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• Kelowna / Okanagan business tech support
• Cybersecurity • Business Continuity • Cloud IT

10/29/2026

Pop quiz. 🚨

An employee account has been compromised. Three steps, shuffled across the carousel. Should you reset the password, call IT, or preserve the evidence?

Most people put "reset the password" first. Swipe through, make your call, and check the reveal at the end.

Save this before you ever need it.

10/28/2026

As soon as an employee mentions a strange ransom note on their screen, the clock starts.

The scariest hour in cybersecurity is the hour after an intruder gets past your firewall. Uncertainty is the attacker's best friend.

When roles are unassigned and decisions happen in panic, the damage multiplies. Process beats panic.

Read our latest blog to know what your first 60 minutes should look like.

10/26/2026

A cyberattack is stressful enough. Confusion around the response makes the situation harder to manage.

Who contacts IT? Who has authority to make decisions? Who updates employees? Who talks to vendors, customers, insurers, or leadership? Who documents what happened?

When those answers get figured out mid-crisis, a bad morning turns into a bad quarter.

Before October ends, make sure your team knows who owns the response.

10/23/2026

When a vendor relationship ends, access cleanup is easy to miss.

Former suppliers, contractors, consultants, agencies, and service providers may still have active logins, shared folder access, admin permissions, password manager entries, remote access tools, or software accounts.

Lingering access creates unnecessary exposure risk.

Take five minutes this week to identify former vendors that may still have access.

10/22/2026

Employees aren't the only people who have access to your business systems and data.

Bookkeepers, consultants, agencies, contractors, software vendors, IT providers, and previous service partners may have accounts, shared folders, integrations, admin permissions, or remote access.

Necessary access should still have clear boundaries. Broad permissions, old accounts, and forgotten integrations create exposure risks even after the original work is done.

Vendor access should be visible, limited, reviewed, and removed when it's no longer needed.

Save this and make “Who still has access?” a question at your next leadership meeting.

10/21/2026

Your cybersecurity doesn't stop at your front door.

A business can have strong internal controls and still inherit exposure through an outside organization with access to its systems, files, accounts, or data.

Vendors, contractors, consultants, software providers, and other partners need access to do their work. If one of those organizations is compromised, their access becomes a path into your environment.

Vendor access needs clear boundaries, regular review, and prompt removal when it's no longer needed.

Read the blog to find out how vendor access can become your security problem.

10/19/2026

Vendor onboarding focuses on pricing, timelines, deliverables, and getting the work moving.

Access gets less attention than it should.

Before a new vendor is connected to your systems, files, accounts, or data, one question belongs in the conversation:

What will this vendor be able to access?

A vendor may only need one platform, folder, or limited account. Without clear boundaries, access expands quickly and stays in place longer than anyone intended.

Cybersecurity is part of vendor management and shouldn't be thought about after procurement is finished.

Share this with the person who manages vendors at your organization.

10/16/2026

QR codes seem routine and can be easy to trust.

Codes leading to a payment page, login screen, or unusual request deserve the same caution as any suspicious link. Red flags worth remembering:

- unexpected payment requests
- forced logins
- urgency
- odd placement
- altered stickers
- shortened destinations or instructions that steer people around the normal process

If a QR code asks for payment, credentials, MFA, or business information, pause before continuing. Save this checklist for the next time a QR code asks you to log in or pay.

10/15/2026

Some phishing emails don't ask you to click a suspicious link. They ask you to scan a QR code.

Codes may appear inside an invoice email, delivery notice, document alert, or payment request. The message looks routine, and the scan moves the interaction from a work computer to a phone.

Once the page opens, the destination is harder to inspect. A fake login page, payment form, or file download looks convincing on a smaller screen.

Before scanning a QR code from an email, pause and verify where it is sending you.

Send this to someone who scans QR codes without thinking twice.

10/14/2026

QR codes look harmless because the destination is hidden until after the scan.

At work, they may appear on invoices, delivery notices, parking signs, event materials, or office posters. The task feels normal, so the scan can happen quickly.

The risk comes when the page asks for a password, payment details, MFA code, file download, or business information.

Before entering anything sensitive, pause and verify where the QR code is sending you.

Read this week’s blog before you scan your next QR code.

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