Tag: Sys Admin

Is it fear of upsetting the status quo or “rocking the boat”? Too often, I see critical issues being overlooked during client onboarding, such as: • 𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 lingering in M365, left active long after they’ve left the company—sometimes account which existed well before the IT firm took over.• 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 remaining in use, posing security risks and inefficiencies.• 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 purchased without IT’s knowledge, never making it into the Mobile Device Management (MDM) system.• 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀, where some users have MFA enforced while others do not, leaving gaps in protection.• 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 from the previous IT… Continue reading

October is Cyber Security Awareness MonthWe have touched on Updates and Passwords already, and last week we rambled about securing devices. If you missed it, find the previous posts. This week I want you to focus on what information you keep online. To be aware about what information is out there, what you share, and how you share it. So, I made a bit of a mistake.Now at the time it didn’t feel like a mistake. I thought what I did would be really useful, I thought it would help me connect to friends and relatives. I thought it would… Continue reading

October is Cyber Security Awareness MonthWe have already touched on Updates and Passwords. If you missed it, find the previous posts.This week I want you to Secure Your Devices Most obvious here is to ensure you lock your device with a passphrase, password, PIN or passcode. Stay away from patterns, dates/years, PINs which translate directly to guessable words or names etc. These are easily guessable and don’t offer any real security. Make sure your device is set to automatically lock after a short amount of inactivity and if you are walking away from your device, remember to lock it before… Continue reading

October is Cybersecurity Awareness MonthHere is another tip to help you strengthen your personal Cyber security at homeIts Patch Tuwensday, did you get your automatic updates sorted? If you don’t know what I’m on about, go find last weeks tip. This week, lets focus on Passwords. Passwords are old, really old, and ever since they have been in use there have been people trying to crack them.Trying to remember a bunch of random characters is hard and when IT tells you that you should really have a separate password for each authentication service, it becomes impossible. How can we fix… Continue reading