Threats, Microsoft 365 changes, AI tools your staff are already using, and what insurers are asking for. Written for the businesses running on this stuff, not for security engineers.
Every October brings the same posters about strong passwords. Here's what we'd check first if we walked into your business this month.
CISA confirmed on September 9, 2026 that ransomware gangs are actively exploiting a WatchGuard Firebox flaw patched back in December 2025. The lesson has less to do with one firewall and more to do with how long “patch when convenient” stays convenient.
Between April and May 2026, researchers disclosed prompt-injection flaws in Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce that let a single message trigger data exfiltration — no hacking required, just a well-crafted sentence.
The popular image of ransomware is a headline about a Fortune 500 breach. The data says otherwise, and the gap is getting starker.
Carriers have standardized around a real checklist of controls — and businesses that can't show them are seeing non-renewals, not just higher premiums.
“Shadow AI,” employees pasting company data into ChatGPT and similar tools without approval, is now the norm, not the exception. Here's what that risk looks like in numbers.
Microsoft's own data shows QR-code phishing more than doubled in a single quarter. Here's why “scan this code” is beating spam filters that catch everything else.
Microsoft raised Microsoft 365 pricing across most plans effective July 1, 2026. Here's exactly what moved, by how much, and what's bundled in that wasn't before.
