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. Home networks are generally not protected and easy to exploit. Understand

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. Cybersecurity professionals see a spike

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. These Cyber Attacks constitute nothing less than a digital Pandemic. WE are the ones being attacked. As business leaders, WE

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. Working via video conference is not likely to go away anytime soon.

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

“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. The story was

Focus on Tech – Stay Connected How to stay connected with polls and surveys 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. If you’d like to better understand how you

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