A safe Microsoft Copilot rollout starts with a permissions audit before any trial license is enabled. Microsoft 365 Copilot retrieves files, emails, and chats using each user’s existing Microsoft 365 permissions. In most tenants, those permissions are broader than anyone has mapped, because access tends to accumulate across years of projects, ad-hoc sharing, and staff changes. Microsoft itself now recommends … Read More
How would you stop AI in an emergency?
If an AI tool in your business did something it shouldn’t, how quickly could you step in and shut it down?
Most businesses are moving fast with AI.
Very few have thought about what happens when it goes wrong…
5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant
Microsoft has tightened several default settings in Microsoft 365 over the past few years. Newer tenants get more protection out of the box than tenants set up before 2022 or so. The problem is that legacy configurations stay in place. A setting changed for new tenants in 2024 doesn’t retroactively change in yours, and historical user consents, inbox rules, or … Read More
Beware these “alerts” from Microsoft Azure
A lot of scams are getting much harder to spot.
They don’t look suspicious anymore. And this latest one is slipping straight past email security.
Most businesses wouldn’t question it, that’s why it’s working…
What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form
Cyber insurance applications include a question that catches a lot of small business owners off guard: “Do you maintain immutable, air-gapped, or offline backups of your critical business data?” Carriers added that question to renewal forms because ransomware operators worked out that the fastest way to force a payout is to wipe the backups first and encrypt everything else after. … Read More
