Agent Security Posture as an M&A Risk Factor
Agent Security Posture as an M&A Risk Factor April 22, 2026 Your acquisition process is six months away. Your investment bankers are preparing the materials. Your management team is building the presentation. Everyone is focused on the financial story — revenue growth, margin expansion, the strategic rationale. Meanwhile, the buyer’s technology due diligence team is […]
Cloud Misconfigurations and Agents: Why Your Infrastructure Is Ready for Breach, Not Automation
Cloud Misconfigurations and Agents: Why Your Infrastructure Is Ready for Breach, Not Automation April 17, 2026 Your cloud infrastructure is misconfigured. This is not speculation — it is the baseline reality for the overwhelming majority of organizations that have migrated workloads to Azure, AWS, or GCP over the past decade. Misconfigurations are not failures of […]
Zero Trust Isn’t Optional Anymore: Agent Readiness Requires Permission Remediation First
Zero Trust Isn’t Optional Anymore: Agent Readiness Requires Permission Remediation First April 15, 2026 You can build the most carefully configured agent in the world. You can scope its instructions precisely, test its responses thoroughly, and document its design with the rigor of a regulated system. And then you deploy it into your infrastructure — […]
Why DLP Alone Won’t Protect Your Agents: The Claude and Copilot Data Leakage Gap
Why DLP Alone Won’t Protect Your Agents: The Claude and Copilot Data Leakage Gap April 13, 2026 Your DLP tool is working perfectly. It blocks employees from uploading files to personal cloud accounts. It flags emails with credit card numbers. It alerts when someone tries to print a document marked confidential. It is doing exactly […]
Hidden AI and the Shadow Agent Problem: What Law Firms Need to Know
Hidden AI and the Shadow Agent Problem: What Law Firms Need to Know April 8, 2026 A managing partner at a 200-attorney firm recently discovered that their entire M&A deal repository — confidential client agreements, due diligence files, pricing strategies — had been accessible to Claude and Microsoft Copilot for months. They never activated anything. […]
M365 Copilot Premium: Access Control and Data Protection for Law Firms
M365 Copilot Premium: Access Control and Data Protection for Law Firms The paid tier connects to everything your firm has ever stored. That is its power — and its governance challenge. Here is the complete control framework before you deploy a single licensed seat. April 1, 2026 The first two parts of this series covered […]
Copilot Chat Basic: A Law Firm Admin Guide
Copilot Chat Basic: A Law Firm Admin Guide The free tier is already sitting at your associates’ desks. This is the technical playbook for locking it down the right way before the April 15 tier split arrives. March 27, 2026 If you read our overview of Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing changes for law firms, you already […]
Microsoft 365 Copilot Licensing for Law Firms: The April 2026 Pivot
Microsoft 365 Copilot Licensing for Law Firms: The April 2026 Pivot March 25, 2026 Last week Microsoft drew a hard line across its AI stack. Here is what changes on April 15, what it costs, and how to manage the transition before your associates notice. If you manage technology at a law firm and you have […]
Internal Risk Assessment: 3 Simple Steps to a Moment of Clarity in Just 60 Minutes
Internal Risk Assessment: 3 Simple Steps to a Moment of Clarity in Just 60 Minutes March 19, 2026 As an IT leader, you already have enough on your plate. You know your permissions are not perfect, but you also know what a regular audit looks like. It usually means weeks of clicking through folders, complicated […]
Information Security Audit: 3 Ways to Eliminate “Ghost Data” in Legal and Energy Firms
Information Security Audit: 3 Ways to Eliminate “Ghost Data” in Legal and Energy Firms March 18, 2026 If you have spent any time managing IT in a high-pressure environment like a Houston law firm or an energy company, you know the drill. People move on, projects wrap up, and growth happens fast. What gets left […]