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Supply Chain Attacks: On the Rise

Apr 7, 2023

The 3CX incident marked another highly successful supply chain-based attack, believed to be attributable to DPRK (North Korea) state sponsored actors. I won't b...

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Dear SaaS Companies: You're Holding Us Up!

Mar 2, 2023

CIS 6.7, CSF PR.AC-1, and just about every other security framework call for centralized account management. SSO is the best way to deliver centralized account ...

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White House Cyber Strategy - A Shift in Responsibility

Mar 2, 2023

The White House has unveiled the Biden-Harris Administration National Cybersecurity Strategy, and it has some really important implications for the tech channel...

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I Moved to 1Password

Mar 1, 2023

\[box\] Everyone is responsible for their own security. Me liking a product is not an endorsement of how secure it will be for you. Security is never 100%\[/box...

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How I Protect My Kids Online

Feb 25, 2023

This is a particularly hot topic, and one I'm asked about relatively often. I figured I would cover it here... how do I go about protecting my kids when they're...

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Picking a Security Tool in Today's World

Feb 20, 2023

Today's cybersecurity market is overcrowded, and full of marketing teams who write claims that fall flat on their faces simply in the way they're written. In th...

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Microsoft: The $20B Security Business

Feb 7, 2023

In late January, Microsoft shared that their Microsoft Security has grown to over $20 Billion (USD) in revenue per year. That's a massive milestone and puts the...

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No - We aren't trying to make a quick buck.

Dec 18, 2022

Has your MSP reached out to tell you that your hardware or software is out of date and you need to buy new stuff? I ran an MSP for five years, and I had to do i...

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What if my cloud provider dies?

Dec 4, 2022

This weekend has been marred by an ongoing outage at major cloud provider Rackspace that is impacting their entire Hosted Exchange offering. After a full day of...

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Basic Auth is Going Way - What about printers?

Nov 27, 2022

Man, I hate printers. But nonetheless, we've got to deal with them. With Basic Authentication finally going away (I hope), you may be running into problems with...

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What is a certificate anyways?

Nov 23, 2022

Following up on my last post about certificate-based authentication, I thought I would break down for the masses what a certificate is exactly. This isn't reall...

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When should I use certificate authentication?

Nov 14, 2022

With Microsoft announcing Certificate Based Auth general availability, it's a fair question. Certificate Authentication is nothing new, native support for CBA i...