Tech Tips

23rd June 2020

Pro Tip: Exercise Caution with G Suite Marketplace Apps

G Suite Marketplace Apps are “applications that can be added to an entire domain or to individual G Suite accounts.” They integrate with the Admin console and make it easy to complete common tasks (mail merges, form publishing, password management, etc.) or connect to frequently used apps like Dropbox or Zoom. And, they have a…

14th May 2020

How to set up Threat Intelligence via Slack for Free

Are you finding it hard to keep up with new major cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could affect your environment? Unless cybersecurity is your full-time job, you’re probably not spending a lot of time wading through blog posts and listening to hours of podcasts just to keep up with every breaking story. Most of us really just…

20th April 2020

Pro Tip: Sending Secrets via Signal

How do you send a secret key or password to another team member? You can’t just hand someone a sticky note! That’s why we recommend downloading and using the Signal app. Signal has end-to-end encryption and has been vetted by some of the top security minds. We use Signal when sharing passwords, birthdates, files containing confidential materials and…

29th March 2020

G Suite Access Control Audit Tip

Here’s a G Suite tip that will save you lots of time figuring out who your administrators are. From the admin console go to Reports > Users > Account Activity. Admin Status will tell you who is a “Super Admin,” “Admin” or “None.” Hey Google, “Can you make this easier to find?”

24th February 2020

Why the Corp.com Sale Matters to You

The Corp.com website is being sold (likely price: $1.7 million). Why should you care? Because many companies use corp.com as their second level domain for their Active Directory. As explained in this helpful article, it means that, “[W]hoever controls corp.com can passively intercept private communications from hundreds of thousands of computers that end up being…

11th September 2019

How many organizations have access to my email?

Here’s a scenario: You are sending a confidential email to an employee at another company that’s based overseas. You need to share the information with the person at that company, but you don’t want the information to get out beyond that connection. How many organizations will have access to that email? Answer: More than you…

1st August 2018

Is your website about to go dark?

Encryption hasn’t always been a standard on the Internet – in earlier days, most webmasters simply used HTTP, instead of the HTTPS format. HTTP means no encryption for the website. So all the private information- names, addresses, passwords, that are collected can be “heard” by any one “listening in”. These days, many companies are moving…

31st January 2017

Mothers, don’t let your babies grow up to use the ‘admin’ username

There are many blog posts, articles, training materials and all sorts of content admonishing people to pick good passwords. But there is not nearly the same volume of content discussing good username selection. Administrators especially should be cognizant of good usernames to reduce the risk of an attack. Here at Fractional CISO we took a…