This Community Voices column is written by Dawn Winterhalter Parks, director of BizAccessHub at NKU’s Haile College of Business and an AI strategist.
"You don’t rise to the level of your cybersecurity hope. You fall to the level of your plan,” said Gaby Batshoun, president of Global Business Solutions in Newport.
Back in July 2025, the news was unsettling: Cybercriminals out of China exploited weaknesses in Microsoft SharePoint servers, slipping into U.S. government systems—including the nuclear weapons agency—and hundreds of businesses across the globe.
Sound like a high-level international drama? Sure. But here’s the thing most folks missed: Many of the businesses hit weren't huge corporations with massive IT teams. Some were small-town accounting offices. Family-run manufacturers. Marketing agencies. The kind of businesses that line the streets of Florence, Covington and Newport, Kentucky.
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