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04/29/2023

Here's our latest whitepaper from our Digital Learning Series. https://www.itideas.com/how-to-select-a-digital-password-manager

03/18/2023

Over the past 2-years I've had a dialogue with existing and prospective clients about On-premise exchange servers. Some we've had to fire (prospects who refuse to move to the cloud), and some who were reluctant to spend to do the migration. This recent alert from Microsoft says it all. Not only are on-premise customers in the crosshairs - but all of their deployed Outlook clients are vulnerable as well. Our "baked-in approach" was way ahead of the curve on this one. "Steve - get everyone off on-prem hosted exchange". I wish I had been more forceful. Now we're migrating a dozen clients overnight. Lesson to all... on-prem exchange servers... You CANNOT secure your Exchange server alone! CALL TO ACTION - reach out to us to figure out how to be secure in this new cybersecurity landscape.

03/15/2023

It's HERE... and released on "Pi" day to boot!

03/01/2023

The LastPass breach back in August 2022 keeps getting worse. Read on about the latest bombshell – how the hackers stole a LastPass DevOps engineer's corporate vault.

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Already smarting from a breach that stole customer vaults, LastPass has more bad news.

02/27/2023

Google Workspace individual accounts recently got a gift. Cloud storage was bumped from 15GB to 1TB.

Google announced the cloud storage update on its official blog.

02/25/2023

One of the latest password studies found that most people have a false sense of cyber security.

LastPass today released findings from its fifth annual Psychology of Password findings, which revealed even with cybersecurity education on the rise,

02/22/2023

Beware of an unexpected text from your CEO. It could be a scam!

Everyone wants to stay on good terms with their employer. Threat actors know this too, and they exploit this weakness accordingly. Don’t fall for it.

02/21/2023

Popular retailer Bed Bath & Beyond is assessing a phishing-caused data breach. This is one to watch if you've ever shared your data with the store.

The home goods retailer doesn’t believe sensitive or personal data was accessed by the third party.

02/16/2023

You should lean into culture if you want to improve your organization's cybersecurity results.

By Chris Barry, President, Microsoft Canada The evolving sophistication of the global threat landscape, along with our almost overnight adoption of the hybrid work model has caused a paradigm shift…

02/15/2023

Need to improve security in your building? You may want to consider one of these top smart locks.

A smart lock lets you go key-free and control your door from afar. Our pick, the Ultraloq U-Bolt Pro WiFi, is small, attractive, versatile, and reliable.