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Small businesses can reduce phishing and ransomware risk by combining ongoing employee security awareness training with layered technical and procedural safeguards. Employees should learn how to identify suspicious requests, slow down and verify high-risk transactions through a separate channel, and immediately report possible compromises.

While cybersecurity often gets all the attention, it's easy to overlook the fact that security is part of a larger solution set—business continuity—that needs to be addressed so that a business interruption doesn't stretch on for days, or even weeks.

Business resilience goes beyond continuity planning. Learn how strategy, security, recovery, lifecycle planning, and leadership help SMBs become more resilient and the importance of taking a long-term approach.

Learn why recovery testing is critical to business continuity and how regular testing helps uncover gaps, reduce downtime and strengthen business resilience.

Think your backups are enough? Learn why backups are only one piece of business continuity and how to identify the gaps that could put your business at risk.

Learn how an effective business continuity plan combines data backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, documented procedures, employee roles, and regular testing to minimize downtime and keep critical business functions running.

Modern compliance frameworks don't want your organization to simply protect data. They want you to know exactly what to do when that protection fails to minimize the damage. The answer to that challenge? A proper incident response plan.

While cloud platforms offer exceptional availability and security, businesses remain responsible for protecting their own data, identities, and configurations.

To bring clarity to this rapidly evolving space, Exigent Technologies invited James Venezia, cyber insurance and risk management expert, to sit down and discuss the topic in an eight-part video series designed for businesses concerned about cybersecurity and building business resiliency.

Cyber insurance underwriting requirements in 2026 demand real proof of cybersecurity controls, including documentation, backup testing, and employee security training.