Category: Supporting IT Professionals
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Help Your Third-Party Providers Be More Secure Because Your Security is Only as Good as Their Security
Below is a letter you can send your third-party service providers if you want to give them pointers on being more secure. We’ve done the work to make this quicker for you. None of these are unreasonable for you to request. You and your IT team can customize the letter to fit the relationship best. […]
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If You Outsource Your IT, it is Their Job to Keep You Happy, Not the Other Way Around.
After we performed a cybersecurity audit for a company many years ago, the President and CEO assigned the recommendations to their IT consulting firm. What is different about this lead executive is that he gently applies firm pressure on their IT consultants to complete the recommended improvements. He’s kind and respectful to his consulting company, […]
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Protect Against Work From Home Computer Attacks Compromising your Primary Network
Tell your IT provider, or internal IT team, that you want them to isolate or filter the VPN connections. At least discuss this security step with them. If any users connect via VPN to your office, be sure your IT team isolates or filters the data that travels from the VPN connections to your primary […]
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