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How to find a hidden email rule in your mailbox
Attackers can use a normal email rule to hide or forward messages. How to check your rules, what looks unusual and what to do if you find one you don't recognise.
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Plain guidance on security, Microsoft 365 and everyday IT for law firms, medical centres, accounting practices and other Sydney businesses.
Written by CRYPTON, who look after IT and cybersecurity for Sydney businesses.
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A simple check before anyone in your firm acts on changed bank details.
Security
Changed bank details: a payment check for law firms
How a law firm can verify changed payment instructions, give clients a clear callback rule and separate payment approval from IT support.
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Security
How email fraud steals a settlement payment
How payment redirection fraud can reach a property settlement, from one stolen password to a fake change of bank details, and four steps a law firm can take.
Outage planning
Can your clinic find its outage plan when systems are down?
A practical discussion for clinic managers: find the plan, confirm provider contacts and check how reception and the clinical lead would respond to an IT outage.
Security
Check who can open your accounting practice's client files
Before requesting tax documents, check the upload path, recipient permissions and staff access so clients can send files without exposing them to the wrong people.
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Finance Agent: what finance teams should know
What finance teams and accounting practices should know about Microsoft's Finance Agent, where it can help, and what to confirm before connecting it to business data.
Training and rollouts
Plan the training before your next technology rollout
Why useful technology still fails when people are not shown how it fits their work, and what to put in place before the next rollout.
Security
Microsoft 365 security checks for law firms
A concise guide to the Microsoft 365 security checks that help a law firm protect client information and keep working when something goes wrong.
Security
Using NIST CSF 2.0 to decide what to check first
A plain-language introduction to the six functions in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and how a growing business can use them to decide what to check first.
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