Is your business data at risk? Don’t take chances with old tech! When you replace old computers or external drives, do you delete the data and then just get rid of them? Without knowing it, you could be putting your sensitive data at risk. A new study by a data recovery specialist shows that millions …
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MFA Fatigue
While you were sleeping… MFA Fatigue No, it’s not the 1995 romcom about miscommunications and star-crossed lovers. It’s the reality that can happen while you are sleeping or simply just sleepy. Have you ever felt frustrated by the flood of notifications from your multi-factor authentication (MFA) app? Especially when you’re just about to fall asleep? …
Curtains for Windows 10
The final curtain call for Windows 10: What you need to know Microsoft has announced that the current version of Windows 10, version 22H2, released in 2022, will be its final release. End of support date is slated to be October 14, 2025. Until then, all editions of Windows 10 will remain in support with …
Greener in the Cloud
Could your business go green by switching over to the cloud? Cloud computing has quickly become a popular option for businesses that want to streamline their operations, reduce costs, and become more flexible. Not only that, cloud computing allows for the real possibility of reducing the carbon footprint left by organizations and agencies. The reason …
Look Out for Juice Jacking!
Don’t charge in public charging stations! It’s convenient. You’re on the go. You’re running low on charge and, lo and behold, there is a charging station, right there, in the middle of the airport, hotel, café, mall, or wherever you happen to be working on the go. So, what do you do? An ordinary person …
Three Essential Tools for Security
Three Essential Tools for Cybersecurity for Every Business Keeping the Most Valuable Asset Secure Data is the most valuable asset of any business. Safeguarding and securing it should be one of your main priorities. If you don’t have much or any security in place for safeguarding your data, you should be implementing a minimum of …
MFA EZ-R with Microsoft 365
Why the MFA? Have you ever found Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to be a bit…cumbersome? Complicated? Interruptive? In part, that’s what MFA is supposed to be! It’s supposed to put a pause on accessing accounts and data. And while it might seem like a drag to put up with or an obstacle to overcome, MFA is …
A Growing Security Threat: Bot Malware
Bot malware is a growing cybersecurity threat If in talking about bots you begin to think of the amazing and wonderful AI chatbots that have been all over the news lately, we’d forgive you. It’s only a matter of what is most in the forefront of the news that is most in the forefront of …
Practical Steps to Take when Hardware or Software Expire
The bad news: End of Life (EOL) or End of Service (EOS) of software or hardware means that it is no longer supported by the manufacturer. Why it’s bad news: The EOL or EOS of your software or hardware can result in vulnerabilities, since the unsupported technologies will have no routine internal security measures. The …
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Busting Technology End-of-Service Myths
Success is in the Details* Everyone is trying to make it and get ahead, including you, me, the person next to you, the person across the street, the man upstairs and downstairs–and even the cybercriminal across the net. In order to achieve optimal success in your endeavors to be efficient, productive, and to thrive, you …