James Holloway
This article provides general educational information about SOC 2. It is not legal or compliance advice. Businesses pursuing SOC 2 should work with a licensed CPA firm and qualified compliance professionals. Before the Steps: What This Process Actually Looks Like SOC 2 compliance for a small business typically takes 6–18 months from the decision to … Read more
This article provides general educational information about SOC 2. It is not legal or compliance advice. Businesses pursuing SOC 2 should work with a licensed CPA firm and qualified compliance professionals. You Didn’t Wake Up Wanting a SOC 2 Audit. A Prospect Did. Most small businesses don’t pursue SOC 2 compliance because they looked at … Read more
This article provides general educational information about GDPR requirements. It is not legal advice. Small businesses with specific compliance questions should consult a qualified data protection solicitor or an outsourced Data Protection Officer. GDPR Still Applies to Your Small Business. Here’s What That Means in 2026. GDPR does not have a small business exemption. If … Read more
The Most Expensive Security Mistake Most Small Businesses Make Is a Free One Your firewall costs $1,249 for three years. Your endpoint security costs $57/device/year. Your email security costs $3/user/month. The person who clicks the phishing link costs you nothing to train — and yet human error is involved in the majority of small business … Read more
The Most Important Number Is Not the Hardware Price Every firewall article for small businesses makes the same mistake: it leads with hardware cost. The FortiGate 40F is $400. The SonicWall TZ370 hardware is $600. The Meraki MX67 is $595. Those numbers are real — and almost completely useless for budgeting. The number that actually … Read more
The Question Isn’t Which Is Best. It’s Which One Fits Where You Are. Every week, a small business owner reads about endpoint security and comes away more confused than before. One article says antivirus is dead. Another says every business needs EDR. A third says MDR is the only answer. None of them explain how … Read more
MFA Is No Longer Optional. The Question Is Which One to Use. Stolen credentials are now involved in the majority of small business breaches. An employee reuses a password across a work account and a personal service. That service gets breached. The password ends up in a dark web dump. An attacker tries it against … Read more
The Security Layer That Protects Every Device on Your Network — Including the Ones You Can’t Install Software On Your business network has devices you manage and devices you don’t. The laptops get antivirus. The phones get MDM. But what about the network printer, the smart TV in the conference room, the IoT thermostat, the … Read more
The 43-Day Window Attackers Are Counting On When a software vendor publishes a security patch, two things happen simultaneously. First, your systems are protected from the vulnerability — but only once you install the update. Second, every attacker on the planet now has a detailed roadmap of exactly what to attack on any device still … Read more
Why Most Small Businesses Are Approaching This Wrong In 2025, the three most common initial access vectors for small business breaches were phishing, exposed remote access services, and stolen credentials. Not sophisticated exploits. Not zero-day vulnerabilities. Credentials — specifically, usernames and passwords that ended up somewhere they shouldn’t be. Those credentials usually travel a predictable … Read more