A complete round-up of our small business cybersecurity essentials—from ditching consumer email to implementing passkeys—plus details on my upcoming Tech Risk Management session at West Slope Startup Week.

Passkeys are the future, but legacy platforms and slow vendors mean you still have to deal with passwords today. A dedicated team password manager bridges the gap, eliminating shared spreadsheets and credential reuse while locking down admin control.

Passwords force your team into bad security habits and waste hours on reset tickets. Passkeys replace fragile secrets with asymmetric cryptography, killing phishing risk and authentication friction in one move.

You don't need a million-dollar security budget to keep your business safe—you just need to stop leaving obvious targets open. Here is a practical, pragmatic approach to locking down your access, setting real policies, and building basic operational resilience without grinding development to a halt.

Hyperscalers and SaaS providers are using cheap tokens and entry-level tiers to embed AI agents into your core workflows. Here is how the AI lock-in trap works, why hidden feature paywalls hit hard on day two, and how to architect against it.

Think free email is saving you money? Think again. From zero access control to feeding ad tech engines with your proprietary data, running your business on consumer Gmail is an engineering disaster waiting to happen.

Venture capital hype is driving scaling startups to run their organizations deep in the red. This is a Red Flag Warning where executive intent completely outpaces infrastructure reality, and how to fix it before the engine room screams.

AI is a high-leverage tool, but it is a hollow foundation. I refuse to tie my business outcomes to a layer of technology that still whiffs on the human context of time and payroll. It’s time for a 'Rehumanization' of the corporate tech stack.

Wall Street is cheering for headcount cuts while being fed a half-baked cake of AI hype. I’m calling a Red Flag Warning: the conditions are ripe for things to go sideways, and it’s time to prioritize people and pragmatic automation over corporate smoke.