Thoughts From The Deck

Dangers from Working From Home

While you're enjoying the 4th of July holiday, please remember to keep your guard up. Historically, some of the biggest time periods for ransomware attacks occurred during long holiday weekends. If you are working from home at any time and ...

What You Need to Know About Bank Fraud

Today, I'm going to share the shocking truth about bank fraud with you. Did you know that your company bank account simply doesn't have the same protections as a personal bank account when it comes to fraud? If a hacker ...

Why Having Anti Virus Is Not Enough

It's unfortunate that many business owners seem to think that if they have anti-virus on their company computers, they're safe from hackers, here's the truth. You're never 100% safe from hackers. And with antivirus alone, you're just a sitting duck. ...

Do Not Store Passwords In The Browser

I'm John Hill, CEO for TechSage Solutions, back on the strategic planning deck again. Recently, when I've talked with business leaders about the importance of using a password vault to store passwords, the response I've received concerns me just a ...

Memorial Day Message From Thoughts From The Deck

How to Spot a Phishing Email

John Hill, CEO for TechSage Solutions here again on the Strategic Deck. A phishing email is a bogus email that's carefully designed to look exactly like a legitimate request. How can I spot a phishing email since they all look ...

Has Your Email Been Hacked?

I'm John Hill, CEO of TechSage Solutions, back on the strategic planning deck again. Has your email been hacked? How do you know if someone's illegally accessing your email? How do you know if you're a victim or not? A ...

Erase Your Private Data From the Internet

Hi, everyone. I'm John Hill, CEO of TechSage Solutions. Back on the strategic planning deck again. The temperature got up to 101 degrees today. So I'm really happy that it's dropped to a comfortable 94 degrees. Now, while I'm recording ...

Complex Passwords

I'm John Hill, CEO of Tech Solutions. Back on the strategic planning deck again. If you're like me, and I really suspect you are, it's painful. And you hate trying to remember all those passwords for all those accounts that ...

Why is Zero Trust Important

I'm John Hill, CEO for TechSage Solutions. Back on the strategic planning deck again. Some of you, hopefully many of you have been hearing about something called Zero Trust. It's becoming the security model of choice by many cybersecurity experts. ...