July 2026

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

Cybersecurity • 30 July 2026

Reading Time: 13 minutesSmall 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 […]

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How to Answer Cyber Insurance Renewal Questions Without Voiding Your Policy

Business • 25 July 2026

Reading Time: 12 minutesIf 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

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Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding

IT Management • 20 July 2026

Reading Time: 10 minutesBy 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

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How to Prepare Microsoft 365 Permissions for a Safe Copilot Rollout

New Technology • 15 July 2026

Reading Time: 9 minutesA 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

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5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant

Microsoft • 10 July 2026

Reading Time: 8 minutesMicrosoft 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

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What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form

IT Management • 5 July 2026

Reading Time: 8 minutesCyber 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

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