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  • Cybersecurity Best Practices for 2026: What Small IT Teams Should Prioritize

    Cybersecurity Best Practices for 2026: What Small IT Teams Should Prioritize

    Most small IT teams don’t need another 50-item cybersecurity checklist. They need to know what to do first. When people discuss cybersecurity best practices, identity security, vulnerability management, endpoint protection, backups, SIEM, zero trust, monitoring, incident response, governance, and third-party risk often appear together as if they were equally urgent. They aren’t. If I inherited…

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  • GoDaddy SSL Certificate Cost: Is It Worth Paying For?

    GoDaddy SSL Certificate Cost: Is It Worth Paying For?

    If you’re looking at the cost of a GoDaddy SSL certificate, there’s a more important question to answer first: do you actually need to pay for an SSL certificate? For most standard websites, my answer is no. If your hosting provider already includes an automatically renewed certificate from Let’s Encrypt or another trusted certificate authority,…

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  • The Complete Guide to Modern IT Infrastructure

    The Complete Guide to Modern IT Infrastructure

    What 20+ years of real-world infrastructure experience taught me about architecture, security, cloud, governance, resilience, and making technology work for the business. What 20+ Years in IT Infrastructure Taught Me At some point in an IT career, infrastructure stops being about servers, firewalls, storage, or cloud platforms. It becomes about decisions. A technology decision can…

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