Time marches on. If you use Microsoft Teams, that is a good thing. Why? Because there are some new April Teams...
Dan Callahan
Use These Tools to Run Better Meetings
Meetings. We all say we hate them. And yet, we all hold them. Can we do better? Is it possible we can run better...
Choose Your Security When You Choose Your Apps
Today I will share my experience working with two different organizations on security. One organization is an...
How to Frame Your Grants Management System Selection
Is it something about Spring? In just the last couple of days two organizations have asked me about helping them...
Is It Time You Looked at Managed Detection and Response?
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a hot space in cybersecurity these days. Gartner, Forrester, and IDC all have...
Microsoft 365 Nonprofit Price Increases Are Coming
Microsoft 365 nonprofit price increases are coming. You know this if you read the email Microsoft sent last week. If...
How to Respond to the Okta Breach
Are you freaking out about the Okta breach? Allow me to make some suggestions about actions you can take to ensure the...
Open APIs and Crowdsourced Hacking: What Could Go Wrong?
Sometimes inspiration is not a straight-line thing. Today’s post is a case in point. I saw in a TAG Slack thread...
Get Started with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
I was on a call yesterday, where consultants from Accenture were reviewing the cybersecurity implications of the war...
Microsoft is Introducing New Emojis
I write many posts that cover important, weighty subjects. This will not be one of those. As I scrolled through my...
What Are Some Encryption Best Practices?
In working with a customer on their security program, they asked us about encryption best practices. We determined...
Have You Tried the Buddy System?
No doubt you have heard of the buddy system. You probably have experience with it. When I learned scuba diving the...
Make Small Changes to Be a Better Manager
I am in the middle of a week-long security training (Microsoft 365 Compliance Center; expect a post soon) but decided...
Hot Desking Challenges and How to Manage Them
We have all had to cope with the changes caused by COVID-19, no? Last spring and summer we were talking about “return...
Get Creative to Manage Employee Turnover
Employee turnover is a big topic these days. It even has a fancy name, which tells you it is a thing: The Great...
Start the New Year With These Recent Teams Features
Another day, another round of Teams updates. With the flood of recent Teams features coming out, it is easy to lose...
Create an Organizational Dashboard and Change the World
If you look at John Mohr’s LinkedIn profile, you will see he says, “Let’s solve hard problems and change the world.”...
What You Need to Know About the Log4j Vulnerability
Oops. As if an actual virus was not bad enough, now IT Managers find out about the log4j vulnerability. I am going to...