EasyIT – Business IT Support in Columbus & Central Ohio

A mid-sized professional services firm renews its vendor risk questionnaire every year. Every vendor on the list checks the boxes: SOC 2 report on file, encryption in place, a named security contact. The audit trail looks clean. Then a scheduling vendor with access to client calendars gets compromised, and the firm spends three weeks explaining to clients why a tool nobody th...

At 7:42 a.m., an office manager at a 30-person accounting firm opens her email to find a message from IT support she doesn’t recognize, sent from an account that looks almost right. By 9:15, half the shared drive is encrypted and a ransom note has replaced the firm’s client intake spreadsheet. Nobody in the building knows who is supposed to make the first call, what systems c...

An employee spends three years in accounts payable, then moves into a supervisor role in operations. Nobody ever revokes her ability to approve vendor payments. Two years later, an internal audit finds $180,000 routed to a vendor that doesn’t exist. She wasn’t hired to commit fraud. She simply never lost the access that made it possible.

This is access creep, sometimes...

Back Tap is one of those hidden iPhone features that, once you discover it, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. This accessibility feature, introduced in iOS 14, lets you perform various actions by tapping the back of your iPhone. Let’s dive into how this clever feature works and how you can make the most of it.