How “smart” is your home? Could you list everything under your roof that’s connected to the internet? Let’s start that list – computers, tablets, smartphones, TV, thermostat, speakers, game consoles, hearing aids… you get the idea. These are all endpoints that can create potential vulnerabilities that can lead to a cyber intrusion.
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), and the theme for 2020 is – “Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart." NCSAM is in its 17th year and in the years since it was launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance, its mission has been to promote safe behaviors so that Americans can act responsibly and stay safe as they use the internet in their work and personal lives.
SharePoint is Microsoft’s file storage and sharing platform, but it can do a lot more for your business than just save your files. If you’re looking for a way to use technology to improve your business, then moving to SharePoint is the direction you should go to streamline processes, beef up security, optimize your remote workforce, and improve internal communications.
What Can You Do with Microsoft 365?
USE CASE: Microsoft Power Automate
SITUATION:
A company had a series of tasks that needed to be completed whenever a new hire was onboarded. These tasks included activities in different departments. For example, HR gathered employee information; Accounting set up payroll; Marketing ordered shirts and business cards; IT set up computer equipment; and Security created key cards for building access.
What Can You Do with Microsoft 365?
USE CASE: Microsoft Teams
SITUATION:
A company needed to record incoming shipments of supplies at various job locations. The onsite employees were using their personal cell phones to take photos of the shipments and were sending those via text messaging to the office to verify the shipments.
If you’re relying on unspoken or informal standards to communicate security expectations to your remote workforce, then you can expect to have some confusion and gaps in the way your company is managing cybersecurity. Documented security policies are what you need to inform employees about acceptable behavior, and to help them to understand their role in maintaining cybersecurity.
If you need to follow regulatory compliance for protecting information, you probably already know that a good chunk of your cybersecurity strategy is in deciding how you’re going to control access to information with security policies. The creation of security policies, however, is important for any business that wants to provide consistency in how they handle data.
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Ellicott City, Maryland – July 28, 2020 – XPERTECHS, has been named as one of the world’s premier managed service providers on the prestigious 2020 annual Channel Futures MSP 501 rankings.
For the 13th year running, MSPs from around the globe completed an exhaustive survey and application this spring to self-report product offerings, annual total and recurring revenues, profits, revenue mix, growth opportunities and company and customer demographic information.
When Bill Thrush was starting his career as an attorney back in 1994, the internet was new and the technology that law firms depended on were the telephone and the fax machine. He has watched technology evolve over the years, and he’s been a proponent of remote working long before COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home to work.
The remote work transition for law firm Friedman, Framme and Thrush didn’t start in March of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic caused companies to send their employees home to work. It actually began nearly five years earlier when Bill Thrush, managing partner, set a plan in motion to downsize the physical footprint of the company, while upsizing its virtual footprint.
