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We are one of the first Managed Service Providers in Southern California to have received this certification, and we are incredibly proud of all the hard work and effort that went into hardening our cybersecurity posture! The CIS 20 Critical Security Controls and Benchmarks are global industry best practices endorsed by leading IT security vendors, governing bodies, laws, and regulations. SSAE 19 Cybersecurity Certification reports are the benchmark compliance report for MSPs and other organizations impacted by cybersecurity compliance and regulations, including CCPA, HIPAA, PCI, and SOX. TechMD follows the CIS 20 Controls in order to quickly and reliably establish the protections required to prevent the most common cyberattacks and safeguard our clients’ information.

How to Get Started with Power BI On today’s Tech Talk, we’ll be discussing business intelligence (or BI for short), which is a process for discovering trends or patterns in your data and then presenting them in a visually-engaging way. Implementing BI used to be a heavy lift, but tools like Microsoft’s Power BI have done away with the need for expert coding skills, and the process is now a lot simpler than most expect. #5 Ask Questions of Your Data Power BI gives you the ability to ask questions of your data by typing into a query, similar to a Google search. Here are a few examples of how we use data to provide the best IT experience possible: Hopefully now you have a better idea of what business intelligence is capable of, why your organization might want to use it, and how to get started with Power BI.

Microsoft has announced that Hafnium, a Chinese-backed cybercriminal organization, has been taking advantage of four zero-day exploits to attack on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers. We strongly recommend that any organizations with on-premises Exchange servers, including hybrid Office 365 setups, should apply Microsoft’s security updates immediately. To ensure your organization is protected from data breaches, your IT team will need to apply the security updates above and follow Microsoft’s guidelines to secure your Exchange server(s). Again, it is vital that this patch is applied to any affected servers as soon as possible, even for organizations that have shifted email infrastructure to Office 365 but retain any on-premises Exchange servers.

* Kevin Holmes is the Audit and Assurance Practice Leader at Martini Akpovi Partners and has extensive experience in internal controls consulting. He holds the AICPA Internal Control Certification in the COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework. * Eric Rockwell has more than 17 years of leadership experience helping clients optimize their IT environment while aligning with business goals. A member of the Center for Internet Security, Eric is an expert in risk management, incident response, infrastructure protection, business continuity and disaster recovery.