FOCUS on TECH - Understand Your Risk

Understand Your Risk

If you are an employer and you have people working from home on a computer that you have provided them on their home network… they are at risk and your organization is at risk.

4th of July PSA - Hackers Don't Take Holidays

Cyber criminals don't receive paid holidays, unless YOU give them one.

This Independence Day, don't give cyber criminals a paid vacation on YOUR dime.

Extra vigilance and caution is required for online activities not only this weekend, but every holiday weekend.

FOCUS on TECH - The Cyber Pandemic

The Cyber Pandemic

We are facing an enemy that's unseen...

misunderstood...

not taken seriously...

...who has the means to unleash itself with devastating impact on our daily life.

FOCUS on TECH - Communicate Better!

5 things we can do as leaders to enable better communication

Invest in better Cameras! Great cameras like the Logitech C930E that we recommend aren't available right now. We need to plan for this and look ahead.

FOCUS on TECH - You live in an insecure environment

What does the CyberSpace Solarium Commission have to do with your daily work environment?

On June 2, 2020 the CyberSpace Solarium Commission released a white paper on "Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic". Jeff Dettloff does a great job translating what this means for YOU in your daily life.

“Did you turn it off and on again?," quips a tech from the show 'The IT Crowd' as one of their recurring punch-lines.

That’s a question that gets asked a lot by IT professionals, so much so that the concept gets joked about, not only regarding computers, but in other areas of life as well.

Focus on Tech - 340,000 Michiganders effected by unemployment fraud?

What do you do if you’ve experienced Unemployment Insurance Fraud?

On Friday, June 5th 2020 the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity revealed an estimated 340,000 Michiganders have had their accounts flagged as the state investigates possible fraud throughout its system.

How do you keep a good pulse on your team? On your customers? How do you stay connected?

Polling or surveys in an often overlooked tool in our toolkit. We recommend Microsoft Forms.

Is your organization #QuarantineReady ?

Here are six questions to ask yourself (or those in your organization) to help guide you towards the best ways to become #QuarantineReady for your organization.

What systems are so vital to the business that access needs to be available at all times and from any location?
Where are your files and/or database(s)? Can they be securely accessed from a remote location?
Communication systems - can your phones, email, etc be securely accessed without someone on-site administering their operations?
Accounting - can you run your business securely and successfully without local access to accounting/ERP systems?
What Internet service is available at the remote location - is it fast enough for the user to do their job without frustration? 
For all of the above, what steps are you taking to ensure that they are operationally secure? Cyber-Security is ultimately a human behavior problem much more than it is purely a technology problem.