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Microsoft announced new AI, security, and management features coming to Microsoft 365 in 2026. To support these enhancements, global price adjustments will take effect on 1st July 2026. Nonprofit pricing will be adjusted in line with commercial pricing, as it is tied to commercial rates through a fixed percentage discount. Please take a look at …
A fake recruiter message is one of the cleanest social engineering tricks around because it doesn’t look like a trick. That’s why LinkedIn recruitment scams work so well inside real businesses. They don’t arrive as malware. They arrive as a normal conversation that nudges someone toward one small action: click this link, open this file, …
LinkedIn “Social Engineering”: Protecting Your Staff from Fake Recruitment ScamsRead More
In the traditional office, a “Clean Desk” policy was a simple habit: shred the sensitive stuff, lock it away, and don’t leave passwords where someone can see them. In 2026, the same idea still matters but the “desk” has changed. For many teams, the home office is now the default workspace, and that means physical …
“Clean Desk” 2.0: Securing Your Home Office from Physical Data LeaksRead More
At home, security incidents don’t look like dramatic movie hacks. They look like stepping away from your laptop during a delivery, or leaving it unlocked while you grab something from another room. Those ordinary moments, repeated over time, are how work devices end up exposed. A remote work security checklist focuses on simple, practical controls …
The Essential Checklist for Securing Company Laptops at HomeRead More
If you want to uncover unsanctioned cloud apps, don’t begin with a policy. Start with your browser history. The cloud environment most businesses actually use rarely matches the one shown on the IT diagram. It’s built through countless small shortcuts: a “just this once” file share, a free tool that solves one problem faster, a …
The 2026 Guide to Uncovering Unsanctioned Cloud AppsRead More
Ransomware isn’t a jump scare. It’s a slow build. In many cases, it begins days, or even weeks, before encryption, with something mundane, like a login that never should have succeeded. That’s why an effective ransomware defense plan is about more than deploying anti-malware. It’s about preventing unauthorized access from gaining traction. Here’s a five-step …
Stop Ransomware in Its Tracks: A 5-Step Proactive Defense PlanRead More
The NSA The FBI have just announced that they’ve detected a massive effort by Russian Military-linked hackers to compromise typical residential and local business routers. By gaining access to your router, hackers can track your data, sniff out your confidential information, and get one step closer to every computer, phone, or other device that connects …
Old Router Around the House? The NSA & The FBI Agree: Reboot or Replace Now!Read More
It usually starts small. Someone uses an AI tool to refine a difficult email. Someone enables an AI add-on inside a SaaS app because it promises to save an hour a week. Someone pastes a paragraph into a chatbot to “make it sound better.” Then it becomes routine. And once it’s routine, it stops being …
How to Run a “Shadow AI” Audit Without Slowing Down Your TeamRead More
Most small businesses aren’t breached because they have no security at all. They’re breached because a single stolen password becomes a master key to everything else. That’s the flaw in the old “castle-and-moat” model. Once someone gets past the perimeter, they can often move through the environment with far fewer restrictions than they should. And …
A Small Business Roadmap for Implementing Zero-Trust ArchitectureRead More
