Your firewall vendor just announced another critical vulnerability. Last week brought two more. Last month? Six. When does "routine security update" become a vendor reliability crisis that threatens your business? For UK SMBs running Fortinet or SonicWall, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue tells an uncomfortable story: your perimeter security is under active, documented attack. This isn't vendor marketing or compliance theatre. This is your board-level "do we stay or do we leave
After this week's podcast revelation about the marketing agency losing client files through an unsecured printer, my inbox has been full of variations on the same question: how do intelligent business owners with otherwise solid security miss something this obvious? The answer isn't comfortable, but it's important: IoT security failures aren't about lack of intelligence. They're about systematic psychological blind spots that affect everyone from small business owners to government departments.
Here's a question for your weekend: Did anyone ask if UK small businesses wanted to fund Microsoft's nuclear reactor restart? Because that's what's happening. While Microsoft spends $1.6 billion restarting Three Mile Island, Google partners with Kairos Power for small modular reactors, and Amazon secures nuclear capacity across multiple projects, your cloud bills are climbing to pay for it. Nobody took a vote. Nobody asked permission. Tech giants made a collective decision that AI is worth unlim
