Virus alert from Microsoft, blares from the pop-up window in your web browser. All you did was place an innocuous search for an item or some other research on your work computer. But now your screen is full of warnings such as: "A harmful virus has been detected on your computer" or some other such "suspicious activity." According to everything yo...
Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) helps organizations large and small to manage user identities and create secure access policies for corporate data. All of the Microsoft cloud-based services aimed at businesses rely on Azure AD for sign-in and other identity needs. If your organization has Office 365 Business or Enterprise, then you aut...
Many IT departments large and small increasingly must support a more diverse and geographically-dispersed workforce that works using any device. This presents a new challenge for both the small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and the large enterprises with traditional IT departments. How can you keep your employees' devices secure on the corporate netwo...
Cybersecurity is often considered an afterthought for many small and midsize businesses (SMBs), though I don't know why. Independent research from the Ponemon Institute says that it typically takes only four minutes for a hacker to get into a corporate network but over six months for the owners of that network to even detect an attack...
Amaxra consultants were recently targeted by a criminal hacker. Key members of our team, all of whom are daily users of the Microsoft Office 365 suite of applications and cloud services, received the following scam email: Everyone on the Amaxra executive team who received this scam email knew it was a phishing attempt for various business-relat...
At the end of July 2018, Microsoft announced the price for all on-premises licenses for Microsoft Office suites, would increase by ten percent in October 2018. For enterprise server products such as Microsoft Exchange Server for email, Skype for Business Server, and Microsoft SharePoint, the remote desktop per client access license (CAL) used to a...
Businesses that subscribe to the Office 365 cloud productivity suite just gained a nice boost in their cybersecurity posture—for free. Microsoft announced that they extended some of the enhanced anti-spoofing capabilities for emails sent and received through their cloud-based Exchange Online Protection (EOP) service. In the most basic of term...
It's undeniable that organizations get a competitive edge using Microsoft Office 365. However, it is also undeniable that some individuals in those organizations view Office as a complex suite of multiple apps—some of which they don't even use. In 2016 alone, Microsoft added 60 new features to Office 365, including new products such as Group...
An observation one of our consultants made about companies choosing between either Microsoft Office 365 or Google G-Suite is the lack of real-world comparison. Neither the entrepreneur at a startup nor the overworked staff at a small-to-midsized business (SMB) have the time and resources to install both Microsoft and Google cloud productivity solu...
By July 1, 2018, Microsoft will have blocked their first batch of users from embedding Adobe Flash, Adobe Shockwave, and even Microsoft Silverlight content inside Office 365 files. The policy change will directly affect information workers who use the Insert Object control in the cloud-powered Office 365 productivity suite to embed content using a...
It's unreal to think that only ten years ago most mid-to-large enterprise companies were still handing out BlackBerry smartphones to significant numbers of their workforces. But the key reason those companies liked the BlackBerry was its security and management capabilities outstripped all competitors. Although many Millennial workers cannot imagi...
Every successful business today is online. Unfortunately, this means that every successful business must deal with online criminals wanting to steal valuable business data stored in the cloud. From viruses to ransomware and phishing scams, the threats to your business are legion and it's vital to protect your internet-connected devices and data fr...
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