As many of us continue to work and collaborate from home, there has been a steady uptick in the number of security...
Jackie Bilodeau
Are You Prepared? 5 Reasons Working from Home is the “New Normal”
For information technology COVID has been the push into the swimming pool. Sink or swim. Mostly, we have swum. The...
Leverage the Cloud for Security
We had it all wrong. When Salesforce and other SaaS (software as a service) services hit the market, we pundits talked...
Free Security Checkup: Don’t Miss Out!
Many organizations plan to continue their work from home arrangement through the end of 2020, if not longer. And we...
Critical Cyber Security Questions & The Answers You Need Now
I gave a talk today at the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers’ virtual conference. (Here's the next session.) I spoke...
Zero Trust Solutions: A Long and Winding Road
Last week I introduced you to Zero Trust technology. The vision of a Zero Trust architecture today is like that of...
Zero Trust Technologies: What They Are and the 5 You Need Now
According to a recent Microsoft study, “94% of companies report that they are in the process of deploying new Zero...
Step Up to Microsoft 365
It’s time to step up to Microsoft 365. Why? Security is the answer. I’ll explain why you should think about stepping...
Open a Teams Meeting in a New Window
Microsoft has rolled out a new Teams feature that I really appreciate. It lets me open a Teams meeting in a new...
Hackers Deploy Powerful New Tricks
Malicious actors are showing an increasing level of sophistication in their attacks, and it’s working. What is also...
Act Now to Manage Automatic External Email Forwarding
If you use Exchange Online, you will want to take some action right away to manage automatic external email...
3 Great Guides to Disaster Recovery Planning
How’s your organization’s disaster recovery plan? Do you have one? Has it been updated recently? This post will...
Act Against Ransomware and Data Exfiltration
It’s time to step up your game as you act against ransomware. Here’s why. KnowBe4, in this blog post (shout out to my...
Super Time-Saving Tips! Opening Files in Teams (video)
Back in January, my colleague wrote a post on opening files in Teams. This spring, Microsoft rolled out new ways to...
Do You Have a Right-Sized Business Continuity Plan?
I had a déjà vu moment talking with a customer this week. The customer asked me how we could deliver (what I would...
New Power Platform Features in Teams: Streamlining Our Digital Workplace
Working remotely and having to rely on digital interaction and whatever tools are available to us to do our job is our...
There’s Even More Reason to Leverage the CIS Controls for Security
Here at CGNET we’re big fans of the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and their CIS Controls. As we wrote here,...
See Microsoft’s New Teams Meeting Updates! (video)
In July, Microsoft rolled out several new updates for Teams meetings. Some of the nicest include a second window for...