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Right now, with no special tools, someone could send an email that looks like it came from your company.

The From line would show your domain, your logo could be pasted into the message, and it could ask one of your clients to pay an invoice or update banking details. This is called email spoofing, and it is one of the most common ways fraud against your clients and suppliers begins.

Microsoft has tightened several Microsoft 365 defaults over the past few years, but those changes do not always apply retroactively. Tenants set up before 2022, or configured by a previous IT provider and left alone since, often still have legacy settings in place around file sharing, external email forwarding, third-party app consent, audit log retention, and MFA enforcement. Five settings worth verifying.

By the time an employee hands in their notice, the decisions that will make their departure clean or messy have already been made. They were made in the first weeks of the person’s tenure, when nobody was paying close attention because the new hire had just arrived and there were a hundred other things to do. A shared login here, a quick SaaS sign-up there, a personal laptop used until the company hardware arrived. By month six, none of those feel like decisions at all. They feel like how things are.

This post covers what’s really going wrong when offboarding takes three weeks, the four onboarding shortcuts that guarantee a painful exit, how to retrofit hygiene on the team you already have, and what your IT provider should be doing at onboarding that probably isn’t happening.

If you have a cyber insurance renewal coming up, the application is probably longer than the one you filled in last time. It's also more specific. Each new question maps to a control that, if missing, allowed a major 2023 or 2024 claim to escalate. The wording reflects how carriers responded to losses they paid in 2023 and 2024, and how you answer the form matters more than it used to.

This post covers why the application got longer, what each new section is asking, how to answer honestly without overstating your controls, and what to fix in the 30 days before submission. The expensive mistake on a cyber insurance application is rescission, where a future claim is denied because the carrier finds that the controls you declared were not in place at the time.

Your team locks everything down with passwords. Some are strong, some are not, and most have been reused somewhere over the years. Every month, IT fields reset requests. Every year, the same breach reports list stolen credentials as the leading cause.

There is now a more effective path, and it does not require users to memorize anything.

Passkey migration is the process of moving from traditional passwords to passkeys: a form of phishing-resistant authentication that uses your device's built-in security instead of a shared secret.

It is practical, it is already supported by most major platforms, and the business case is hard to argue with.