How to Easily Manage Your Passwords

Date: 02/11/2019 Author: Derek Schwenk Categories: Cybersecurity, Helpful Tips, Managed Services Tags: password management, password securityNo comments yet.

According to Cyber Risk Analytics, over 4.2 billion credentials were stolen in 2016. Unfortunately, breaches happen on such a large scale because people don’t follow proper password protocol. Today, we’ll teach you how to manage your passwords easily and securely, including why you should use different passwords and why you may want to use a password manager.

Passwords are like keys; each one grants access to a different room (or account). Imagine that you use the same key to get into your house and your office. Or if that key is also used to get into your car. That doesn’t seem very secure, does it? Now imagine that someone makes a copy of that key, and now a stranger has access to your house, office, and car.

This scenario may seem scary, but this is the risk you run when you use the same password for multiple accounts. And, as we’ve seen from the Cyber Risk Analytics study, this same scenario plays out billions of times per year. You and your business can avoid being a victim if you vary your passwords and use password managers.

Should Employees Receive Cybersecurity Training?

Date: 01/04/2019 Author: Derek Schwenk Categories: Cybersecurity, Helpful Tips, IT Guide Tags: cyber security, small business, training tipsNo comments yet.

Cybersecurity training has quickly become extremely important for businesses. Employees don’t need to be cybersecurity experts, but they should be practicing healthy cyber habits.

New-hire training and regularly scheduled refresher training courses should be established in order to instill the data security culture of your organization. As always, preparedness is the key to preventing most security breaches. It is always best to know how to avoid becoming a victim.

How to Share Your Calendar on Outlook

Date: 12/03/2018 Author: Derek Schwenk Categories: Helpful Tips, Microsoft Outlook, Office 365 Tags: microsoft, office 365, outlookNo comments yet.

Microsoft Outlook offers many useful features to make your work life easier. Today, we’ll dive into Outlook’s calendar sharing feature, which allows users to view each others’ availability.

As an employer, you know how important it is that your employees are all on the same page. One easy way to do that is to share your Outlook calendar! Sharing your calendar lets select people know your schedule, so that they can efficiently plan meetings, projects, etc. The best part is that you decide how much information that people can see, and who sees it.

There are many customization options available to you when you share your calendar. From the Calendar Properties box, you can dictate how much information is shared and if invitees can edit your calendar. You can also revoke calendar sharing at any time. Outlook’s calendar lets you be in complete control of your schedule, so let’s get into how to access these features!

How To Leave A Google Review

Date: 11/05/2018 Author: Derek Schwenk Categories: Digital Marketing, Helpful Tips, Small Business Tags: google review, marketing, search engine marketingNo comments yet.

Google reviews are very important for customers as well as businesses. So why aren’t more people leaving reviews on Google? We want to show you how easy and helpful it is to leave reviews for businesses on Google.

Why It’s Important To Assign User Rights

Date: 10/17/2018 Author: Andrew Lopez Categories: Helpful Tips, User Roles Tags: user rights, user rolesNo comments yet.

Handing the keys of a Ferrari to an 18 year old kid is ultimately a bad idea. The same concept can be said about providing all company employees administrative rights. The importance of user permissions is a critical business factor. One that may cost a business lots of money if not properly implemented. We’ll explain.

What Are User Rights?

PC Mag defines user rights as the authorization given to users (company employees) that enables them to access specific resources on the network, such as data files, applications, printers and scanners. There are numerous types of user roles. For example, a person can be a standard user, guest user, or administrator. These are only a handful of the type of roles company users can be. Typically, most company employees will fall under the category of standard users. These individuals can perform day-to-day tasks dedicated to their specific job role without needing higher level user rights. An employee with higher rights can wreak havoc on a computer, or worse, on a company network. The last issue a business wants to experience is an employee’s PC being infiltrated by ransomware.