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November 2026 Monthly Update

November 5, 2026

Year-end is the easiest season to run a scam on a small business. Regular staff are out, the people covering for them don't know the usual routines, and everyone is rushing to close the year. Nobody has to break into anything. One busy person has to say yes.

Why scammers love December

Three scams to brief your team on

The gift card errand. A text or email from "the boss" asks someone to buy gift cards and send back the numbers. Say it out loud to your team: nobody at this company will ever ask for gift cards by message.

The deal that isn't a store. Lookalike retail sites, pushed through social media ads and QR codes, take the card number and sometimes a password at checkout. If that's the company card, or the password your employee also uses for Microsoft 365, it's now your problem. Buy from the retailer's own site, typed in by hand.

The package that needs your login. "Address problem," "customs fee," "confirm to release your package." The link leads to a login page that keeps whatever gets typed in. Track packages from the carrier's app, and treat any delivery text with a link as junk.

For our managed ITTaaS® customers, mail filtering, lookalike-domain blocking, MFA, and phishing training are already part of your service.

These three show up every holiday season. Two minutes at your next staff meeting covers all of them.

From our security team: Business Communications Compromise

The scams above hit your people. The ones that hit your bank account arrive through the channels you trust most: email, Teams, Slack, even video calls. Our vCISO, Rob Ashcraft wrote up a great article to help you identify these new threats: Business Communications Compromise, why a vendor's "updated banking instructions" or an executive's urgent wire request now shows up in chat instead of email, and the two controls that stop it.

Industry Award

MSP 501 - 2026 Vanguard Award Winner

In addition to being included in the MSP 501 for the 4th consecutive year, we were honored to be selected for the Vanguard Award winner.

Informa gives the award to "a company that is at the forefront of technology and service innovation — AI, cybersecurity, cloud, etc. — in the managed services and technology channel…”

"We are honored to be recognized. Our team has done tremendous work over the last year to modernize and automate our service delivery. I couldn’t be prouder of their hard work and dedication to a superior customer experience. We are excited about the future!" said Preston West, CEO of KeyStone Solutions.

Product spotlight

Secure AI Platform

Your people are already using AI. Secure AI puts you back in charge of it. It's a governed AI workspace, powered by Hatz and run by KeyStone, that gives your business one approved place for AI: it works on your own data, applies your policy, and records who used it and for what. One monthly number sized to your organization, not per seat, with support hours built in.

Not sure you need the full workspace yet? The AI Readiness Self-Assessment on the same page scores you in about five minutes.

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