Proactive Vigilance AI
The Vigil
Practical notes on home security, business resilience, and living thoughtfully with AI.
Business
Small teams, shops, and the work that cannot wait.
Sep 13, 2026 · Note
Who controls your business domain?
Your website address can feel like a permanent part of the business. Its registration still has an account, a renewal date, and someone responsible for keeping…
Sep 5, 2026 · Note
Keep the outage plan outside the outage
If the instructions for an email outage are stored only in email, the plan has a problem. A small business needs a short way to reach the right people when its…
Aug 28, 2026 · Note
A new bank account needs a phone call
An invoice arrives from a supplier you know. The work looks right, but the payment instructions have changed. Pause there. A familiar email thread does not prov…
Aug 20, 2026 · Note
The last day needs an access checklist
When someone leaves a small team, returning the laptop is only one part of the handover. Their account may still own a shared folder, run an integration, or rec…
Aug 11, 2026 · Note
Ransomware is a small shop problem
People still think ransomware is for hospitals and pipelines. The data says the opposite. When a small business gets breached, ransomware is in the mix far more…
Aug 7, 2026 · Note
The email that sounds like you
AI made phishing cheap and fluent. Staff now get notes that sound like the owner, the bookkeeper, or the general contractor. The grammar is fine. The urgency is…
Aug 3, 2026 · Note
Stop pasting the job into the bot
This year a well known cloud company had to explain how an employee connected a third party AI tool to the company inbox. The tool had more permission than it n…