Raw Thoughts
White House Cyber Strategy – A Shift in Responsibility
The White House has unveiled the Biden-Harris Administration National Cybersecurity Strategy, and it has some really important implications for the tech channel. Two Key Topics Directly from the WhiteHouse.gov website. "Rebalance" the Responsibility Topic 1 aims to...
Dear SaaS Companies: You’re Holding Us Up!
CIS 6.7, CSF PR.AC-1, and just about every other security framework call for centralized account management. SSO is the best way to deliver centralized account management in the modern SaaSified world. However, even in 2023, many SaaS companies nonsensically insist...
I Moved to 1Password
Some time ago, I shared on LinkedIn that I had decided to tinker with 1Password, so I thought I would drop an update about it.
How I Protect My Kids Online
This is a particularly hot topic, and one I’m asked about relatively often. I figured I would cover it here… how do I go about protecting my kids when they’re using the internet?
Picking a Security Tool in Today’s World
Today's cybersecurity market is overcrowded, and full of marketing teams who write claims that fall flat on their faces simply in the way they're written. In this overcrowded market, how is an MSP to choose? Let's be Honest: The Market is Annoying I'm a huge fan of...
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Has your MSP reached out to tell you that your hardware or software is out of date and you need to buy new stuff?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...
