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Last week we talked about the difference between having backups and being able to recover. This week, let’s zoom out. Having a backup is one piece of a bigger conversation, and that conversation has a name: BCDR. What BCDR Means BCDR stands for business continuity and disaster recovery. It sounds like something only large companies…
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Most business owners know backups matter. The trouble is that “backup” gets used to describe several things that aren’t backups at all. Many businesses now run almost entirely in the cloud, in tools like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Email lives online, files sync between devices, and everything feels safe, so it’s easy to assume…
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Most business owners understand the importance of having strong passwords. The problem is that strong passwords and memorable passwords are rarely the same thing. Think about how many accounts your business relies on every day. Email, banking, accounting software, payroll systems, vendor portals, shipping services, social media accounts, and countless other applications all require login…
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Most business owners understand the importance of having strong passwords. We have all been told to avoid simple passwords, use a mix of letters and numbers, and never share credentials with others. While that advice is still important, the reality is that strong passwords alone are no longer enough to protect your business. Cybercriminals have…
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month doesn’t need scary headlines. Most of the time, the best defense is just knowing what to look for. Most of us get dozens of emails a week: invoices, shipping updates, meeting invites, vendor messages. Cybercriminals know this too, and modern phishing emails are built to blend right into that flow. They rarely…
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Most business owners assume they’re protected because they have antivirus installed, and to be fair, antivirus is still an important part of cybersecurity. The problem is that today’s cybercriminals aren’t relying on the same attacks they were using ten years ago. Modern threats have become faster, more sophisticated, and increasingly designed to evade traditional security…
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When most people think about email security, they think about spam. Unwanted messages. Fake invoices. Suspicious links. Annoying advertisements. But modern email threats go far beyond nuisance spam, and today’s phishing attacks are often sophisticated enough to fool even experienced users. Phishing emails used to be obvious; Poor grammar. Strange formatting. Fake-looking websites. Nowadays, many phishing attempts…
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Running a business means relying on email every day- quotes, invoices, customer communication, internal updates. But most businesses don’t realize how easy it is for email to be misconfigured, spoofed, or flagged as spam. We regularly work with companies that assume everything is “working fine”… until emails start going missing or customers receive suspicious messages that appear to come from them. This usually comes down to…
