Halcyon
08/Aug/2025
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Cyber ResilienceCybersecurity ROI

Shadow IT in Small Businesses — A Silent Breach Vector That’s Growing

As small businesses rapidly adopt cloud services and digital tools to stay competitive, they’re also unknowingly opening the door to a dangerous and growing threat: Shadow IT. Shadow IT refers to the use of software, devices, and services without approval or oversight from your IT or security team. It’s an invisible risk — and for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) without full-time cybersecurity resources, it’s becoming a leading cause of data breaches, compliance violations, and operational disruption.

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Halcyon
08/Aug/2025
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Cyber ResilienceRisk Management

Cyber Resilience as a Service: Beyond Protection, Toward Business Continuity

In today’s evolving cyber threat landscape, prevention alone isn’t enough. Organizations—especially SMBs and government entities—must now embrace a proactive and layered approach to cyber resilience. This goes beyond traditional defense. It’s about ensuring continuity in the face of disruption. Enter Cyber Resilience as a Service (CRaaS): a convergence of modern MSSP capabilities—XDR, NDR, SOAR, and GRC—engineered not just to detect and respond, but to recover and thrive.

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Halcyon
08/Aug/2025
Perimeter
Cyber ResilienceSmall Business Security

Modern Security Architecture: Moving Beyond Traditional Perimeter Security

Perimeter firewalls are yesterday’s defense. Learn how modern MSSPs leverage Zero Trust, Microsegmentation, and Threat-Informed Defense to deliver resilient, scalable protection. In an era where threats don’t respect perimeters and ransomware kits are sold like SaaS, relying solely on traditional network defenses is like guarding your secrets with a picket fence.

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