James Holloway
The Short Answer Yes. For most small businesses with a basic IT-aware person on staff, Bitdefender GravityZone is the best value endpoint security product in the market in 2026. The detection scores are among the highest of any vendor in independent testing. The agent is lightweight enough to run on older hardware. The management console … Read more
Antivirus Is Not Enough Anymore. Here’s What Is. In 2025, 82% of successful cyberattacks used no malware at all. They used legitimate tools already on your computer — PowerShell scripts, remote desktop connections, built-in Windows utilities — to move through your network invisibly. Traditional antivirus, which detects threats by matching files against a database of … Read more
Two Strong Tools, Two Different Priorities If you’ve narrowed your shortlist to 1Password and Dashlane, you’ve made a good decision: both are genuinely well-built business password managers, neither has suffered a major breach, and both will solve the credential chaos that makes small businesses vulnerable. The question isn’t whether either is good enough — it’s … Read more
The Weakest Link in Your Business Security Is Probably a Password Stolen credentials were the initial access vector in 22% of all confirmed breaches in the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. That makes compromised passwords the single largest cause of breaches — ahead of phishing, ahead of unpatched software. And the reason it keeps … Read more
First, the Answer to the Question You’re Probably Already Asking If you’ve been searching for “Perimeter 81” and ended up here, there’s something you need to know before we go any further: Perimeter 81 no longer exists as an independent product. Since 2023, Perimeter 81 has been owned by Check Point Software Technologies and renamed … Read more
Your Business Traffic Is Exposed More Than You Think Public Wi-Fi at a coffee shop takes roughly 90 seconds for an attacker to intercept unencrypted traffic. Your employee working from a hotel, a co-working space, or even a home broadband connection is sending data — client emails, login credentials, invoice files, payroll details — in … Read more
Two Very Different Tools, One Important Question You’ve probably seen both names. CrowdStrike is the one that showed up in the news after a faulty July 2024 update crashed 8.5 million Windows computers worldwide. Malwarebytes is the one your IT-savvy friend probably recommended years ago for cleaning up an infected laptop. In 2026, both have … Read more
The Threat Is Real — and It’s Aimed at You 43% of all cyberattacks in 2025 targeted small businesses, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Not enterprises. Not banks. Companies just like yours. And the average breach now costs an SMB $254,000 — enough to close most businesses with fewer than 20 employees. … Read more