Email Basics: Be Secure

Email was not designed with security as a requirement. In fact, all “security” that involves email was bolted on after the fact. Here are four areas that were bolted on that should be part of your secure email basics. Utilize MFA, for real We have beat on this drum for over five years now, and […]

Email Basics: Common Sense

Imagine driving without lines on the road, speed limits, or the need to have a license. Now you know what using email for business communication is like…complete and utter chaos. Sure, it’s better than riding a horse to work or sending a telegram, but the value of using email as a communication tool is decreasing […]

M365 Security Basics

The question is not whether or not you are using Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), but rather, are you using it securely? Microsoft has steadily improved the default security settings, but it still requires some experience to get it 100% there. The amount of attacks on the M365 is astounding, specifically with phishing attempts to […]

It is time to recalibrate your technology plan

No matter how good your technology plan was going into 2020, it is time to recalibrate it. The business environment has permanently changed and will not be going back to “how it was” with or without COVID-19. Thousands of workers shifted to #wfh for the first time, and guess what? They were MORE productive than […]

Multi-Factor Authentication

Another day, another technology acronym to learn. Today, we are talking about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). If you have ever used an ATM card, you have used MFA. The first “factor” is that you needed the card to put in the machine, the second, your PIN code. Finance has long enforced these types of MFA mechanisms […]