Speakers’ Corner
Plain talk on IT, security, and staying out of trouble.
Notes from the desk on the things that actually keep a business safe and running. No jargon for its own sake, no fear-selling. Just the standards we hold, explained the way we'd explain them to a client.
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Your vendors are your attack surface. And you are someone else’s.
Supply chain breaches have quadrupled in five years. The risk runs both ways: the vendor who can compromise you, and the client who will ask hard questions about your security.
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The phishing email you were trained to spot no longer exists
AI has erased the typos, the awkward grammar, and even the need for email. When a voice on the phone can be cloned, the defence changes from spotting fakes to verifying requests.
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Attackers don’t break in anymore. They log in.
Most modern breaches involve no malware at all. Attackers sign in with stolen credentials and look exactly like an employee. Here’s what that changes about defending a small business.
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“Too small to target” is the most expensive myth in IT
The businesses that get hit hardest are almost never the ones an attacker chose on purpose. Here's why “we're too small to bother with” is exactly the assumption that gets a company breached.
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The backup you've never tested is not a backup
Nearly every business we assess has backups. Far fewer have backups that would actually bring them back. The difference only shows up on the worst day — unless you check first.
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Microsoft 365 is secure. Your configuration probably isn't.
Moving to Microsoft 365 doesn't make you secure by default. The platform is strong; the out-of-the-box settings are not. Here are the gaps we find most often.
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Why we still answer the phone
Enterprise standards and a human who knows your name aren't supposed to be a trade-off. Somewhere along the way the industry decided they were. We didn't.
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