Good morning. The weekend’s news keeps circling back to accounts and identities that were supposed to be closed, verified, or watched, and were not. An employee who left in May, a recruiter who does not exist, a download button on a page that looks official, an AI agent that wandered somewhere nobody expected. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
Good morning. The thread running through today’s news is trust in software you did not write and did not choose. A plugin your developer tools install on their own, a phone in your employee’s pocket that is being driven by an AI, a version of Windows that quietly stops getting patched next month. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
Good morning. There is one question sitting underneath almost everything in today’s news, which is what gets to act on your behalf and how sure you are about it. A box that decides who is logged in, a phone system that signs its own passes, a laptop that proves it belongs to your domain, an AI agent working a task list without a person watching. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
Good morning. Today’s stories are mostly about the gap between what a business believes about its own technology and what turns out to be true under pressure. A recovery plan that reads well, a plugin nobody has thought about in years, a verified brand account, a budget line that assumes next year looks like this one. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
Good morning. Most of today’s news is not about anything new arriving in your business. It is about things you already own and already turned on, quietly accumulating risk while nobody looked at them. A mail appliance, a decade of shared folders, a plugin that updates itself, a password somebody reused. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
Good morning. The weekend’s news has an awkward theme running through it, which is that the things you count on to protect you can also be the things that fail you. A security patch that breaks remote access, a firewall built to keep people out, a verification process that got played, a vendor relationship you cannot easily leave. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
Good morning. Three of today’s five stories come down to the same uncomfortable idea, which is that the thing letting an attacker in is not broken, it is working exactly as designed and being used by the wrong person. A firewall console, an employee’s phone, a marketing email platform. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
Good morning. Two days after the largest Patch Tuesday Microsoft has ever shipped, a researcher published a working exploit that beats one of the fixes, which is a useful reminder that patching is a floor and not a ceiling. The rest of today’s news lands on the same nerve from different angles, because most of what showed up in the last twenty four hours is about controls that look solid on paper and turn out to have a way around them. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
Good morning. Yesterday was Patch Tuesday, and it was the biggest one Microsoft has ever shipped, which sounds alarming until you read the part where the researchers themselves say the pile is getting taller without getting much more dangerous. That tension runs through most of today’s news, because AI is now producing both the volume of findings your team has to sort through and the speed at which attackers move through what nobody sorted. Here are the five stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...
The last roundup went out Thursday, so five days of news piled up behind the holiday, and a striking amount of it lands on the same nerve: the software other people run on your behalf, whether that is the platform your IT provider uses to reach your machines, the store engine behind your online orders, or the vendor who scans a customer’s ID at your front counter. Here are the six stories that matter most if you are running a small or midsize business, or leading its IT. ...