Cybersecurity
Microsoft just raised prices across most of its business SKUs. Business Basic, Standard, E3, E5, F1, F3. All up. One plan stayed flat: Business Premium. For years, the conversation we’d have with a leader on Business Standard went something like this. “Premium costs more. Standard covers what my team uses: email, Teams, Office apps. The…
MFA was on. It had been on for years. The training had been done, the boxes had been checked. And someone still got into the business manager’s email. Leaders deserve a clearer answer than “well, no security is perfect.” MFA didn’t get weaker. The floor for attacking it dropped. Five years ago, the attacks that…
Some leaders think they’re delegating when they’re really just dispatching. The difference shows up in how the work moves. When you delegate a task, you stay in the loop. You’re approving, nudging, checking in, holding the outcome in your head. When you delegate a function, someone else owns the outcome and moves it forward whether…
For most of the last decade, cyber insurance worked like this: you filled out an application, attested to a handful of controls, paid the premium, and filed the policy in a drawer. Renewal looked a lot like the year before. The questions were broad. “Do you have MFA?” Yes. “Do you have endpoint protection?” Yes.…
Email scams are a significant risk for small businesses; ignoring them can have devastating consequences. We’re sharing a cautionary tale about a real-life email scam targeting a small business and how they ultimately avoided the fallout.
The year 2022 is bringing yet another wave of challenges as we continue our parade of working from the office, working from home, or working while travelling. Now, many of us have been doing this for quite a while, thanks to our laptops, docks, home Wi-Fi etc. We are becoming increasingly comfortable with this level…
Email is not secure. It has never been secure, and little has changed since its invention by Ray Tomlinson back in 1971.   Fast forward to 2022 and most business leaders and end users are aware of the risks of email phishing. Most also know that it is a primary way for hackers to gain access to sensitive company data, however,…
It takes just a couple of clicks to compromise your entire IT network. That’s it. Breaching your security can be so easy. Our advice to you is to shore up some easy to tackle security best practices. You do not have to be a victim. Email phishing is a tactic employed by hackers whereby they send an unsolicited email pretending to be someone…
While most medium-size construction operations are deeply reliant on technology, investment remains low compared to other industries. Over the years, we gained insight into some of the common problems with regards to IT that plague the sector, and we have some simple and easy to implement solutions to help navigate these challenges. IT is perceived as a general expense  Technology needs…