Information Security

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Have you heard of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?

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Have you heard of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?

Microsoft has included antivirus with their operating systems for many years, but in my experience very few businesses run Defender as their primary antivirus platform. Even though Defender Antivirus is a good product, it has been difficult to manage across a business, doesn’t have a dedicated console and is missing more advanced features like web content filtering.

I’m sure many people are surprised to hear that Microsoft does actually have a full-featured product designed for business, with a dedicated console. It’s called Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and is like Defender antivirus on steroids, with more advanced Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) capabilities.

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Essential cybersecurity strategies to protect your business

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Essential cybersecurity strategies to protect your business

Everyone needs a strategy, right? What are you doing to protect your business against cyber threats, and the real possibility of someone stealing or destroying your data. An attack could come in any number of ways, a data breach and the theft of critical data or possibly a ransomware attack and the destruction of important files. Many companies, especially in the SMB space don't even have the security basics in place and it can be difficult even knowing where to start. It's simply not enough these days to put a firewall and anti-virus program in place and sit back and relax. Believe me, I'd love it if that was the case, I’d be gladly taking a nap right now.

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Don't rely on a password alone to protect your online accounts!

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Don't rely on a password alone to protect your online accounts!

Everyone has information that they want to protect which must remain confidential. These days it’s quite likely that this information sits in an account that is accessible on the internet and is at increased risk of exposure. This information doesn’t have to be a business account - how about personal email accounts such as Gmail? I know people that live out of their personal Gmail account - the one place which contains every email, document and contact that they have. If their password fell into the wrong hands it would be a disaster and unfortunately account breaches are now part of everyday life.

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Have you secured your Office 365 email?

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Have you secured your Office 365 email?

I’ve been migrating on-premises business email systems to Office 365 for the past few years. Email is often seen as the first logical step into the cloud, a low risk move. Outlook performs well due to caching, even over slow links, so you get an up to date, feature rich environment with little risk of negatively impacting users.