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Why Are We Paying Nearly the Same Money for Less Protection?
Microsoft just raised prices across most of its business SKUs. Business Basic, Standard, E3, E5, F1, F3. All up. One plan stayed flat: Business Premium. For years, the conversation we’d…
MFA is on. The floor for attacking it just dropped.
MFA was on. It had been on for years. The training had been done, the boxes had been checked. And someone still got into the business manager’s email. Leaders deserve…
Too Many People Have Too Many Keys
When we onboard a new client, one of the first things we look at is who has the keys. Not metaphorically. Literally. Who in this Microsoft 365 tenant can do…
Stop delegating tasks. Delegate the function.
Some leaders think they’re delegating when they’re really just dispatching. The difference shows up in how the work moves. When you delegate a task, you stay in the loop. You’re…
A Practical Guide to AI Data Residency in Canada
Businesses are adopting AI securely by using the security features available in paid accounts. This allows businesses to configure how their data is handled according to their security regulations and preferences. However, one critical factor often overlooked is where that data…
Your Cyber Insurer is Becoming Your Auditor
For most of the last decade, cyber insurance worked like this: you filled out an application, attested to a handful of controls, paid the premium, and filed the policy in…
Buying tools is easy. Running them is the actual job.
Any IT company or team can swipe a credit card and sign up for intrusion monitoring, backup software, endpoint protection, and spam filtering before lunch. The vendors have made it…
A Question That Can Reframe How You Think About IT
“I honestly have no idea if we’re spending our IT budget well. I don’t even know what question to ask.” That’s the kind of thing some leaders say when they’re…
A Business Guide to AI Policy
The Reality of Unstructured AI Use AI use is already happening in most organizations, whether it’s formally approved or not. Without clear expectations, employees make individual judgment calls about what data to…