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Email security protocols to be enforced by Google and Yahoo in February

Google and Yahoo have both announced that they will require all incoming email to be authenticated with verification and security protocols starting in February 2024. This is a huge endorsement of best practices from two of the largest email service providers, and a critical moment for every organization to set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC protocols properly and monitor them for compliance.

Posted: 2023-11-27 Filed Under: Bulletins

Just Right: How can HVAC give us all our own Goldilocks zone?

Join Berardo Matalucci (Co-founder and CEO at MIMiC) and Noah Landow (Founder and CEO at Macktez) for an informal conversation between a leading technology solutions firm and the founder of an innovative, engineering driven startup reframing heating cooling from a building to a personal scale. 

Posted: 2023-10-16 Filed Under: Events

Microsoft finally honors DMARC

Configured properly, and then monitored and adjusted over time, DMARC can reduce cybersecurity risks and increase deliverability for legitimate email. (Configured improperly, however, DMARC instructions could result in all of your outgoing email getting rejected — so you need to know what is going on under the hood.)

Posted: 2023-10-6 Filed Under: Tech Notes

Las Vegas ransomware incident highlights need for cybervigilance

A ransomware incident ensnaring two of Las Vegas’s largest casinos made national headlines last month and inspired a lot of questions about ransomware, multi-factor authentication, single-sign on, access management, and vishing. What happened? What went wrong?

Posted: 2023-10-2 Filed Under: Tech Notes

Fast, Cheap, and Good: Cases for local storage in an age of cloud

Our first event at our new office was a conversation about the best circumstances for local storage at time when most organizations are moving file storage to the cloud.

Posted: 2023-09-21 Filed Under: Events

The new era of access management

An identity and access management (IAM) solution is the padlock or firewall for the work-from-anywhere era. Before you give users access to any business resources, assets, or information, you should implement IAM as a critical component of your organization’s security program.

Posted: 2023-09-15 Filed Under: Tech Notes

Critical Microsoft Outlook exploit requires immediate security update

Microsoft has released security updates for Windows and Outlook that all users should apply immediately, as they address several critical security vulnerabilities that have already been exploited by Russian hackers.

Posted: 2023-03-17 Filed Under: Bulletins

Google Drive changes in macOS

Over the past few months, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive users on Apple computers have experienced small and not-so-small changes to how files saved to these cloud services appear in the Finder. The notes below address the user experience with Google Drive specifically, but some of these particulars are relevant also for other cloud file storage solutions.

Posted: 2023-02-15 Filed Under: Tech Notes

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