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
The Most Important Thing to Know Before You Read This Review If your business uses Amazon Business Prime on an Essentials, Small, Medium, or Enterprise plan, CrowdStrike Falcon Go is free for you as of September 2025. Not discounted. Free. The $59.99/device/year list price is included in your existing Business Prime membership. Check your Amazon … Read more
Your Network Is the Attack Surface Nobody Talks About Most small business security conversations focus on devices: the laptops, the phones, the server. Get antivirus on every endpoint, get a password manager, enable MFA. Those are the right things to do. But attackers don’t just target individual devices. They target the network those devices sit … Read more
The Security Gap Most Small Businesses Don’t Know They Have Ransomware attackers dwell inside compromised networks for an average of 16 days before launching their final attack. During those 16 days, they move laterally from device to device, escalate their privileges, identify your backup systems, and disable your defences. The actual ransomware deployment — the … Read more