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How to Make Sure Your Business Owns Its Domain Name
Article Summary: Your business should control the account where its domain is registered. The registration details, recovery methods, billing information, renewal settings, and DNS access should not depend on one employee, contractor, web designer, or IT provider. Once your website and email are working, the domain name rarely needs day-to-day attention. Renewal may happen automatically,…
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How Hackers Keep Access to Your Email After You Change the Password
Summary: Changing the password blocks someone from signing in with the old password. However, they may still have an active session, a forwarding rule, access through a connected app, mailbox permissions, or a recovery method they added. When someone gets into a business email account, changing the password should happen immediately. Once that is done,…
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How Long Business Computers Last and When to Replace Them
Summary: Three to five years is a practical replacement range for many business computers. The right time depends on security support, reliability, performance, warranty coverage, repair costs, and the employee’s work. Replace any computer that cannot run a supported operating system or the software your business requires. Most business computers do not fail all at…
Archived posts
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5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant
Microsoft has tightened several default settings in Microsoft 365 over the past few years. Newer tenants get more protection out of the box than tenants set up before 2022 or so. The problem is that legacy configurations stay in place. A setting changed for new tenants in 2024 doesn’t retroactively change in yours, and historical…
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What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form
Cyber insurance applications include a question that catches a lot of small business owners off guard: “Do you maintain immutable, air-gapped, or offline backups of your critical business data?” Carriers added that question to renewal forms because ransomware operators worked out that the fastest way to force a payout is to wipe the backups first…
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Why Human Habits Are Your Biggest Security Risk
Most cyberattacks do not start with a sophisticated intrusion. They start with a click on a personal email, a reused password, or a file uploaded to a familiar cloud service because the approved option felt slower. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 68% of breaches involve the human element. Not a zero-day exploit.…