Most Small Businesses Have This Wrong Their email is in Microsoft 365. Their files are in OneDrive or SharePoint. Everything is in the cloud. So it must be backed up. That assumption is one of the biggest risks I see with Microsoft 365 backup for small business environments. And it is completely understandable. Microsoft is a trusted platform. The data is in the cloud. It feels safe. But there is a difference between availability and backup. And that difference matters a lot

HIPAA compliance for law firms The Assumption That Puts Law Firms at Risk A law firm reached out to me because they were dealing with an email spoofing problem. Unauthorized parties were sending messages that looked like they came from the firm's own domain. Clients were receiving fake emails. The firm had no idea how long it had been happening. When I got into their environment, the email issue was just the beginning. All company files lived on one staff member's computer. E

Microsoft 365 security for small business showing default settings are not secure or compliant It Started With One Compromised Email A defense contractor reached out to me after one of his email accounts got compromised. At first, it sounded simple. Reset the password. Secure the account. Move on. It was not simple. Five hours later, after multiple calls with his email provider's support line, the issue was resolved. The bill for that single incident came out to over one thou

Should Small Businesses Move to the Cloud "Should we just move everything to the cloud?" I get this question a lot. And I get why. The pitch sounds great. Lower hardware costs, access from anywhere, no more dealing with servers. For a small business trying to keep overhead down, it is easy to see the appeal. I just finished helping a client make exactly this move. They were running a full on-premise environment. Servers, local file storage, everything. But their specialty sof