Should Employees Use Personal Devices for Work?
Summary: Allow personal devices only for approved work, through approved apps, and when the device meets your security requirements. Use company-owned devices for administration, sensitive work, or jobs that require large amounts of data to be stored locally. Employees often use personal devices for work long before the business has actually made a decision about […]
Why Your Employees Shouldn’t Have Administrator Access to Their Computers
Summary: Employees should use standard accounts for email, web browsing, and everyday work. Administrator access should be limited to approved IT tasks and protected with a separate account. Administrator access often starts with one small request. An employee needs to install a printer, update a specialist program, or change a setting on their computer. Giving […]
The 30-Minute IT Check Every Small Business Should Do Once a Month
Summary: Most IT problems don’t appear out of nowhere. Backups quietly stop running, updates sit unfinished for weeks, and old staff accounts stay switched on for months. A short check once a month catches these while they’re still cheap to fix. This post covers the six things to look at. Most owners only look at […]
Why Bad Onboarding Is the Real Cause of Messy Offboarding
By the time an employee hands in their notice, the decisions that will make their departure clean or messy have already been made. Here’s the uncomfortable part: they were made in the first few weeks of that person’s tenure — back when nobody was paying close attention, because the new hire had just arrived and […]
What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form
Cyber insurance applications include a question that catches a lot of small business owners completely off guard: “Do you maintain immutable, air-gapped, or offline backups of your critical business data?” Carriers added that question to renewal forms for a very specific reason. Ransomware operators worked out that the fastest way to force a payout is […]
The “Zombie” SaaS Audit: Finding the 3 Apps Your Former Employees Still Access
Someone leaves the company on a Friday. By Monday, their laptop is back on the shelf and their email is disabled. Clean. Done. Right? Not quite. Nobody checked the project management tool they signed up for in Q3. Or the cloud storage folder they shared with a contractor. Or the CRM access they’ve had since […]
The “Legacy Debt” Audit: Identifying the 3 Oldest Risks in Your Server Room
You know the one. Said with a half-laugh and a slightly nervous look, it refers to that old box in the corner — the one that “still works,” runs something important, and has survived so many patches and workarounds that nobody really wants to go near it anymore. That’s legacy debt. Not just “old tech.” […]
Stop the Bleeding: How Revoking Admin Rights Eliminates Support Tickets
The most time-consuming ticket in your IT queue is rarely a hardware failure. It’s usually a PC infection that started when a user installed something they shouldn’t have, or a broken configuration left behind after someone changed a setting IT can’t trace. Local administrator rights—ability to install software, modify system settings, override security controls—are handed […]
The “Backup Exit” Strategy: Can You Move Your Data Without the Vendor’s Help?
You know the feeling. You sign up for a new SaaS platform, and everything just works. The onboarding is smooth, the interface is clean, and you’re thinking — yeah, this is the one. Then, six months later, pricing changes. Or the feature you relied on disappears. Or you just find something better. And suddenly you […]
The “Insider Threat” You Overlooked: Proper Employee Offboarding
Imagine this. An employee leaves — maybe on good terms, maybe not. They hand back their laptop. You shake hands. Everyone moves on. But their login still works. Their email is still active. Their access to your CRM, cloud storage, accounting system, and project management tools hasn’t been removed. This isn’t a rare mistake. It’s […]
