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Microsoft 365 Business Premium vs. Basic: What SMBs Need
You are pricing out Microsoft 365 for your team and the spreadsheet math is doing what it always…
Nishant Nekkanty
Email Security for Small Business: What Your MSP Should Be Doing
Most small businesses assume their email is secure because it’s hosted on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. That…
Paul Thresher
Microsoft 365 DLP Policy Setup: What IT Teams Get Wrong
You built the DLP policy. The compliance checkbox is checked. Three months later, sensitive data walks out the…
Nishant Nekkanty
What Is Business Email Compromise (BEC)?
Every year, businesses lose more money to business email compromise than to ransomware, data breaches, and most other…
Paul Thresher
The Canvas Data Breach: What the ShinyHunters Attack Means for Your Business
In late April 2026, a threat actor known as ShinyHunters quietly compromised Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS,…
Paul Thresher
What Ontario’s First-Ever PHIPA Fines Tell Us About Healthcare IT in 2026
In October 2023, a ransomware attack against a shared IT vendor knocked five southwestern Ontario hospitals offline for…
Paul Thresher
What Is Shadow AI? Security Risks and How to Respond
Your employees are already using AI. They’re drafting emails in ChatGPT, summarizing contracts in Claude, building reports with…
Paul Thresher
MSSP vs MSP: What’s the Difference?
Your CFO wants to know why the cybersecurity line item doubled. Your IT manager wants 24/7 monitoring. Your…
Andrei Fomitchev
How to Evaluate an MSP Before You Sign
You’re comparing three MSPs. Their proposals look similar. Everyone claims 24/7 support, a dedicated account manager, and “proactive…
Andrei Fomitchev
FortiGate CVEs and the Patch Management Problem
Another quarter, another FortiGate CVE with a CVSS score north of 9.0. If you manage a fleet of…
Paul Thresher
