Mike Foster’s IT Security & Best Practices Blog

So far, it appears that more than 30,000 organizations, including small businesses, are compromised. The US National Security Council urges organizations, including small businesses, to “take immediate measures” to detect compromise.

Assuming your remote workers’ do not get too cold, they can continue to work at home during short power outages. You can encourage them to buy, or even issue them, a small uninterruptable power supply UPS for their Internet router. Laptops have built-in battery power. If a worker has a desktop computer or other networking […]

Equip all of your Work from Home users with a cloned drive so they can help protect your network and get up and running quickly if they get ransomware or if their hard drive crashes. Protect your home family computers the same way.

Will running one rarely used program stop future attacks? It will in the SolarWinds attack and perhaps stop future compromises too.