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2023 is turning out to be major shift in cybersecurity. Businesses are increasingly turning to technology for digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence is bringing new, unintended risks, and cybercriminals continue to ramp up their cyber-attack efforts.

Your data is one of your most valuable business assets. Keeping it safe should be one of your main priorities.

According to Microsoft, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) prevents 99.9% of automated assaults on its platforms, websites, and online services. It also found that MFA wasn’t implemented by 99.9% of accounts that had been hacked.

Microsoft is planning to enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) directly in its Outlook app for many 365 business users.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) means you need at least two pieces of information to log in to a device or an app. Perhaps a password plus a fingerprint, and possibly an extra, single-use code sent to your phone.

Cyber criminals use increasingly sophisticated techniques to bypass security.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) adds extra layers of security to your business.

It means you need at least two pieces of information to log in to a device or an app. Perhaps a password plus a fingerprint, and possibly an extra, single-use code sent to your phone.

If productivity tools aren’t embedded properly within your business, tasks can actually end up taking longer than they should.

In our world of Managed IT Services, we have significant risk that we must mitigate and reduce. We have cybersecurity risks, as we are a high value target for hackers (why attack targets one at a time when you can target a Managed IT Provider and gain access to all of their clients?). We have business continuity risks.

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot on March 16th, 2023, its latest push to embed AI into its suite of productivity apps. It may feel like Microsoft is rushing to get AI into its various apps and systems, but they must try to keep up with Google's AI push.

Bot malware is a worrying new security risk. Malware bots steal whole user profiles – that’s a complete snapshot of your ID and settings.