On the night of October 11 through the morning of October 12th, 2026, attackers remotely took over refrigeration at several hundred French supermarkets. The stores belonged to Intermarché, Coopérative U, E.Leclerc, Carrefour, Monoprix, and several
Decades have passed since Cycrest first installed technologies like dumb terminals, NetWare servers, Novell GroupWise, or old-school tape drives that took all night to back up data. Working with our Spokane IT Clients, many of
A 40-person firm weighing Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace will find no shortage of side-by-side grids — storage per user, caps on video calls, which spreadsheet app people like better. Those grids answer a question
By now, the Windows 10 conversation probably feels finished. Support ended October 14, 2025, so you hopefully replaced or upgraded the office desktops, and then the whole thing dropped off your meeting agenda. That was
It’s 8:15 on a Tuesday morning. Payroll needs to run at noon. Your company bookkeeper opens her laptop, types her password, and Microsoft 365 immediately reports the account has been locked. Nobody touched anything. There
The most expensive part of an old business phone system is usually not on your phone bill. Instead, it’s buried in a maintenance renewal for a PBX that’s rarely touched, a carrier agreement that no
A burst of downtime, another missed patch, your team scrambling while ‘the IT person’ puts you on hold. Business owners don’t have time for that kind of chaos. One breach, delay, or outage and your
You might think your cyber insurance policy has you covered, but your carrier is betting on something else entirely: that you already have high-level security controls running—that are in place, and that you can prove
Many small business owners don’t realize how much control their employees have over company computers. When you grant local admin, you’re not “empowering” staff — you’re dissolving every technical barrier between employee intent and business
You want speed. Your team wants less pain. The usual answer—new tech—creates both chaos and resentment. Here’s how you get more velocity out of the team you have, with the tools they already know. Stop
