Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

Sometimes, when you log in, you must enter a code you receive by text or from an app on your phone. However, if you use one-tap login, all you need to do is click a checkmark on your phone’s screen. Some organizations, including Microsoft, give you the option to skip the password component altogether. Your […]

Technical issues happen all the time, and you don’t hear about them because your IT professionals solve the problem efficiently and quietly. They use their skills and experience to perform monumental feats every month, and most executives have no idea what their professionals accomplished. Once, a CEO told me that he thought he should fire […]

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. […]

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, […]