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By harryth_xitx
July 26, 2026

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in IT Contracts: 4 Commitments That Actually Matter

Most business owners skim the continuity and recovery section of an IT services agreement. The language sounds thorough, the vendor sounds confident, and everyone at the table is ready to move on. That is...

Blog, Threat Intelligence

By harryth_xitx
July 26, 2026

Ransomware Backup Deletion: Why Attackers Destroy Your Backups Before You Ever See a Ransom Note

By the time ransomware announces itself, the real damage is already done. According to incident response data from 2024 into 2025, ransomware backup deletion is the first measurable objective attackers pursue after gaining a...

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By harryth_xitx
July 25, 2026

IT Vendor Staff Vetting: 4 Questions Every CEO Should Ask Before Handing Over Access

You evaluate contracts, check references, maybe request a sample report. But almost no vendor evaluation ever reaches the most uncomfortable question: who, exactly, is the person sitting inside your network right now - and...

Blog, Threat Intelligence

By harryth_xitx
July 25, 2026

Configuration Chaining: How Attackers Link Misconfigurations to Breach Small Businesses Without Triggering a Single Alert

Configuration chaining is not a new concept in offensive security research, but 2024 and 2025 CISA advisories have made one thing unmistakably clear: threat actors have operationalized it at scale against small and mid-sized...

Blog, Buyer Guides

By harryth_xitx
July 24, 2026

Cyber Insurance Renewal Questions: A CEO’s Framework for Evaluating IT Vendors

Every year your cyber liability carrier sends you a cyber insurance renewal questionnaire. Most business owners treat it as a paperwork chore - hand it to IT, sign at the end, move on. That...

AI for Business, Blog

By harryth_xitx
July 24, 2026

AI Reporting Workflow: Turn a 4-Hour Report Into 20 Minutes

An AI reporting workflow is one of the highest-return moves a small business owner can make right now. Not because AI is magic — but because manual reporting is one of the most reliably...

Blog, News & Analysis

By harryth_xitx
July 24, 2026

Deepfake Voice and Video Fraud: Why a Phone Call Can No Longer Protect Your Small Business from Wire Fraud

In 2025, AI-enabled impersonation attacks have moved from a headline curiosity to a documented, repeatable threat against small and mid-sized business finance and operations teams. The pattern is consistent: an employee receives an urgent...

Blog, News & Analysis

By harryth_xitx
July 24, 2026

Business Process Impersonation: How BEC Has Evolved Beyond Phishing in 2025

This style of attack — sometimes called vendor impersonation or invoice fraud — is not a new threat with a new name. It is a meaningful shift in how organized attackers now target small...

AI for Business, Blog

By harryth_xitx
July 23, 2026

AI Adoption for Small Businesses: Why Pilots Die in 60 Days – and the 3 Fixes That Actually Work

AI adoption for small businesses has a problem nobody in the vendor community will say out loud: most pilots fail before they prove anything. A CEO reads something promising, signs up for a tool,...

Blog, Threat Intelligence

By harryth_xitx
July 23, 2026

Ransomware Target Selection: How Affiliates Pick Small Businesses Before Writing a Line of Code

Ransomware target selection is not random — and it never was. What 2024 and early 2025 incident response data now confirms is that the decision to attack a specific small business is typically made...

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