Month: April 2026

The remote access paradigm shift: VPN is on its way out. Last month, during a routine inspection at a design firm in Wangjing, their IT lead Lao Zhou vented to me: “We’ve been using that VPN for nearly eight years. With more and more staff working from home, opening a single design file takes half a minute — everyone’s patience is worn thin.” I could relate all too well. Last year we ran VPN replacement projects for three clients, all triggered by the same problem…

Starting with three clients that got hit — In Q1 this year we handled three ransomware incidents: one through RDP brute force, one through a phishing email, and one where a backdoor was planted during a vendor’s remote maintenance session. The attack paths in all three cases can almost be strung together into a textbook intrusion chain. During the post-incident reviews, every client asked the same question: “Our firewall was on the whole time — how did they get in?” The answer is usually that the attacker never came through the front door; they…

Entering 2026, digital transformation is no longer a question of whether companies “should do it,” but a question of survival: how to do it, and how fast. From government work reports to industry white papers, “new quality productive forces” and “digital-intelligence integration” have become high-frequency keywords. Yet for the small and medium-sized enterprises that account for half of China’s total economic output, the biggest obstacle to digital transformation is not technology itself, but the cost of IT infrastructure investment and

The Real Impact of China’s Data Security Law on IT Procurement at SMEs In September 2021, China’s Data Security Law officially took effect. Three years on, many SME owners in Beijing have found themselves facing an awkward reality: compliance checklists keep getting longer, while procurement decisions have only become harder. Choosing an IT vendor used to come down to price and after-sales support; today you also have to weigh whether their data security capabilities are up to standard. This is not manufactured anxiety — it is real regulatory pressure working its way downstream. I…