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On September 10, the New York State Department of Financial Services published guidance on how regulated entities should conduct and use risk assessments under Part 500. The first sentence of the guidance says: “This Guidance does not create new obligations.” That’s technically accurate, and also a reason to read more carefully, not less. What the...
Artificial Intelligence, Small Business Cybersecurity
A thousand days since ChatGPT launched, the coverage hasn’t slowed down. What has changed is the quality of the question being asked. Early on, the question was whether AI was real. Then it was whether AI would take everyone’s jobs. Now — at least in the places that are thinking about it seriously — the...
Small Business Cybersecurity
Most smaller businesses have some version of an incident response plan: a document on a shared drive, a general understanding of who calls whom if something goes wrong, or just the IT vendor’s number saved in someone’s phone. None of that is the same as having worked through what actually happens when an incident unfolds,...
Small Business Cybersecurity
Last year’s ransomware data looked, briefly, like good news. Ransom payments fell roughly 35% in 2024, then another 8% in 2025, and some outlets called it a turning point, which is a reasonable thing to say about data that trends the right direction. The problem is that the payment number and the underlying threat are...
Manufacturing
If you’ve been waiting to sort out your cybersecurity compliance because CMMC is on hold, this is the article worth reading before 2027. The pause is real. Phase II requirements, the third-party assessments by certified C3PAO organizations, are now suspended by binding acquisition regulation, not just an administrative memo. A class deviation signed September 3,...
Cybersecurity Bulletin, Small Business Cybersecurity
For most of the last decade, “add MFA” was the closest thing to a silver bullet that cybersecurity had. Multi-factor authentication (the text message, the authenticator app push, the numerical code) gave organizations something passwords alone couldn’t: a second barrier that made account compromises significantly harder. New Q2 2026 Research from LevelBlue suggests attackers have...
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