5 Christmas tips on protecting your IT 🎄

We've put together our first 5 simple tips to protect your IT. You can deploy most of them right now, at no extra cost. Never work under highly privileged accounts (administrator, global admin, etc.

1. Never work under highly privileged accounts (administrator, global admin, etc.) — meaning your usual day-to-day work. NEVER!
2. Passwords: use a different password for each service, complexity at least 9+ characters. Don't go crazy with frequent forced changes.
3. Where to keep passwords? Use a password manager.
4. Use multi-factor sign-in everywhere it's available. For anyone unsure what that is — it's similar to signing into your bank: an app or SMS.
5. Back up using the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies of the data, the backup on 2 storage locations, 1 copy off-site, and have backups that resist a ransomware attack.
6. Think hard about whether having RDP "exposed" to the internet is a good idea. The answer is unequivocal — it's a "big no".