The past couple of years have been difficult for just about everyone. Business owners and entrepreneurs have had to adapt and evolve to survive in an ever-changing climate. There’s no telling when or even if things will go back to what we once thought was “normal.

If you installed it, you must update it!

There are thousands of hackers who get up every morning with one goal in mind: to find a new vulnerability in a commonly installed software (like Adobe, QuickTime, etc.) to access your computer.

Microsoft Edge is Microsoft’s web browser. It is the predecessor to Internet Explorer. If you’ve written off Edge before, perhaps due to past trauma with Internet Explorer, consider giving Edge a try now! You may have heard it is based off the same code as Google Chrome’s browser, so it offers similar performance and works with all the same extensions.

Similar to Focus Assistant in Windows, the Freedom app will help ignore all of those distractions so you can be more productive.

Freedom works across multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, Android, iOS or Chrome). Freedom users report gaining an average of 2.5 hours of productive time each day, which adds up to 10M hours in the past year! Incredible!

How it works is that you select your devices (there is a charge to sync across multiple devices), then choose the sites and apps you need to get control of (think anything social media, shopping, or gaming that keeps bringing you back!), then set a schedule.

The holiday season just passed so that means many of us have new technology and devices such as phones that we are eager to set up. It is important to remember to transfer everything over such as your MFA apps so that you can still get into your accounts that require MFA. For the Microsoft Authenticator app, the process is very easy.

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As the new year begins, millions of people will be traveling. If you are among the many, here are some tips to help keep you cyber savvy and safe.

Mobile Devices

Bring as few devices as you can. The fewer devices you bring while traveling, the fewer devices that can be lost or stolen.

Campfires are an American camping tradition that brings people together to talk, relax or even cook. But the main problem with campfires is the smoke. It gets in your face, hair and clothes – and can ruin an otherwise relaxing evening. For this reason, BioLite created the FirePit+. This is the upgraded model of their classic FirePit and creates hyper-efficient flames by using patented airflow technology that can erase smoke.