05/19/2026
A friendly heads-up for any CEO friends running a 20 to 100 person company:
Dave Carlson published a piece this week about what actually happens to a small business during a ransomware attack, hour by hour, dollar by dollar, and the cloud-first move that prevents most of it.
Microsoft asked 2,000 small businesses about cyber risk last year. 44% of them said they probably wouldn't be attacked again. They were the ones who already had been. The other denial patterns are just as wild.
Worth 12 minutes of your morning coffee.
An hour-by-hour walkthrough of what actually happens when ransomware hits a 50-person company. The phone calls, the cost, the recovery, and what to do six months earlier.
