…

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