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AI, Business

Bridging the Cybersecurity Gap for SMBs

I recently joined the MSP 1337 podcast with Chris Johnson to talk about something I’ve been thinking about for years:

Small and midsize businesses are being asked to operate with enterprise-level security expectations — without enterprise-level resources.

That gap is becoming impossible to ignore.
And AI is accelerating both sides of the problem.

Attackers are moving faster.
Infrastructure is becoming noisier.
Compliance requirements are multiplying.
Meanwhile, SMBs and MSPs are still expected to somehow manage everything with limited staff, fragmented tools, and endless alerts.

That model is cracking.

Btw, you can listen to it here:
– Apple Podcasts
– Spotify

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AI, Business

Why SMBs Struggle with Cybersecurity: The Real Challenges

I recently had a conversation on The Changelog, and it reinforced something I’ve seen over and over again:

SMB cybersecurity isn’t just hard — it’s structurally broken.

Not because people don’t care.
Not because tools don’t exist.
Because the entire model assumes resources that SMBs simply don’t have.

The uncomfortable truth

Security today is designed for enterprises and downsized for everyone else.
That doesn’t work.
Enterprise model:

  • Dedicated security teams
  • Time to triage alerts
  • Budget to stack tools

SMB reality:

  • One DevOps person wearing five hats
  • Compliance pressure (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC…)
  • A pile of tools that don’t talk to each other

So what happens?

They install more tools…generate more alerts…and end up less certain about their security posture.
That’s the paradox.

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AI, Business

SMB Cybersecurity Is Broken — Here’s What We’re Doing About It

SMB cybersecurity is a mess. Yes – It’s 2026 and it’s broken. Big time.

Too many tools.
Too many dashboards.
Too many alerts that nobody has time—or context—to act on.

And the result?
A false sense of security.

You can have RMM, MDM, EDR, SIEM, compliance tools… and still be exposed. Not because the tools are bad—but because the system is unworkable for the people actually running it.

Most small and mid-sized businesses don’t have a SOC.
They don’t have a dedicated security team.
They don’t have time to interpret 300 alerts a day.

What they have is:

  • An overstretched IT person (or MSP or the owner that is busy with 127 other things that are all urgent)
  • A growing attack surface
  • And a stack of tools that don’t talk to each other

That’s the real gap.

A Quick Look

We recently shared a glimpse of what we’re building here:

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Business, life

Good Podcasts

headset with colors in the backgroundYesterday I had an interesting conversation with a friend about ways to improve your knowledge in different topics.

I suggested to him to leverage his long commute or runs to listen to audio books and podcasts. I have been doing it over the last 15 years and it’s a great way for me to utilize time better. Suddenly the long runs become interesting and time flies. So his next question was what are the podcasts I like and why.

Here are the top ones:

  • Revisionist History is my favorite one. Gladwell does what he is excelling at… telling a story you think you knew but turn it on its head and during this process teach you a thing or two. In the last two seasons, Gladwell went back and reinterpret something from the past: an event, a person, an idea. Something overlooked. Something misunderstood. The one on Martin Luther King is fascinating.
  • Freakonomics is an award-winning podcast with a lot of listeners (which most, I suspect, like logic, economic etc’). Stephen Dubner has conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature — from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs — and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt. The last few episodes (as of March 2018) about CEOs are really good. Check it out.
  • Here’s the thing with Alec Baldwin – Alec really knows how to interview his impressive guests and listen to their ideas and stories. It’s great to follow him and learn about people that changed history, industries or ‘just’ put a smile on our faces.
  • Epicenter – I’ve been passion about the crypto world since 2012. Around early 2014 I found this one. It’s a podcast that takes you to the heart of this important technological revolution: the rise of decentralized technologies. Every week, they bring conversations with some of the brightest minds in this bourgeoning ecosystem of startups and open source projects. Good stuff if you want to learn more about decentralized technologies and the crypto world.
    Btw, Block Zero is a new podcast that deal with this topic as well. It’s still young but sounds good so far.
  • The Moth – The Moth Podcast features stories that are being recorded live on stage around the USA.
    Some of them are really good! Episodes are released every Tuesday.

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