The unglamorous SMB security stack, with AI last "AI for cybersecurity" sells well; the boring fundamentals still beat it Every vendor at every conference will tell you AI changes everything about defending your network. Some of this is true. Most o... Dec 14, 2025
When ten remote hires start at once, hardware becomes logistics Remote work hardware is a logistics problem disguised as a hardware problem Hire ten people in Q4, ship them laptops in November, and by February the asset spreadsheet does not match MDM, two devices ... Dec 14, 2025
That 60 percent AI helpdesk number is mostly password resets Most "AI helpdesk" pitches are solving the wrong problem If you have sat through a vendor demo recently, you have heard some version of "our AI agent resolves 60% of tickets autonomously." That number... Dec 14, 2025
Offsite DICOM backup for a practice with one PACS server If your PACS is your only copy, you do not have a backup I have seen this go badly more than once. A small imaging practice runs a single PACS server in a back room with RAID 5 and a USB drive someone... Dec 14, 2025
Breaches start with the laptop nobody enrolled The boring stuff is what gets you The breach you read about in the news almost never starts with a clever zero-day. It starts with a laptop that shipped to a sales rep with a default local admin passw... Dec 14, 2025
How much of your IT hardware budget belongs in the cloud? Hardware is the part of IT where SMBs most often spend either too much or, more commonly, not quite enough in exactly the wrong places. The mistake is rarely buying a top-end Dell PowerEdge instead of... Dec 14, 2025
Until an MSP names a response time, the SLA is marketing The MSP industry has a marketing problem and a real problem, and they are not the same. The marketing problem is that every provider's website says the same six things: 24/7 monitoring, proactive supp... Dec 14, 2025
Five things a cloud backup needs before it counts Almost every SMB I talk to thinks they have backups. Most of them have copies. Those are different things, and the difference becomes painfully clear about four hours into a ransomware incident, when ... Dec 14, 2025
Turn off SMS codes and roll out phishing-resistant MFA If you only do one security thing in 2026, do MFA properly. Not the SMS-codes version your bank still uses. The version that actually stops the credential-stuffing and AiTM phishing kits that are doin... Dec 14, 2025
An IT security policy short enough to stay current Most small business "IT security policies" I have read fall into two categories. Either they are a 40-page Word doc copy-pasted from a 2012 SANS template that nobody has opened since the auditor left,... Dec 14, 2025
Antivirus and strong passwords are not cybersecurity basics The cybersecurity advice aimed at small businesses has been frozen in time since about 2014. Install antivirus. Use strong passwords. Maybe think about a firewall. That advice was always a little thin... Dec 14, 2025
Four failure modes in a $25-per-user Odoo project Odoo is cheap to buy and expensive to get wrong Odoo Standard runs about $25 per user per month. Custom is about $38. Next to NetSuite or Dynamics 365 Business Central that is a rounding error, and it... consulting crm erp implementation odoo Jan 18, 2024
