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Why Your ‘Off-Site’ Backup Isn’t Really Off-Site (And Why That Matters)
I need to tell you about a conversation I had last year with a property management firm that thought they had off-site backup. Their office manager was taking home an external hard drive every Friday night and bringing it back Monday morning. When I asked them what would happen if there was a fire in
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The Government Just Banned Most Home Routers. What Does That Mean?
A client forwarded me a message from her internet provider a few weeks back. It warned that certain router brands might have security issues and suggested she consider upgrading to a managed service. She wanted to know if she should be worried. I looked at the message and told her two things. First, the warning
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The AI That Was Too Dangerous to Release Just Got Leaked
I have been saying for a while now that the AI gold rush is moving faster than the guardrails can keep up. Recently, that point made itself. Anthropic, the company behind Claude and one of the AI providers I have generally considered more thoughtful than the rest of the pack, built something called Mythos. It
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Remote Work Security: What Actually Matters for Professional Services Firms
Remote work is not a temporary arrangement that professional services firms are still adjusting to. It has been five years. It is the baseline. Most firms’ security posture still treats it like a guest bedroom situation rather than a permanent part of how the business operates. This is not about blame. The shift happened fast,
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Sustainable Technology Practices for Professional Services Firms
Earth Day feels like the right time to talk about technology waste, not because I am particularly sentimental about the occasion, but because most professional services firms are sitting on a device lifecycle management problem that is quietly costing them money. Nobody is talking about it in those terms. I am also going to be
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The Government Might Have to Reissue Every Social Security Number in America. What Does That Mean for Your Business?
Two years ago, that sentence would have sounded like paranoid fiction. It does not sound like that right now. I want to be clear upfront: I’m not here to argue politics. I genuinely do not care which side of the DOGE debate you’re on. What I do care about is that the data situation quietly
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