Zero Trust Without the Buzzwords: A Practical Small-Business Checklist How to use this guide: Two audiences live here. If you’re the business owner or decision-maker, read the plain-English summaries under each pillar heading — they tell you what and why. If you’re the IT person or MSP tech doing the work, the checklists and tool callouts are yours. Both audiences should read Where to Start before diving in.
What Is Zero Trust, Actually?
Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: Incident Analysis & Response Guide Publication Date: March 31, 2026
Incident Date: March 31, 2026 (00:21–03:29 UTC)
Severity Level: Critical
Executive Summary What This Means The Incident On March 31, 2026, the Axios JavaScript library—one of the most widely used HTTP request packages in the world—was compromised through an attacker gaining unauthorized access to the npm account of a core maintainer. Two malicious versions (1.14.1 and 0.
Axios Supply Chain Attack: CrowdStrike Falcon Mitigation Guide Incident Date: March 31, 2026 (00:21–03:29 UTC)
Guide Published: April 1, 2026
Severity: Critical
Platform: CrowdStrike Falcon (All tiers)
For the full incident narrative and non-Falcon detection logic, see the companion article: Axios npm Supply Chain Attack: Incident Analysis & Response Guide
Overview On March 31, 2026, threat actors published two backdoored versions of the axios npm package (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) by compromising maintainer jasonsaayman’s npm account.
Since November 2022—when ChatGPT launched—phishing has transformed from a labor-intensive attack vector into an industrialized threat operating at unprecedented scale. The statistics are staggering: researchers report a 1,265% to 4,151% increase in phishing emails since ChatGPT’s release, with AI-generated campaigns achieving a 54% click-through rate compared to just 12% for traditional attacks. What once took a skilled attacker 16 hours to craft now takes an AI system five minutes. The phishing landscape hasn’t merely evolved; it has been fundamentally restructured by artificial intelligence.