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New Study Reveals Top Concerns for Microsoft Platform Management

Managing Microsoft environments can be complex and time-consuming, but they provide critical services to maintain business continuity and allow access to employees to keep them productive. Whether on-premises Active Directory, hybrid, or Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), IT executives must balance efficiency while maintaining Active Directory security, such as managing

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NSA Discovers New Critical Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

Microsoft released three new patches for its Exchange Server software on Tuesday after the National Security Agency (NSA) alerted the company to a fresh batch of critical vulnerabilities. All discovered flaws, four in total, lead to remote code execution on a vulnerable machine. “We urge all owners and operators of

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A New Cayosoft.com

We’re excited to announce the new Cayosoft.com! This new and improved site was a true team effort by many at Cayosoft. After seven years it was time to retire our old site and build a new one with a clear goal in mind – make it easy for any visitor, from new-to-the-site to long-time Cayosoft customer, to find the information they need.   You’ll notice we’ve not only given our site a clean, new

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Disgruntled IT Contractor in Jail | Protect Against Insider Threats

Large-scale internal security breaches are becoming increasingly more popular, costing companies millions of dollars each year. The sum of this loss comes from the financial damages of the breach itself and, in some cases more importantly, damage to the company’s reputation, translating to big dollars off the company’s bottom line.

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2020: A Year in Review

  Wow, 2020 — A year to remember, to say the least!   Despite a global pandemic, so much was accomplished at Cayosoft and across the tech community.  People adjusted to a “new normal” as we flocked to Microsoft Teams, which now has more than 115 million daily active users.   And we know that pushed IT Teams

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The #1 Way to Prevent Insider Threats

Protecting Your Critical Assets with Insider Threat Prevention Data Breaches Happen Data security is nothing new. Where there is sensitive information, there are those who seek to access, steal, and misuse it, mostly for financial gain. The unfortunate truth about malicious activities is that a third of all data breaches

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Security Budgets During COVID-19 – A New Infographic

When lockdown protocols kicked in due to COVID-19’s rapid spread all around the world, teams across many industries migrated to a work-from-home normal. However, with remote work comes new security risks—like employees accessing sensitive company assets through personal devices and home wifi. How have security budgets changed as a result

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Real-World Use Case: Save Time, Ensure Control in Hybrid Microsoft  

  At Citrus Health Network, a health center organization, the nature of the business means many accounts must be provisioned and deprovisioned every month. Yet with 1200 employees, the company has only four people on the infrastructure team, making efficiency critical. It would require a solution that offers secure delegation.    Secure delegation

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Retire Skype for Business Admin Center to Start on Dec 1, 2020

  Microsoft will be retiring the Skype for Business admin center starting on December 1st, 2020. Instead of Skype admin center, Microsoft recommends the utilization of Teams admin center which is where they will continue to invest development resources. Key Points: Major: Retirement Timing: December 01, 2020 Action: Transition to

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Cayosoft Guardian v1.4 Now Available!

Cayosoft  today  introduced  the latest  version of  Cayosoft Guardian  to  securely recover and protect Azure Active Directory (AD) and hybrid AD  identities and  data.      Highlights of this latest release include:  Protection for Azure AD Native Admin Units  Protect Azure AD Administrative Units with Cayosoft Guardian. Quickly isolate and rollback malicious or mistaken changes

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What’s the difference between Microsoft user-based MFA and Azure MFA?

  If your business relies on cloud computing services, it’s essential that you set security defaults that include multi–factor authentication (MFA) to protect your resources. Protecting your user accounts during a sign in event is vital for securing accounts that require privileged access to data and other resources in the cloud. MFA has

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