Newsletter Archive

Looking for expert tips to optimize your business’s IT and compliance roadmaps? Browse the COEUS Newsletter Archive for deep dives into critical tech issues and actionable insights, with a focus on Southwest businesses.

The Coeus Chronicle: Volume 1, Issue 8 (August 2026)

August is about what AI agents can do, not just what they can say. Advanced models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta crossed from controlled testing into real systems during safety evaluations, McKinsey found the firms gaining most from AI are embedding it in core sales workflows, and cyber insurers are rewriting policy language for losses caused by an autonomous agent with no hacker involved. This month, we look at what those signals mean for growing businesses.

The Coeus Chronicle: Volume 1, Issue 7 (July 2026)

July is showing how quickly the rules around technology can change. The government has paused the next phase of CMMC while leaving the underlying security obligations in place, a massive phishing study provides new evidence that recurring security training changes behavior, and the cost of AI is beginning to look less like software licensing and more like a utility bill.

The Coeus Chronicle: Volume 1, Issue 6 (June 2026)

June is offering a useful reminder that technology progress creates both opportunity and new points of exposure. Attackers are targeting the security infrastructure businesses rely on, small companies are finding practical productivity gains from AI, and Microsoft continues moving identity away from passwords and other phishable credentials.

The Coeus Chronicle: Volume 1, Issue 5 (May 2026)

May is about the speed at which risk now moves. Attackers used AI to automate an intrusion that exposed 195 million records, a flaw in the Model Context Protocol left 200,000 AI servers open to hijacking, and 76% of security professionals now say they are worried about AI agents with direct access to business data. This month, we look at why machine speed attacks make reactive monitoring insufficient, and what human in the loop oversight looks like in practice.

The Coeus Chronicle: Volume 1, Issue 4 (April 2026)

April is about defending on two fronts at once. Iran-linked threat actors have escalated disruptive activity against U.S. infrastructure in the wake of Operation Epic Fury, Salesforce research points to five habits that separate growing small businesses from the rest, and state AI rules in California and Colorado are becoming concrete while federal policy is still forming. This month, we look at what those signals mean for growing businesses.

The Coeus Chronicle: Volume 1, Issue 3 (March 2026)

March is showing how quickly technology issues can move from abstract risk to business reality. Geopolitical conflict has spilled into commercial networks, growing companies continue to distinguish themselves through deliberate technology investment, and competing state and federal approaches are making AI governance more complicated.

The Coeus Chronicle: Volume 1, Issue 2 (February 2026)

February is reinforcing a familiar lesson: technology risk is rarely about one tool or one threat. Microsoft patched vulnerabilities already being used to bypass security protections, research continues to show that stronger businesses integrate technology planning into business strategy, and regulators are beginning to formalize how organizations should govern AI.

The Coeus Chronicle: Volume 1, Issue 1 (January 2026)

2026 is already providing signals worth watching. Cyber fraud is moving higher on executives' agendas, businesses are discovering what separates productive AI investments from expensive experiments, and Microsoft is warning about a security deadline buried deep inside nearly every Windows PC. Here is what those developments mean for growing businesses.

Earlier Issues

Our first two issues, published before the Coeus Chronicle name and format were settled, are available as PDF downloads.