Topic 1: CISA Under the Microscope
CISA was called out in the Project 2025 document as a left-wing organization inside the government due to their warning about election interference. It is now subject to cuts and scrutiny. In the mass firings at DHS on February 14th, 130 employees at CISA were fired as they were “probationary” employees.
Many MSPs and MSSPs subscribe to CISA.gov alerts. It is unclear how this will be affected. Wherever you stand on politics or related topics, small business needs a good source of security alerts we can rely on.
What's your take?
Topic 2 (AI, of course): Was DeepSeek revolutionary or just the next obvious step in the evolution of AI?
From Geekwire: Satya Nadella's response was, "Jevons paradox strikes again! . . . As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can’t get enough of."
What do you think. Just another step in the evolution of AI? Or is there news here?
See: - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-ceo-says-ai-use-will-skyrocket-with-more-efficiency-amid-craze-over-deepseek/
- Wikipedia on Jevon’s Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
- ChatGPT now has 300 million users (https://backlinko.com/chatgpt-stats) - Google Search has 1 billion regular users, and now includes Gemini results at the top of every search - Microsoft CoPilot has about 30 million users (https://www.businessofapps.com/data/microsoft-copilot-statistics/) - Adobe Creative Cloud has about 30 million users and includes AI in all products (https://photutorial.com/adobe-statistics/)
Topic 3: Will Microsoft compete with you - or your SOC?
Now available: Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR
Says Microsoft: "Our expertise is now your expertise. Augment your teams across security, compliance, identity, management, and privacy with Microsoft Security Experts."
See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/services
Is this service worth considering, or should Microsoft put those resources into fixing security problems in their deployed software? The pages makes it sound like this will have a major human-led component, but that's exactly what they are NOT doing.
Will you jump on board or wait to see if this is real first? And will this help Microsoft cut payroll, or just require more hiring?
We welcome your feedback!
:-)
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