Holiday Sweaters 2020

Last Thursday was Bryley’s Annual Sweater Day … check it out! [1 min. read]

David Byler

What Does the SolarWinds Breach Mean?

For some perspective on the massive hack I spoke with David Byler, a Bryley trusted security advisor, “… what’s scary about this versus say the Equifax breach or the Home Depot breach is that in those the target was the customer data for that specific company. Also Equifax and Home Depot are not known as tech companies. SolarWinds is a tech company supplying tech to help tech companies manage their tech. So for them to get breached feels like this extra big thing …” [7 min. read]

Poor password management

Grant the Right People Secure Access No Matter the Device

Seventy percent of hacking-related breaches are due to stolen or weak passwords. Passwords are no longer enough to keep your business from unauthorized access and malicious attacks. [3 min. read]

Carol and Cathy

Community Service Day

On October 23, 2020, Bryley volunteers (and sisters) Carol and Cathy joined the Corridor 9/495 Chamber of Commerce for their Annual Community Service Day on behalf of the Community Harvest Project [1 min. read]

Halloween Costume Day!

Last Friday (October 30th, 2020), the scary folks at Bryley were at it again; Kristin called for costumes, and our team delivered!

   

Michelle — Pigs in a blanket       Tom — Certified RV salesperson

   

Our Boss forgot to dress-up (again)            Carol B — Trick-or-treat witches

   

Cathy + Gavin — Bryley cheerleaders         Frank — Bounty Paper Towels spokesman

   

Kristin — Wonderful person                         Admin team (pictured) brought cheese-cake slices

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The Last Line of Defense

Cybercriminals have gotten through some of the world’s best defenses. They’re often after data, corrupting it, and locking it up for payment through ransomware. No security strategy is complete until it takes the last step of protecting data with quickly available, full, uncorrupted copies of everything your business depends on [6.5 min. read]

email Michelle

I wanted to drop a line …

Last month Bryley got an email about the work of Michelle Denio from a happy client [2.5 min. read]

Bryley Knowledge Base

Office 365 Had New Features Every Month in 2020!?!

Office 365 … er actually Microsoft 365 … keeps changing. Unlike when you could purchase licenses with three-year feature cycles, the Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) model with rolling updates means that every month we’re getting feature updates [6.5 min. read]

Brick wall

The wall comes tumbling down…

After 83 years, your brick courtyard walls might need some repair … [1 min. read]

Dark Web Coin

Dark Web Coin

The barrier to ransomware entry has become so low. Ransomware is now distributed on the dark web like any other Software as a Service (SAAS, e.g. Spotify, Netflix, Dropbox). And its pricing starts at about $20 for a basic-level ransomware attack. Type “RAAS” or “ransomware as a service” in a dark web search engine. You’ll get pages of results. Most people think of hackers as geniuses. That’s far from true any more.