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FortiBleed: Fortinet Credential Leak, What To Do Now

If your business runs a FortiGate firewall or Fortinet SSL VPN, this week's headlines deserve a measured response, not panic.…

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FortiGate SSL VPN Is Going Away: Migrate to IPsec

If your business runs remote access through a FortiGate firewall, the way your team connects from home is about to…

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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 assumption gets…

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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 door anyway.…

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What Is Business Email Compromise (BEC)?

Every year, businesses lose more money to business email compromise than to ransomware, data breaches, and most other forms of…

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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, one of…

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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 months, cost…

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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 Copilot, and…

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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 insurer wants…

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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 Fortinet devices…

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Toronto security operations center with one analyst at multiple empty workstations, illustrating the staffing shortage at mid-market companies

Why Mid-Market Businesses Can’t Staff Security Internally

Mid-market IT teams are stuck in an impossible spot. Too large to ignore enterprise-grade security requirements. Too small to staff…

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What Is IT Compliance? A Guide for Business Leaders

IT compliance is one of those terms that gets thrown around in boardrooms and vendor pitches — but rarely explained…

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