The IT Checklist Every Manufacturer Should Run Before Something Breaks
Manufacturing has been the most ransomware-targeted industry for four consecutive years. Attacks rose 61% in 2025. The average cost of unplanned downtime is$260,000 per hour….
Beyond ChatGPT: New AI Tools Worth Adding to Your Business Stack
By now you know ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini. The tools making the biggest difference in day-to-day business operations right now are not always the ones dominating the headlines. Here is what is actually worth paying attention to. Luma Labs: AI Agents for Your Entire Creative Workflow We recently started using Luma Labs and it goes……
Your Patch Window Just Disappeared. Here’s What That Means for Your Business.
In 2018, attackers took an average of 756 days to exploit a newly disclosed vulnerability. By 2025 that number had dropped to 23 days. In 2026, it is sitting at roughly 10 hours (I wish this was a typo too). A vulnerability gets disclosed in the morning and by the afternoon attackers are already scanning……
The Pentagon Just Built Its AI Dream Team. Here Are the Eight Companies That Made the Cut.
A few months ago, we wrote about Anthropic refusing to remove safety guardrails from its Pentagon contract and getting cut from the deal entirely. Last week, the story got its ending. What Just Happened On May 1st, the Department of Defense announced classified AI agreements with eight major technology companies: OpenAI, Google, SpaceX, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web……
Your April 2026 Data Breach Roundup
April brought tax season malware, bank data leaking onto dark web forums, a county government knocked offline on April Fools Day (not a joke), and a Patch Tuesday so large it broke its own record. If March felt busy, April did not slow down….
Does Your IT Provider Have Answers to These Five Questions?
Most business owners have a general sense of whether their IT is working. The lights are on, emails are sending, and nobody is complaining today. But “probably fine” is not a security posture. And once a year, every business owner should sit down with their IT provider and ask the questions that actually matter. Not……
Inside a Business Breach: From Entry to Recovery
That is not how it works. Most of the time, you do not find out for months. According to IBM’s 2025 threat data, the average attacker spends 241 days inside a network before detection. Eight months of quiet access while your team sends emails, processes payroll, and shares client files without knowing someone else is watching. Here is……
$9.5 Million Stolen in 6 Days. Apple Had No Idea.
Fifty people downloaded what looked like a legitimate app from the Apple App Store last week. By the time Apple removed it six days later, $9.5 million in cryptocurrency was gone. This is not a story about crypto. It is a story about trusting the wrong thing because it came from the right place. What……
The Hidden IT Costs Most SMBs Don’t Know They’re Paying
Your IT invoice says one number. Your actual IT spend says another. For most small and mid-sized businesses, the gap between those two figures is significant, and nobody on the provider side is in a hurry to point it out. Here is what is quietly draining your IT budget every month. The Bait-and-Switch Quote Most……
Your RSA 2026 Rundown
44,000 cybersecurity professionals descended on San Francisco last week for RSA Conference 2026. The theme was community. The actual conversation was AI, AI, and more AI (with a side of passwords being declared officially dead)….
