Insights
These articles help you ask better questions, evaluate the answers, and decide what your organization should do next.
Fit your security program to what you can operate
Right-size governance to the owners, providers, and evidence-review capacity a small organization actually has.
Who is allowed to remote into your network?
Remote monitoring and management tools are legitimate and useful, and an unmanaged list of them is a standing gap. Ask which ones are authorized and what stops the rest.
What a patch report does and does not prove
A completion percentage is not the same as evidence that exposure is going down. Ask for the record that shows it.
Who owns the gaps between your security providers?
Trace shared security work from trigger to completion so responsibility does not disappear at a handoff.
What a backup report does and does not prove
Separate successful backup jobs from evidence that your organization can recover a usable service.
What your MSP contract actually covers
Read your managed service agreement alongside operational evidence to understand coverage and responsibilities.
Microsoft 365 needs a security plan of its own
Check how accounts, access policies, and operational responsibilities protect your use of Microsoft 365.
Five questions to ask your IT provider this quarter
Use these questions to turn a provider update into clear responsibilities, evidence, and next steps.
Who owns your edge equipment?
State-sponsored actors are opportunistically compromising routers through defaults nobody rotated, not through exotic tradecraft. Ask who owns the configuration.
When the patch loses the race
A perfect patching record is no longer enough on its own. Exploitation increasingly starts before the fix ships. Ask what reduces what an attacker can reach, not just how fast you patch.
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