Zero trust rides on the ISO 9001 procedures you already wrote If you came here looking for a vendor pitch about how your zero trust deployment will magically satisfy your ISO 9001 auditor, this is the wrong post. ISO 9001:2015 is a quality management standard. I... Feb 8, 2026
Ask any MSSP which alerts the AI actually closes "AI-driven" is doing extraordinary work in MSSP marketing right now. Every vendor has it on the homepage. Half of them ship Microsoft Defender for Business plus a few SOAR playbooks and call it AI. Th... Feb 4, 2026
ISO 9001:2015 will not make your company secure Let me get the loud part out of the way. ISO 9001:2015 is not a cybersecurity standard. It is a quality management standard. If a consultant has been telling you that getting ISO 9001 certified will m... Jan 29, 2026
3-2-1-1-0 for DICOM: the second 1 is the one that matters A radiology practice loses access to its PACS on a Tuesday morning. The on-call radiologist cannot read the overnight studies. The reception staff cannot pull priors for the day's appointments. The cl... Jan 22, 2026
IT asset management is where your software spend hides Somewhere on your invoices is a subscription nobody can account for. The version we see most often: 47 Adobe Creative Cloud seats billed every month, and 19 people who remember installing it. Sometime... Jan 21, 2026
Consumer or business-class hardware, eighteen months in The cheapest laptop is rarely the cheapest laptop I once watched a 30-person agency save about $400 per machine by buying consumer-grade Best Buy laptops for their designers. Within eighteen months th... Jan 21, 2026
Which of your call types should an AI IVR take? "Press 1 for billing" is dead. What replaces it isn't always better. Every IVR vendor pitching SMBs in 2026 tells the same story. Their AI listens like a human, resolves issues without an agent, and s... Jan 21, 2026
Enroll the device before it ships: zero-touch in practice The fantasy of zero-touch, and the reality If you have ever shipped a fresh MacBook to a new hire in Phoenix, watched them open the box, and stood by while Apple Business Manager handed the device cle... Dec 26, 2025
$200 more per remote laptop avoids $2,000 of friction later The laptop you ship matters more than the policy you write Ask ten SMB owners what their remote workforce strategy is and nine of them will mention VPN, MFA, and "we have a policy." Ask what laptop th... Dec 15, 2025
AI-driven procurement was called analytics in 2014 What "AI-driven procurement" actually does I have been pitched at least a dozen "AI-powered procurement platforms" in the last year. About three of them do something useful. The rest are a dashboard a... Dec 14, 2025
Has anyone restored from your offsite backup this year? The backup nobody tested Most ransomware victims I have met had backups. They just did not have working backups. The Veeam job ran every night. The dashboard showed green. Then on the morning the encr... Dec 14, 2025
Every hardware quote has one line item you do not need Stop buying servers like it's 2014 The hardware quote your VAR just sent you has at least one line item you do not need. I am willing to bet on it. Probably the dual-Xeon tower with 128 GB of RAM, siz... Dec 14, 2025
