Ami DePierro

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AI-Powered Cyberattacks Just Got Smarter. Agentic AI Is Why.

Author: Ami DePierro | Co-Founder, 2 Dog Digital  Ami DePierro is Co-Founder of 2 Dog Digital and a former US Marine Intelligence Analyst who brings analytical precision to cybersecurity strategy for small and mid-sized businesses across the Raleigh/Triangle area. Digit is the voice. Ami is the author. Table of Contents Add a header to begin

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Cyber Insurance Requirements 2026: Are You Actually Covered?

Author: Ami DePierro | Co-Founder, 2 Dog Digital  Ami DePierro is Co-Founder of 2 Dog Digital and a former US Marine Intelligence Analyst who brings analytical precision to cybersecurity strategy for small and mid-sized businesses across the Raleigh/Triangle area. Digit is the voice. Ami is the author. Table of Contents Add a header to begin

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Features Your Team Is Paying for and Not Using

Author: Ami DePierro | Co-Founder, 2 Dog Digital  Ami DePierro is Co-Founder of 2 Dog Digital and a former US Marine Intelligence Analyst who brings analytical precision to cybersecurity strategy for small and mid-sized businesses across the Raleigh/Triangle area. Digit is the voice. Ami is the author. Table of Contents Your team is using Microsoft

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Infostealer Malware: The Credential Threat Most Small Businesses Have Never Heard Of

Author: Ami DePierro | Co-Founder, 2 Dog Digital  Ami DePierro is Co-Founder of 2 Dog Digital and a former US Marine Intelligence Analyst who brings analytical precision to cybersecurity strategy for small and mid-sized businesses across the Raleigh/Triangle area. Digit is the voice. Ami is the author. Table of Contents The Password Heist You Did

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Spear Phishing: When Hackers Do Their Homework on Your Business

Author: Ami DePierro | Co-Founder, 2 Dog Digital  Ami DePierro is Co-Founder of 2 Dog Digital and a former US Marine Intelligence Analyst who brings analytical precision to cybersecurity strategy for small and mid-sized businesses across the Raleigh/Triangle area. Digit is the voice. Ami is the author. Dottie got a spear phishing email last Tuesday.

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Microsoft Copilot vs. ChatGPT for Business: Stop Comparing the Wrong Things

You Are Already Asking the Wrong Question Every week, a business owner sits down and types “Copilot vs. ChatGPT” into Google. Gets 47 comparison articles. Reads three of them. Walks away thinking they now understand the situation. They do not. The question is not which AI is smarter. The question is which AI knows where

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A No-Nonsense Guide to Endpoint Protection for Small Business in 2026

One Device. That’s All It Takes. Tuesday morning. Raleigh office. Your office manager opens a vendor email, clicks a PDF, and by noon your network is encrypted. Every screen in the building shows a ransom note. The phones stopped working an hour ago and nobody knows where the customer records went. That is not a

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Business Email Compromise Is Draining Small Business Bank Accounts. Here’s What You’re Missing.

That Email From Your Vendor? Read It Again. Your accounts payable person got an email this morning. Looked exactly like the one from your roofing supplier. Same logo. Same sign-off. Same tone she has seen forty times before. It says they changed banks. Pay the new account for the invoice due Friday. She paid it.

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Windows 10 End of Life Puts Your Business at Risk. 5 Critical Steps to Take Right Now

Windows 10 end of life arrived October 14, 2025. Microsoft stopped issuing security patches that day. Anything discovered after that date stays open in Windows 10 permanently. No fix is coming. Your machines still boot up and your screens still glow. Nothing in the office looks different than it did on October 13th. That is

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AI data poisoning explained for small businesses — 2 Dog Digital Raleigh

AI Data Poisoning: What It Is, Why It’s Targeting Your Business, and How to Stop It

AI data poisoning is when someone corrupts the information an AI uses to answer questions, causing it to return wrong or harmful results without any warning. It is happening to businesses right now — including businesses right here in the Triangle — and most of them will not know it until something goes wrong. Here

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