Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

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 […]

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 […]

Some services, free for home use, can protect your family devices from accessing malicious web servers even if you accidentally click a fraudulent link. If you already use Eero or some other family safety service, it probably already filters out bad sites for you, and you needn’t use these services. But if you have no […]

Recently, the CEO of an organization told me that his budgeting process demonstrates his commitment to protecting from cyber-attacks because he includes his investments in the IT Vital Systems Reviews as part of his risk management budget. You might already do this too.