When every user is a local administrator, ransomware has an easy job. How to find who really needs elevated rights and finish the switch in six weeks.
Read more: Should Employees Have Local Admin Rights? A Plan to Remove Them
A stolen laptop costs less than the data inside it. How to check whether each disk is encrypted, where the recovery key lives, and the KVKK angle.
Read more: Company Laptop Stolen: Was BitLocker On? How to Check Every Device
The employee has left, but their mailbox, VPN, cloud panels and shared passwords are still live. The order we use to cut access without losing data.
Read more: Employee Offboarding: Which IT Accounts to Close, and in What Order
When a firewall licence lapses the box still passes traffic, but IPS, web filtering and sandboxing quietly stop. What breaks and what renewal costs.
Read more: Firewall Subscription Expired? What Stops Working and What to Do
If passwords live in a spreadsheet, one leak opens every account behind it. What to look for in a business password manager, and how the main ones compare.
Read more: Business Password Managers: A Selection Guide for Growing SMEs
Email security is more than SPF, DKIM and DMARC. A field guide to all eight DNS records: the 10-lookup limit, key rotation, MTA-STS, DNSSEC, DANE and BIMI.
Read more: Complete Email Security DNS Records: From SPF to BIMI Explained
Sophos' 2026 report found attackers target backups in 96% of ransomware cases and succeed 76% of the time. A practical restore-testing plan for SMEs.
Read more: You Have a Backup, But Can You Actually Restore It?
Cybersecurity Law No. 7545 now reaches almost any company running an information system. What the reporting duty, audits and fines mean for SMEs.
Read more: Turkey's Cybersecurity Law No. 7545: What SMEs Must Know
A VPN opens the whole network to anyone who connects; ZTNA grants access to one application. When each makes sense for an SME, and how to migrate.
Read more: VPN or ZTNA? A Remote Access Security Guide for SMEs
SIEM is software, MDR is a managed service. Setup time, staffing, cost and response speed compared for SMEs, and when running both together makes sense.
Read more: SIEM or MDR? Choosing the Right Security Monitoring Model for SMEs
Acronis backs up and protects endpoints with a single agent; Veeam is built for deep backup of virtual, physical and cloud workloads. Which fits which scale.
Read more: Acronis or Veeam? A Backup Software Guide for Organizations
Sophos XGS, FortiGate and Palo Alto are built around different priorities: simple management, throughput per dollar, deep AI analysis. Which fits where.
Read more: Firewall Selection: Sophos XGS vs FortiGate vs Palo Alto
The three DNS records that stop anyone sending mail as your domain, in plain language. Why Google, Yahoo and Outlook require them, and how to reach reject.
Read more: SPF, DKIM and DMARC: A Guide to Stopping Email Spoofing
If you offer internet to guests in a hotel, café or office lobby in Türkiye, Law 5651 may apply. Logs, permits, retention and the data-protection tension.
Read more: Law 5651 and Guest Wi-Fi: Must Your Business Keep Logs?
An automated scan report is not a penetration test. What a real test involves, how it differs from a scan, and what Türkiye's KVKK actually expects.
Read more: Penetration Testing for SMEs: Scan vs Real Test, and KVKK
Having backups doesn't mean you can bring the business back online. How to set RTO and RPO per system and build a disaster recovery plan that works.
Read more: How to Build a Disaster Recovery Plan: RTO/RPO Guide for SMEs
A fake email from your supplier saying 'our bank account changed' is the costliest attack antivirus never catches. How to recognise and stop BEC fraud.
Read more: Business Email Compromise (BEC): An SME Guide to Fake Payment Fraud
Classic antivirus looks for signatures, yet most recent attacks leave no file behind. A practical guide to antivirus, EDR and MDR, and which one you need.
Read more: Antivirus vs EDR vs MDR: Which Protection Does Your SME Need?
When the ransom note appears, two clocks start: the attacker's pressure and your 72-hour notification window. The first 72 hours, step by step.
Read more: The First 72 Hours of a Ransomware Attack: An SME Response Plan
Ransomware deletes your backups first. Immutable backups keep copies unchangeable with WORM and S3 Object Lock. Here is the 3-2-1-1-0 rule in practice.
Read more: Immutable Backup: The 3-2-1-1-0 Rule Against Ransomware
What DLP and data classification does Business Premium include, and what does the Purview Suite add-on add? The compliance angle, with real numbers.
Read more: Is Microsoft Purview Worth It on Business Premium?
The Microsoft Defender family is easy to confuse. The real differences between Defender for Endpoint Plan 1, Plan 2, Defender for Business and the Suite.
Read more: Defender Endpoint P1, P2, Business and Suite Compared
A client's accounting PC was locked by ransomware. The way in was not a zero-day; it was a patch that had waited for months. How to close that gap for good.
Read more: Patch Management for SMBs: The 2026 Guide
Most endpoint tools answer 'is this file malicious?' with a probability. Xcitium answers with a rule: anything unknown runs in a container until proven safe.
Read more: Xcitium: Holistic Defence Against Modern Cyber Threats
Managed Detection and Response is the realistic path to 24/7 monitoring for organisations that cannot sustain an internal SOC. What Sophos MDR delivers.
Read more: Sophos MDR + Xen Bilişim: 24/7 Comprehensive Protection
Microsoft Defender is no longer just the antivirus in Windows. The full portfolio — Endpoint P1/P2, Office 365, Identity, Cloud Apps and XDR — explained.
Read more: Enterprise Security with Microsoft Defender: A Guide
Where a single ransomware incident can be existential, best-effort detection is not enough. How Xcitium's Default-Deny architecture changes the odds.
Read more: Top-Tier Data Protection for Enterprises with Xcitium
Most SMB owners only learn how secure their IT is during an incident. The honest self-audit you can run in 30 minutes to surface the gaps first.
Read more: How Secure Is Your IT Infrastructure? A Practitioner's Self-Audit
Sophos covers endpoint, firewall, email, cloud and MDR as one integrated platform. A practitioner's tour of the product line and how licensing works.
Read more: Sophos Security: A Comprehensive Product and Licensing Guide
The network perimeter still matters, but the modern one is application-aware, identity-aware and intelligence-driven. Where Sophos XGS firewalls fit in.
Read more: Sophos Firewall: Next-Generation Data Security at the Perimeter