Archive for author: Matthew Hinge

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Microsoft

5 Microsoft 365 Settings Worth Checking in Your Tenant

Microsoft has tightened several default settings in Microsoft 365 over the past few years. Newer tenants get more protection out of the box than tenants set up before 2022 or so. The problem is that legacy conf...

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IT Management

What Immutable Backup Means on Your Cyber Insurance Form

Cyber insurance applications include a question that catches a lot of small business owners off guard: “Do you maintain immutable, air-gapped, or offline backups of your critical business data?”Carriers added t...

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Cybersecurity

Why Human Habits Are Your Biggest Security Risk

Most cyberattacks do not start with a sophisticated intrusion. They start with a click on a personal email, a reused password, or a file uploaded to a familiar cloud service because the approved option felt slo...

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New Technology

What is Passkey Migration and How Can It Help Your Team Eliminate Passwords?

Your team locks everything down with passwords. Some are strong, some are not, and most have been reused somewhere over the years. Every month, IT fields reset requests. Every year, the same breach reports list...

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IT Management

The “Zombie” SaaS Audit: Finding the 3 Apps Your Former Employees Still Access

Someone leaves the company on a Friday. By Monday, their email account is disabled, and their laptop is back in the pile.What nobody checks is their login to the project management tool they signed up for in Q3...

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IT Management

Stop the Bleeding: How Revoking Admin Rights Eliminates Support Tickets

The most time-consuming ticket in your queue is rarely a hardware failure. It’s the PC infection that started when a user installed something they shouldn’t have been able to. Or it’s the broken configuration l...

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Cybersecurity

Is Your Invoice a Deepfake? Securing Your Accounts Payable Process Against Voice and Email Cloning

It’s a statistic that sends a shiver down the backs of SME owners, managers and employees.  According to the FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, business email compromise (BEC) cost US businesses ...

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Cybersecurity

Adversary-in-the-Middle Attacks: How Phishing Sites Steal Your Active Login

You click a link, sign in, approve the MFA prompt, and get on with your day. Completely unaware that someone else just logged into your account at the same moment.That scenario surprises many businesses, partic...

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Cybersecurity

Australia’s New Smart Device Cybersecurity Rules 2026: What Businesses Need to Know

Australia’s new smart device cybersecurity rules started on 4 March 2026. They set minimum security standards for many connected consumer devices, including products such as smart cameras, smart TVs, smart watc...

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Cybersecurity

The “Session Cookie” Hijack: Why MFA Can’t Always Save You

MFA is a strong front-door lock. But it’s not the only thing that decides whether someone can get in.After you sign in, your browser keeps you logged in using a session token (often stored as a cookie). It’s th...