by Alan Bryant | Jul 13, 2026 | Tech Update
AI is creeping into more parts of business than most people realize. It writes emails, helps analyze data, and powers tools your team might be using every day. And in many cases, it’s been adopted quickly. Which is great… until you stop and think about what would...
by Alan Bryant | Jul 13, 2026 | Tech Update
Most backup conversations end a little too early. The question gets asked: “Are we backed up?” The answer is, of course, yes. Jobs are running, reports are clean, and everything looks as it should. That’s where the conversation often stops. What isn’t always...
by Alan Bryant | Jul 10, 2026 | Microsoft
Microsoft has tightened several default settings in Microsoft 365 over the past few years. Newer tenants get more protection out of the box than tenants set up before 2022 or so. The problem is that legacy configurations stay in place. A setting changed for new...
by Alan Bryant | Jul 6, 2026 | Tech Update
There’s a new type of scam doing the rounds… and this one’s a little more convincing than most. It looks like a genuine alert from Microsoft Azure Monitor.
It comes from a real Microsoft domain, and it lands in your inbox without being flagged as suspicious. That’s...
by Alan Bryant | Jul 6, 2026 | Tech Update
You’re the IT director, of course you already have an incident response plan. It’s documented, it’s been reviewed, and it sits alongside everything else you’re accountable for around security and risk. You know where it is, and you know what it says. The...
by Alan Bryant | Jul 5, 2026 | IT Management
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 operators...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 30, 2026 | Cybersecurity
Most cyberattacks do not start with a sophisticated intrusion. They start with a click on a personal email, a reused password, or a file uploaded to a familiar cloud service because the approved option felt slower.The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 29, 2026 | Tech Update
You’ve probably invested a lot of time in security awareness training. You’ve rolled out programs, reviewed phishing simulation results, and reported completion rates. On paper, everything looks responsible and structured. Yet incidents still happen. ...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 29, 2026 | Tech Update
For the past year or so, it’s felt like every Windows update came with three new AI features attached. Some of them are genuinely useful. Some feel like they’re there because they can be. So, it’s interesting to see Microsoft take a slightly different tone with recent...
by Alan Bryant | Jun 25, 2026 | New Technology
Your team locks everything down with passwords. Some are strong, some are not, and most have been reused somewhere over the years. Every month, IT fields reset requests. Every year, the same breach reports list stolen credentials as the leading cause.There is now a...
