Article Summary: Immutable backups are backup copies that nobody can change or delete during a fixed retention period, including administrators and attackers using stolen credentials. Cyber insurance carriers ask about them on renewal applications because ransomware...
Month: July 2026
5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant
Article Summary: Microsoft has tightened several Microsoft 365 defaults over the past few years, but those changes do not always apply retroactively. Tenants set up before 2022, or configured by a previous IT provider and left alone since, often still have legacy...
How to Prepare Microsoft 365 Permissions for a Safe Copilot Rollout
Article Summary: Microsoft 365 Copilot retrieves files, emails, and chats using each user's existing Microsoft 365 permissions. In most tenants, those permissions are broader than anyone has mapped, because access accumulates across years of projects and staff...
Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding
Article Summary: Offboarding is the final step of a process that started on the employee's first day. Shared logins, forgotten SaaS subscriptions, untracked personal devices, and client relationships locked inside one person's inbox are almost always traceable to...
How to Answer Cyber Insurance Renewal Questions Without Voiding Your Policy
Article Summary: Cyber insurance applications have grown longer because of specific claim trends from 2023 and 2024, including the MOVEit supply-chain breach, the Change Healthcare ransomware incident, and the Arup deepfake wire fraud. Each new section asks about...
How Small Business Ransomware Attacks Work (And How to Protect Against Them)
Article Summary: Most ransomware attacks target small businesses at volume, running through dozens of prospects per month. A 22-person company can be researched in 40 minutes using public records, attacked using session-token theft after a single phishing click, and...






