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How to Keep Your Business Running When Microsoft 365 Goes Down
Most of your business probably runs in the cloud now. Email, files, accounting, bookings, payments, it's all online. Then one day a service goes down, and nobody can send an email, open a file, or tak...

Is Your Business Website a Security Risk?
Your website is one of those things you set up once and then stop thinking about. It sits there doing its job, so there's no reason to touch it. That's exactly why a neglected website is one of the co...

How to Spot a Scam Email Now That They Look Real
For years, the advice for spotting a scam email was simple: look for bad spelling and clumsy grammar. A real bank or supplier writes properly, the thinking went, so a message full of mistakes was prob...

What to Do in Case of a Cyberattack (Step by Step)
If a cyberattack hits your business, what you do in the first hour really matters. It's also the easiest time to make a costly mistake, like turning off the wrong machine, deleting evidence, or replyi...

Still on Windows 10? Here's Why You're Putting Your Business at Risk
Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. If your business is still running it, and plenty are, your computers aren't getting security updates anymore. Everything still turns on and...

How to Stop Scammers from Sending Emails in Your Company's Name
Right now, with no special tools, someone could send an email that looks like it came from your company. The From line would show your domain, your logo could be pasted into the message, and it could ...

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 of the person's tenure, when nobod...

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

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 because the approved optio...

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 it’s the broken confi...

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

LinkedIn "Social Engineering": Protecting Your Staff from Fake Recruitment Scams
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.
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