The call usually comes in the same shape. It is a weekday morning, the voice on the other end is calm in the way people are calm right before they are not, and the sentence is some version of “I think something is wrong with our computers.” What happens in the next sixty minutes tends […]
Author: resoluteitsecurity
Your Employees Are Already Using AI. Make It Safe.
Banning AI tools just blindfolds you to how they are used. A one-page policy a busy person will actually follow, and the safe channel that replaces the ban.
Your Weakest Link Is a Vendor You Forgot About
When you give a vendor access, you inherit their security whether you like it or not. The spreadsheet-and-an-honest-hour fix for third-party risk.
Why Your Team Fights MFA (and How to Win Them Over)
The hard part of multi-factor authentication has almost nothing to do with technology. How to make the friction small enough that nobody bothers to fight it.
The Backup You’ve Never Tested Is Not a Backup
Backing up faithfully for three years means nothing if you have never restored from it. Why untested backups fail, and the afternoon that fixes it.
Post-Quantum Cryptography for People Who Aren’t Cryptographers
The marketing emails are alarming. The actual threat is real but boring. Here’s what your SMB should do (mostly nothing) and what you should plan for.
Zero Trust Requires a High-Trust Team
Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team is, weirdly, the best explanation I’ve found for why Zero Trust projects fail. The irony is the lesson.
Compliance Is Not Security (But It’s Not Nothing)
Equifax was compliant. Target was compliant. Anthem was compliant. The frameworks worked exactly as designed. The breaches still happened. Here’s the distinction that matters.
We’re Too Small to Be a Target: the Most Expensive Sentence in SMB Cybersecurity
I hear it every week. The world that statement assumed hasn’t existed for a decade. Here’s what a 30-person company actually faces.
When Your MSP Says They Handle Security… Here’s How to Find Out If That’s True
Five direct questions to ask your MSP. The answers tell you whether ‘handles security’ is a real promise or just marketing.