RESEARCH
If You’ve Said It Once… You Haven’t Said It Enough
Ever wonder if your team is actually hearing you? I mean really hearing you—not nodding while they check Slack, not pretending they didn’t just mute you on Zoom. I had this conversation yesterday with a group of CEOs running businesses ...
Cyber Trends
Your P&L Just Got Smarter (And It Didn’t Go to B-School)
Let me tell you a secret your finance team doesn’t want you to know: ChatGPT might be better at reading your financials than they are. Yep. I said it. Let’s set the stage. Imagine having a hyper-intelligent, never-sleeps, doesn’t-bill-by-the-hour finance ...
Think Clicking Links Is Your Biggest Security Risk? Think Again.
You’re a CEO, CFO, or executive, so you’re already on high alert. Every day, a new text pops up from an unknown number: “When will you get here?” “Your FedEx package is stuck in customs—click this link to resolve the ...
Cyber Attacks Are Coming—And No One Is Coming to Save You
For years, businesses have assumed that if a cyberattack was serious enough, the government would step in. That was never true. And now, with recent budget cuts, limited resources, and an increasing volume of attacks, the federal government is even less ...
Business Resilience
Smishing: The Cyber Scam That’s Hitting Your Phone Right Now
My phone goes off. A text from a number I don’t recognize: “I’ll be late for lunch.” I pause. Do I respond? Who is this? Maybe it’s a coworker. A friend. A client. But here’s the truth: It’s not. It’s ...
Is Your Business Lucky—Or Just One Disaster Away From Chaos?
It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day, which means it’s time to ask: What makes you lucky? Do you have a lucky charm? A rabbit’s foot? A four-leaf clover pressed in an old book? Maybe you cross your fingers and hope for ...
Mastering the Art of Effective Email Campaigns
How many emails did you receive today? How many of those emails were marketing messages from a company trying to get you to request more information, buy something, or buy more? Most of the emails you receive daily are part ...
Security Best Practices
If Your IT Support Sucks at the Basics, What’s Happening Behind the Curtain?
Let’s start with a simple truth: it shouldn’t take eight tries to fix your email. If it does? You’ve got a problem. And it’s not just a “my computer is slow” kind of problem. It’s a “how many holes are ...
Your MSP Is Your Most Underutilized Employee—Here’s How to Fix That
Have you ever hired someone with huge potential, only to watch them fall short? Maybe they had the skills, the experience, the drive—on paper, they were perfect. But once they got started, they never quite made the leap. You kept ...
Your Biggest Cybersecurity Threat Is Already on Your Payroll
You know exactly who I’m talking about. They show up late. They do the bare minimum. They’re just engaged enough to keep getting a paycheck—but not enough to actually care. You’ve got employees who are barely fogging a mirror, and ...
More Articles
“Does This Really Apply to Us?” The Compliance Loophole That’s Going to Cost You Millions
Let’s talk about the biggest lie CFOs keep telling themselves: “This compliance stuff doesn’t really apply to us.” I hear it all the time. “We’re too small.” “We don’t handle credit cards.” “We’re under the threshold.” “We only have 47 ...
Don’t You Already DO This for Me? The One Assumption That Could End Your Business
Last week, I had dinner with the CFO of a 100-person logistics company. Not FedEx-scale, but a solid growing company. Their business? Making sure their clients’ packages show up on time, every time. (Unlike my recent experiences with FedEx.) The ...
You Might Be Lucky… But That Won’t Stop the Lawsuit
Let’s talk about luck for a minute. You might think you’re lucky. Or unlucky. Or maybe you don’t believe in luck at all. Here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter. When your client calls to tell you their private information is ...
Your P&L Just Got Smarter (And It Didn’t Go to B-School)
Let me tell you a secret your finance team doesn’t want you to know: ChatGPT might be better at reading your financials than they are. Yep. I said it. Let’s set the stage. Imagine having a hyper-intelligent, never-sleeps, doesn’t-bill-by-the-hour finance ...
If Your IT Support Sucks at the Basics, What’s Happening Behind the Curtain?
Let’s start with a simple truth: it shouldn’t take eight tries to fix your email. If it does? You’ve got a problem. And it’s not just a “my computer is slow” kind of problem. It’s a “how many holes are ...
The Cyber Threat You’re Not Ready For (But Think You Are)
Why Most Incident Response Plans Are Useless—and What That Means for Your Business Imagine your office catches fire. The alarm goes off. Everyone panics. You grab your incident plan from the binder on the wall. You flip to the page ...
What If Your Accountant Was Hacked?
What if I told you the biggest threat to your company’s security wasn’t the teenager in a hoodie halfway across the globe—but your accountant? Yeah, the person who sends you a smiley face after asking for your bank routing number. ...
When the Lawyers Come Knocking: How to Shut Down a Lawsuit Before It Starts
Let’s get one thing straight: When you get breached, you are guilty until proven innocent. That first letter from a law firm? It’s not a heads-up. It’s a warning shot. And how you respond determines whether you end up bleeding ...
Your Employees Are Hoarding Digital Trash—and It’s Going to Cost You Millions
Let’s play a game. When was the last time you took out the trash? No, not metaphorical trash. The real stuff. The kitchen bin—overflowing with last night’s takeout, your kids’ science project leftovers, and something that might have once been ...
Would You Trust the Guy Who Fixes Your Printer to Defend Your Retirement?
We’ve audited 4,627 networks in the last 90 days. What did we find? The same head-scratching, stomach-turning reality again and again: Business owners putting their life’s work—their legacy, their retirement plan—into the hands of someone who just got the printer ...
Your Biggest Risk Just Got Smarter
If you’re not talking to your team about email security right now, you’re walking straight into a breach. Let me say that again: Email is your biggest risk. AI just made it bigger. Here’s the thing—email is the edge. The ...
Are Those Security Policies Useless?
Let me guess—you’ve got security policies. A whole binder full of them, right? Maybe even a fancy PDF with your logo on the cover. You wrote them. You reviewed them. You emailed them to your team. And then? Nothing. Nobody ...
