Year: 2026

Executive Summary Election Day is November 3, and scammers are working the calendar just as hard as campaigns are. Fake voter-registration alerts, bogus polling-place changes, and “urgent” donation requests are designed to steal personal data, money, or login credentials. Because employees read texts and emails on work phones and laptops, these scams are a business […]

Use a strong password” has been the go-to advice for twenty years. It’s also no longer enough on its own — and the gap between what it promises and what it actually protects is exactly where most small businesses get breached. Somewhere in your office, there’s a version of this: a sticky note under a […]

It usually starts the same way for the security analyst who first spots it: a phishing email gets flagged for review, and the analyst pulls up the link expecting the usual tell-tale signs — a strange domain, a misspelled brand name, an IP address where a company name should be. Instead, the link resolves to […]

It’s 9:14 on a Tuesday morning. You’re on your second cup of coffee, sorting through overnight email, when you see one from your “shipping provider” — a delivery exception, action required, tracking number attached. You click it without really thinking, the way you’ve clicked a hundred emails just like it. The page that loads looks […]

The Story Behind the Headline It didn’t start with an alarm. It started with a routine internal benchmark run — one of the thousands OpenAI runs on every model before it ever gets close to release. Astra, the company’s next-generation model, was being scored on ExploitBench, a test designed to measure something fairly narrow: given […]

Article Summary: Your IT budget should include the technology you already use, the support required to maintain it, and the upgrades you expect to make during the year. It should also cover cybersecurity, backups, employee changes, planned projects, and a reserve for urgent repairs or replacements. If your IT budget only covers computers, Microsoft 365, […]

What OWASP OASIS Is — and the Story Behind It OWASP — the Open Worldwide Application Security Project — is the nonprofit community that’s been quietly shaping how the software industry thinks about security for over 20 years. It’s the group behind the OWASP Top 10, the closest thing the industry has to a universal […]

Executive Summary Every new tool or vendor you adopt becomes part of your daily operations and part of your attack surface. Checking them before you sign costs far less than unwinding a bad purchase or recovering from a vendor’s breach. This guide walks through a seven-step vetting process, a sample scorecard, and the questions to […]

Article Summary: Allow personal devices only for approved work, through approved apps, and when the device meets your security requirements. Use company-owned devices for administration, sensitive work, or jobs that require large amounts of data to be stored locally. Employees often use personal devices for work before the business has made a decision about it. […]

Article Summary: Three to five years is a practical replacement range for many business computers. The right time depends on security support, reliability, performance, warranty coverage, repair costs, and the employee’s work. Replace any computer that cannot run a supported operating system or the software your business requires. Most business computers do not fail all […]