Do you still feel the chill from last July when a bad Microsoft update knocked airports, banks, and seven million PCs offline in one morning. If that can happen to them, what about our own business operations? This issue lines up the must‑know headline, a bite‑sized video masterclass, candid community lessons, and a security toolkit you can deploy before lunch. Join me for a quick read that could save a very long day.

In This Flow

• Can your business be back online ASAP if all goes left?

• Learn from a small business security professional what you can do NOW to prevent security pitfalls.

• Funny picture but painful experience WARNING: GRAPHIC

• 6 Apps to get you thinking about how to start protecting yours and your clients’ data.

• AWS now has it’s own no-code AI builder!

//HEADLINE

Is Your SaaS Stack One Ransomware Hit Away from Ruin?

This newsletter is a tour guide of software, ai, and automations that can propel your business forward. Yet, you should always be wary of the security of your data and operations.

LevelBlue’s new 2025 Futures Report polled 1,500 C‑suite and senior executives and found only seven percent are confident they could bounce back quickly if ransomware or a bad update shut them down. The standouts have one discipline in common: they tie security KPIs and budget to every SaaS rollout, low‑code build, and AI pilot right from the kickoff.

That habit lets them reboot in hours and keep moving while competitors hunt for backups. After last year’s Change Healthcare’s blockbuster breach and Microsoft’s July software‑update outage, boards everywhere are asking whether each shiny new automation actually strengthens the company’s immune system. Put security on your next project agenda before someone else’s glitch headlines tomorrow’s news.

//VIDEOSPOTLIGHT

Your customers trust you to protect their information

Cyber‑pro Todd Mitchell just squeezed a mini masterclass into twenty minutes, showing how any founder can harden their stack without spending a dime.

His four “do it now” moves are:

1. Switch on multi‑factor sign‑ins

2. Ditch shared logins for long passphrases with a sprinkle of symbols

3. Let your devices auto‑patch instead of “remind me later”

4. Treat every sketchy link like a banana peel on the office floor.

He backs it up with real gotchas, from routers still set to “admin / password” to Gmail accounts fetching eighty bucks on the dark web—and a simple rule when pop‑ups scream: hit Ctrl + Alt + Del and walk away. Finish with ic3.gov in your bookmarks; that is the FBI’s front door if trouble hits.

//COMMUNITY

The problem with free antivirus software is that it can be the whole problem itself.

Was there a time you faced computer turmoil after installing such a “free” virus protector?

//APPS

Tools to Keep Your Business Secure

👉 Barracuda - protect against business email compromise, account takeover, spear phishing, and other cyber fraud.

👉 Avanan - multi-layer security enables full-suite protection for cloud collaboration solutions such as Office 365™, G-Suite™, and Slack™.

👉 NordPass - protect and manage your company’s digital access with a password manager for business.

👉 JumpCloud - securely manage identities, devices, and access across your organization.

👉 OpenVPN - give your teams the freedom to work securely anywhere with private access, secure web access, and SaaS protection.

👉 Ridge Security - runs automated penetration tests that mimic real attackers, probing your websites and APIs, validating true weak spots, and shutting off ransomware routes before criminals strike.

//INSIGHTS//UPDATES

• Atlassian rockets after an AI‑powered quarter – shares jumped more than eighteen percent on a revenue beat fueled by new AI features baked into Jira and Confluence.

• Make pulls the plug on X – soaring API fees pushed the platform to retire its Twitter integration on 3 April, so schedule those tweets elsewhere before flows fail on 30 May.

• AWS launches App Studio – describe an app in plain language and Amazon’s new low‑code builder churns out the UI, data model, and logic, all powered by its own generative AI.

//HACKS//TEMPLATES//TUTORIALS

• Protect yourself from fraud funding by watching for fake contact info and other smart ways.

• Use Microsoft 365 Entra API to get all users and automate creating profiles and other apps in Make. Great as a part of your staff onboarding process. Once you follow those instructions, use the HTTP module in make to connect.
  

• Pour your SEO keyword pile into this n8n flow and it spits out a ready‑made blog playbook. AI grabs the quick wins, groups related ideas, writes punchy titles, and parks it all in Airtable so your team can start drafting instead of sorting.

//PROBLEMSOLVED

We love it when a community comes together

See this weeks finds of solved questions in the Make and Airtable communities and tweak to fit your needs.

❓Got a huge list from ChatGPT that you need to create Airtable records for each line? Check this solution on how to use Make to do it.

❓This Make & Notion automation solution shows how to get only check boxed information from Notion into other platforms you might need.