At handover, a business laptop starts from a known state. Antivirus is installed, updates are current, security settings are applied, and IT knows who the device belongs to. What becomes harder is keeping that state consistent as the device is used. A Few Months In: An Update Gets Skipped The laptop prompts for a restart to install updates. The employee is in the middle of something and clicks "remind me later." This happens a few more times over the following weeks. Nothing

Multi-factor authentication is often one of the first controls businesses put in place to strengthen identity security. And for good reason: it makes stolen passwords far less useful on their own. But MFA answers only one part of the access question. It helps verify who is signing in. It does not decide whether that person still needs every permission attached to the account. We've written before about how identity is one of several areas that shape a business's overall cyber

“We have a firewall. We run antivirus.” That is often one of the first answers when cybersecurity comes up. Both matter. But they are only part of the picture. A business’s cybersecurity exposure depends on how well identity, endpoints, networks, backups, and business continuity work together. As cloud applications, remote work, and digital operations become part of everyday business, a weakness in one area can affect the protection provided by the others. This article looks