There seems to be a rather unfortunate crusade against work from home and even hybrid work. There's a number of predicted problems that are driving this type of behavior from leaders. The obvious one being an 'old school' understanding of how work is done, or even...
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Electronic vs Digital Signatures
Some time ago, I posted about certificate authentication, and certificates themselves. In those articles, I mentioned digital signatures and made a really small mention that digital and electronic signatures are two very different things. In this article, let's unpack...
Microsoft: The $20B Security Business
In late January, Microsoft shared that their Microsoft Security has grown to over $20 Billion (USD) in revenue per year. That's a massive milestone and puts them far ahead of much of the cybersecurity product market. Even cooler for a nerd like me, they put out some...
No – We aren’t trying to make a quick buck.
Has your MSP reached out to tell you that your hardware or software is out of date and you need to buy new stuff? I ran an MSP for five years, and I had to do it all the time. On its face, it may seem like we're trying to make a quick buck. However, the truth of the...
What if my cloud provider dies?
This weekend has been marred by an ongoing outage at major cloud provider Rackspace that is impacting their entire Hosted Exchange offering. After a full day of being down with lackluster (to say the least) communications, Rackspace came out and admitted that they've...
Basic Auth is Going Way – What about printers?
Man, I hate printers. But nonetheless, we've got to deal with them. With Basic Authentication finally going away (I hope), you may be running into problems with that famous scan to email functionality. For a lot of multi-function devices out there, we're lucky if we...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month Marketing (2022)
It's Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the on month a year where people other than us are paying attention to the details in cybersecurity. Joking aside, public and executive awareness isn't where it should be, but I like to believe it's getting better. In this post, I'm...
Dear Security Vendors: We Need to Talk
It's not us, it's you. We need to talk about marketing and how we should be presenting our products and services to newer practitioners in our space. For too long now, there's been this marketing trend of "100% protection." It's got to stop. The Truth About...