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The Caribbean Cyber Hygiene Scorecard: Twenty-Five Items, Five Dimensions, One Quarterly Review

May 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

This is the closing article of Pillar 2 of the Caribbean Digital Foundations Series. Articles 2.1 through 2.5 built five operational disciplines: posture, access, data, continuity, and the third-party perimeter. This article produces the instrument that converts those five disciplines into a single composite measure the Caribbean SMB can actually track. The Caribbean Cyber Hygiene...

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The Perimeter Is Not Where You Think It Is: Third Parties, External Lingerers, and What the Caribbean SMB Inherits from Its Suppliers

May 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pillar 2 has so far treated the firm as a closed system: its own posture, its own access, its own data, its own recovery. That treatment is editorially useful but operationally incomplete. In practice, the Caribbean SMB’s data sits on three or four cloud platforms it does not control, is processed by a dozen suppliers...

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Backup is Not Recovery: What Continuity Actually Costs the Caribbean SMB — and Why Most Firms Pay for the Wrong Thing

May 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Almost every Caribbean SMB will tell you it has backups. Very few have ever successfully restored one. This article is about the gap between those two states — which is where most Caribbean SMB exposure actually lives — and about the operational disciplines that close it. It is the fourth article of Pillar 2 of...

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Data Protection in Operational Practice: What the Data Protection Act 2020 Actually Requires

May 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Jamaican Data Protection Act 2020 has been in force since the end of its transition period. Every Caribbean firm reading this article is either subject to it directly, subject to a comparable regional act, or doing business with parties that are. This article does not summarise the legislation — there are competent legal summaries...

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Identity and Access Management for the Caribbean SMB

May 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Article 2.1 of this series named four cybersecurity postures and asked every Caribbean board to choose one consciously. This article begins the substantive work of moving from any of the lesser postures toward Posture D — and starts where every meaningful improvement starts: with the question of who has access to what, how that gets...

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The Caribbean Cybersecurity Posture: Beyond Antivirus

May 18, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pillar 1 of this series asked Caribbean boards to put their digital foundations in order. Pillar 2 begins from the assumption that they have, and asks the question that immediately follows: what is the firm actually defending those foundations against, and from what posture? “We have antivirus and the staff don’t open suspicious emails” is...

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From Personal Inbox to Professional Brand: A Migration Playbook for Caribbean Family Businesses

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first five articles in this series were largely diagnostic and prescriptive. This article — the final piece in the Foundations pillar — is neither. It is a migration playbook for the Caribbean family business that has been operating successfully for ten, twenty, or thirty years on a tangle of personal email, founder-controlled accounts, and...

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Email Authentication for the Caribbean Board: SPF, DKIM and DMARC Explained Without the Jargon

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Article 1.2 of this series asked Caribbean boards whether they were running their business on personal email. This article is the technical follow-up that boards have largely been spared until now: three small entries in the firm’s domain settings — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC — that quietly decide whether the firm’s mailboxes can be impersonated....

The First 90 Minutes Online: A Caribbean Start-Up Digital Identity Checklist

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first three articles in this series have asked Caribbean boards uncomfortable questions about digital infrastructure that has already been set up — usually badly. This article is for the entrepreneur, the family-business successor, or the partner of a newly-formed firm who has the rare opportunity to do it correctly from the first day. It...

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What’s in a .com? Choosing Between Global TLDs and Caribbean Country-Code Domains

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A domain name is not, as is often supposed, a neutral string of characters. It is a positioning statement. The choice between a .com, a .jm, a .tt, a .bb and the new generic extensions tells the market who the firm believes itself to be, and which market it believes it is competing in. For...

The Caribbean Cyber Hygiene Scorecard: Twenty-Five Items, Five Dimensions, One Quarterly Review

Backup is Not Recovery: What Continuity Actually Costs the Caribbean SMB — and Why Most Firms Pay for the Wrong Thing

Data Protection in Operational Practice: What the Data Protection Act 2020 Actually Requires

Identity and Access Management for the Caribbean SMB

The Caribbean Cybersecurity Posture: Beyond Antivirus

From Personal Inbox to Professional Brand: A Migration Playbook for Caribbean Family Businesses

Email Authentication for the Caribbean Board: SPF, DKIM and DMARC Explained Without the Jargon

The First 90 Minutes Online: A Caribbean Start-Up Digital Identity Checklist

What’s in a .com? Choosing Between Global TLDs and Caribbean Country-Code Domains

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