The SMB Cybersecurity Intelligence Briefing Archive

The SMB Cybersecurity Intelligence Briefing is a free daily edition for small and mid-sized businesses: the exploited vulnerability or fraud pattern that matters today, the exact action to take, and how to verify it. Every recommendation names where to do it and how to confirm it worked. Anything the sources do not report is marked not reported. No fear, no jargon, no vendor marketing.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the SMB Cybersecurity Intelligence Briefing?

It is a free daily briefing for small and mid-sized businesses (roughly 10 to 500 employees) and the people who support them: IT managers, managed service providers, owners and compliance leads. Each edition names the threat that matters most that day, the action to take, and how to check that it worked.

How often is the briefing published?

Every morning. On days when no newly exploited vulnerability is reported, the edition says so plainly and becomes a Hardening and Verification Edition built around that weekday's theme: backup, identity, email and payments, endpoints and patching, or vendors.

Is the briefing free?

Yes. Every edition is published on this site the morning it is written, with no account and no paywall. An email edition is planned but is not sending yet.

Where does the information come from?

From government and security-research sources: the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, the NIST National Vulnerability Database, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and vendor advisories. Every CVE, score, deadline and statistic carries its source and date, and anything those sources do not report is written as not reported.

Does it cover Canadian businesses?

Yes. Incident reporting points to both the FBI IC3 in the United States and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security in Canada, and privacy rules such as PIPEDA are covered when a deadline makes them actionable.