Security

Discover stories, ideas, and inspiration from this collection.

23 articles

March 6, 2023 By Dan M365, PowerShell, Security

Disable External Forwarding With These 2 Steps

You, for many reasons (Security being a big one), that you need to Disable External Forwarding for your M365 Users. In this article I can show how to check which users are using forwarding and then how to turn it off for the entire organization so it won’t be a concern going forward. List Users […]

November 14, 2022 By Dan PowerShell, Security

Two Ways to Guard Against MFA Fatigue Attack

Let’s face it, Cyber-attacks are on the rise. It seems like that every time we read the news some organization somewhere in the world has had their system compromised in some way. A good example is what happened to Uber the other week. They were a victim of an MFA Fatigue attack that allowed the […]

October 12, 2022 By Dan Security

Two Ways Why Your SPF Record is Broken and How to Fix it

You have made some changes to your SPF record in DNS (or not) and your SPF record is broken. One day resources that depend on it in your organization stop working? What happened? There are generally two ways this record can become problematic but first, What is an SPF record anyways….. An SPF Record is […]

July 13, 2022 By Dan HelpDesk, Security

Clean up any Download Folder With This One Tip

Download Folder Cleanup Downloading files to your computer can quickly fill your hard drive. If you’re frequently downloading files, it may be necessary to delete them. Deleting unneeded files is generally good maintenance and will help with your systems performance, so you wont’s get angry about that!! More importantly, it is good for security and […]

May 11, 2022 By Dan Security

Your Email has Been Hacked! Do these 5 things

I have seen it all too often. A user goes to work and either comes in to the office to check their email or looks at their phone beforehand and oh no….they see a bunch of emails from their contacts all asking the same thing. “Why are you sending this to me? Dude you have […]

May 6, 2022 By Dan Security

Using MFA…Why should you care?

Multi Factor Authentication has been around for awhile. In fact all systems from a simple blogging service to a banking system have some form of MFA. In fact, a lot of systems do not even make it a choice anymore. This article is for the hold-outs that are trying NOT to use MFA on systems […]

May 2, 2022 By Dan Security

Secure Password in 5 Steps (Even if you are Lazy)

Let’s face it. You need a secure password. You have to remember a lot of passwords in your online travels. There are many ways to create a secure password and manage it, but if you are like me you are LAZY! There is a way to create a very secure password that is very easy […]