Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

Some organizations move their data to the cloud and stop backing it up. Cloud services offer ways to restore the data. But what happens if an attacker deletes your files and deletes the backup at the cloud service too? Consider backing up your data at a different cloud service. It is less likely that an […]

Attackers steal passwords, people forget passwords, resetting passwords is a pain. Microsoft provides a way to remove passwords from your Microsoft account. That way, you can log in without passwords to Microsoft Office, Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, Windows, and other Microsoft products. You still must prove it is you logging in, and you could use a […]

Executives, please remember: Attackers do not need to know any passwords if they are already inside a computer. They can wait for the user to log in for them. Even if you’ve moved all of your servers, programs, and storage to the cloud, passwords aren’t enough. To access all of your assets, attackers dwelling in […]

What if the attackers: Hack your organization’s network, then Hack your remote workers’ work computers, and then Use the remote workers’ work computers to encrypt all the computers in the worker’s family household? That could mean that all of your workers’ families lose all of their family’s photographs, students’ schoolwork, and everything on household computers. […]