Tech Notes

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.

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.