Most small business owners assume data breach laws are a big-company problem. They apply to hospital systems and national retailers, not a 20-person firm in Marietta. That assumption is wrong, and it can be expensive. Georgia’s data breach notification law applies to businesses of every size, and if you hold customers’ personal information, you’re on […]
If you’re a defense contractor or a supplier in the defense supply chain, you’ve probably heard the news and felt a wave of relief: on July 13, 2026, the Department of Defense suspended CMMC Phase 2, the milestone that would have required third-party certification of your cybersecurity by November 10, 2026. The CMMC Phase 2 […]
It’s back-to-school time! When the kids are back on laptops and tablets every night — often on the same Wi-Fi and sometimes the same devices you use for work — the line between “home network” and “business network” disappears. And attackers know it. Back-to-school cybersecurity isn’t a topic for the school district’s IT department. For […]
Most businesses don’t think seriously about disaster recovery until something goes wrong. That’s understandable. It’s easy to deprioritize planning for events that haven’t happened yet. But the cost of that delay becomes very clear, very quickly, when systems go down. The average downtime following a ransomware attack now stands at 24 days, according to 2025 […]
Artificial intelligence is now central to cybersecurity. Teams use AI to detect threats faster, surface unusual behavior, and cut response times. At the same time, attackers are using AI to build more convincing scams, automate intrusions, and scale operations that once required significant technical skill. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025, […]
Cybersecurity awareness isn’t just an IT department concern anymore. For small and mid-sized businesses, it’s one of the most practical things you can invest time in right now. The numbers make that clear. Cyberattacks on SMBs are up 16% in 2025, and the average breach now costs $140,000 — a figure that doesn’t include the […]