Your credentials can be phished, period. If you think you’re above being phished, you’re wrong. We all have weak moments and the criminals are really good at praying on our whims and emotions. Trust me, you can be phished. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible to protect your […]
Go West IT just completed our second annual SOC 2, Type 2 audit. This is an expensive and time consuming process and it absolutely makes us better every single year. SOC stands for Service Organization Controls and a Type 2 audit tests our use of and adherence to a defined set of controls over the […]
Your business is vulnerable to cybercriminals, period. So, workforce security should be top of mind for you and your business. Workforce security matters The truth is that no business is fully “secure”. Rather, businesses assume various amounts of acceptable risk. Your responsibility is to figure out where your organization lies on the workforce security spectrum, […]
Go West is providing this security alert as a cautionary measure for users with a consumer grade router or network attached storage device at their home or small business. Due to a recent malware attack known as VPNFilter, the FBI and US-CERT are encouraging users with home devices from Linksys, MikroTik, NetGear, TP-Link and QNAP […]
Go West IT is celebrating eight years in business this week. We started with five employees and a handful of great customers. Eight years later our team has grown to 27 team members and we are searching for the 28th. Our customer base has grown into the hundreds and we still work with most of […]
I recall a time when IT professionals adopted the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” approach to patching. To be sure, there was a time when patching firmware and software might have introduced more problems. That time is long gone. Aggressive patching is the new normal. Gone too are the days when a diligent […]
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Please Implement Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365, Please!
Your credentials can be phished, period. If you think you’re above being phished, you’re wrong. We all have weak moments and the criminals are really good at praying on our whims and emotions. Trust me, you can be phished. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible to protect your […]
SOC Audits Drive Improvement
Go West IT just completed our second annual SOC 2, Type 2 audit. This is an expensive and time consuming process and it absolutely makes us better every single year. SOC stands for Service Organization Controls and a Type 2 audit tests our use of and adherence to a defined set of controls over the […]
Mitigating Cyber Risk – Top Ten Tasks
Your business is vulnerable to cybercriminals, period. So, workforce security should be top of mind for you and your business. Workforce security matters The truth is that no business is fully “secure”. Rather, businesses assume various amounts of acceptable risk. Your responsibility is to figure out where your organization lies on the workforce security spectrum, […]
Consumer Grade Router Malware
Go West is providing this security alert as a cautionary measure for users with a consumer grade router or network attached storage device at their home or small business. Due to a recent malware attack known as VPNFilter, the FBI and US-CERT are encouraging users with home devices from Linksys, MikroTik, NetGear, TP-Link and QNAP […]
Happy Birthday Go West!
Go West IT is celebrating eight years in business this week. We started with five employees and a handful of great customers. Eight years later our team has grown to 27 team members and we are searching for the 28th. Our customer base has grown into the hundreds and we still work with most of […]
Aggressive Patching is the New Normal
I recall a time when IT professionals adopted the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” approach to patching. To be sure, there was a time when patching firmware and software might have introduced more problems. That time is long gone. Aggressive patching is the new normal. Gone too are the days when a diligent […]