Employees often use personal devices for work before the business has made a decision about it. They add work email to a phone, download a file to a home laptop, or sign into a company app from a computer shared with family. Once business data is stored on a personal...
Administrator access often starts with one request. An employee needs to install a printer, update a specialist program, or change a setting on their computer. Giving them administrator access gets the job done. The problem is that the access usually stays after the...
Most owners only look at their IT when something has already gone wrong. A file won’t open, a laptop won’t start, or an invoice gets paid into a scammer’s account. Fixing it at that point costs more than preventing it would have. Almost none of it...
By 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...
Cyber 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...
Someone leaves the company on a Friday. By Monday, their email account is disabled, and their laptop is back in the pile. What nobody checks is their login to the project management tool they signed up for in Q3, the cloud storage folder they shared with a contractor,...
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