Tech Notes

As work-from-anywhere becomes the norm, access to confidential information is no longer protected by physical access to an office or to a MFA is one of the most effective and easiest layers to add for preventing this kind of unauthorized access and improving your digital security.

When you next try to renew your cybersecurity insurance, you might find the process for approval and the policies available are quite different from before.

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.)

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?

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.

Phishing emails and text messages attempt to trick you into clicking on a link, opening an attachment, or sending proprietary information. Often the return address is the name of a person or company you recognize, leading you to believe the message is legitimate. But there are many ways for you to recognize phishing and to avoid falling for scams.

Macktez has partnered for over a decade with 4th Bin for e-waste recycling and certified data destruction. To help clients avoid the high minimums required to schedule a pick-up, we can hold equipment securely until we have a full load to turn over to 4th Bin.

Macktez CTO Reilly Scull joined ChannelPro Weekly for a discussion about how to take advantage of JumpCloud’s cloud-based directory platform for user and device management.