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Discover the unparalleled expertise of 24uNet in providing small business IT support tailored to your unique needs. Our services offer comprehensive solutions, from managed IT services to in-depth assessments, ensuring your business operates securely and efficiently. Designed for small businesses, our IT support is both proactive and responsive, addressing challenges before they arise and supporting growth. Let 24uNet be your trusted partner in navigating the complexities of modern IT. Experience the difference today!
File Server Filling Up? Review Your Options
Before buying a bigger file server, review active files, cloud tiering and backup. See how 24uNet plans and manages Azure file services.
Dane Gray
4 days ago4 min read
ShareFile File Overwritten? Plan a Separate Backup
Which copy would you restore after a ShareFile file is overwritten? Learn how 24uNet manages a separate backup for existing clients.
Dane Gray
4 days ago3 min read
ShareFile vs SharePoint for Client Portals: An Honest Guide for RIAs and Wealth Managers
Short answer: ShareFile is not automatically more secure than SharePoint. Both can encrypt data and support multifactor sign-in. The real difference is the job. A purpose-built client portal is designed for per-client document exchange with expiring, recipient-specific access. SharePoint and OneDrive are built for internal collaboration and are excellent when Microsoft identity controls are locked down. For most advisors: portal for client exchange, locked-down SharePoint for
Dane Gray
7 days ago6 min read
What Microsoft 365 Copilot Can See: Client Data Guide for RIAs and Law Offices
Short answer: Microsoft 365 Copilot can only see what the signed-in person already has permission to open. It does not break your permissions — it exposes them. Years of loose SharePoint and OneDrive sharing become instant answers, so client statements, estate documents, or matter files can show up for a coworker who should never have seen them. Clean up sharing first, then turn Copilot on. What Copilot can see in your Microsoft 365 tenant Microsoft 365 Copilot works inside t
Dane Gray
7 days ago6 min read
What the SEC's FY2027 Exam Priorities Mean for Your RIA's Cybersecurity
Short answer: In its FY2027 examination priorities (released October 23, 2026), the SEC's Division of Examinations said it will check whether advisers can actually run their amended Regulation S-P incident response program, notify clients, and oversee service providers. It also named Regulation S-ID account takeover controls and AI-driven phishing and deepfakes as focus areas. Advisers should have written procedures, evidence they were tested, and current vendor terms ready b
Dane Gray
Nov 46 min read
QR Code Phishing: How to Spot and Stop "Quishing" at Your Small Business
Short answer: QR code phishing, or "quishing," hides a malicious link inside a QR code so staff scan it with their phone, where email filters and company security tools often can't see it. The fix is a mix of training, a simple rule about scanning codes from email, phishing-resistant sign-in, and alerts on unusual logins. What is QR code phishing? Quishing is a phishing attack that uses a QR code instead of a clickable link. The code usually appears in an email or PDF that lo
Dane Gray
Nov 44 min read
Cyber Insurance Requirements for Texas Small Businesses
A few years ago, a cyber insurance application was a page of yes-or-no questions. Today it reads more like a security review. Carriers want to know how you sign in, how you back up, who watches for attacks and what you'd do on a bad day. Answer "no" to the wrong question and you may face a higher premium, a lower limit, an exclusion, or no offer at all. Answer "yes" when the real answer is "sort of," and a claim can be challenged later. This guide covers the controls insurers
Dane Gray
Nov 45 min read
Can We Get Rid of Our VPN? What Microsoft 365 Business Premium Already Includes
Many small offices still run a VPN so remote staff can reach files, a line-of-business app, or the server in the closet. VPNs work, but they're clunky, they're a common target, and once someone is connected they often can see far more than they need. Microsoft now offers a different approach called Global Secure Access. Part of it comes with Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Part of it doesn't. What is Microsoft Global Secure Access? It's a small app on each laptop or phone tha
Dane Gray
Nov 33 min read
Microsoft Is Ending Text-Message Sign-In Codes. Here's What Your Staff Will See.
If your team signs in to Microsoft 365 and gets a code by text message or a phone call, that is about to change. Microsoft has announced it will retire its own text and voice sign-in codes on February 1, 2027. After that, anyone who only uses those codes will have to set up a passkey before they can sign in. What exactly is changing? According to Microsoft's announcement: Passkeys are now the default sign-in method. Staff who use text or voice codes are already being prompted
Dane Gray
Nov 33 min read
A Holiday Scam Briefing for Your Staff
The holidays bring more packages, more year-end invoices, more people out of the office, and more rushed decisions. Scammers know it. This post is a short briefing you can read aloud at your next team huddle, forward as an email, or print for the break room. Why brief staff before the holidays? Most scams work because someone is busy and wants to be helpful. Around the holidays, everyone is both. A few minutes of plain talk now gives your team permission to slow down and chec
Dane Gray
Nov 33 min read
What Belongs in a Written Disaster Recovery Plan for a Texas Business
Every business says it has backups. Far fewer have a written plan that says what happens next: who makes the call, which systems come back first, where people work, and how you tell customers. When the power is out, the server won't boot or ransomware has locked the shared drive, nobody wants to be making that up on the spot. Texas adds its own reasons to write it down. Ice storms and grid emergencies, Gulf hurricanes that push heavy rain far inland, flash flooding and long s
Dane Gray
Nov 35 min read
Why Did That Remote Tool Come Back? How to Tell If Someone Else Enrolled Your Office PC
By Dane Gray Your IT provider removes a remote-support program that nobody asked for. Later that day, it's back. Same program, same computer. That isn't a glitch. Security researchers recently described attacks where a phishing email tricks someone into signing their work PC up to a device management account the attacker controls. Once that happens, the attacker can push software to the PC whenever they like, including remote-control tools. Remove the tool, and they simply se
Dane Gray
Nov 26 min read
Texas Data Breach Notification Law: What Small Businesses Need to Do, and When
By Dane Gray Nobody plans to have a data breach. But if a criminal gets into your email, your file server, or the laptop that went missing from a truck, Texas law starts a clock. Knowing how that clock works before you need it is one of the most useful things a business owner can do. This guide walks through what Texas law actually says, in plain language, and gives you a practical plan for the first hours after you discover a problem. This article is general information, not
Dane Gray
Nov 27 min read
Microsoft 365 Inbox-Rule Attacks: A Response Guide for Bryan–College Station Businesses
Most email break-ins don't look like break-ins. Nobody changes your password or locks you out. Instead, the attacker signs in quietly and adds a rule to your mailbox: move anything with "invoice," "payment" or "wire" to an obscure folder, mark it as read, or send a copy to an outside address. You keep working. They keep reading. For a Bryan–College Station business that bills customers, pays vendors, or handles deposits by email, that one rule is how a routine invoice turns i
Dane Gray
Nov 25 min read
Phishing Protection and Training for RIA Staff
Registered investment advisers hold exactly what attackers want: client money, account details and the trust to move both. That's why phishing aimed at RIAs and wealth management firms is so targeted. A fake custodian notice, a "client" asking to change wire instructions, or a login page that looks just like Microsoft 365 can all lead to stolen accounts and lost client funds. Good phishing protection for an RIA has two parts: technology that stops most bad messages before the
Dane Gray
Oct 303 min read
Business Backup Services for Denver and Boulder Firms
If your firm lost its files tomorrow, could you get them back, and how much work would stop while you tried? For most small businesses, the honest answer is "we think so." 24uNet helps firms across Denver, Boulder, Boulder County, Louisville, Lafayette, Superior, Broomfield and Longmont replace "we think so" with a backup plan that has been tested. What business backup actually needs to cover A backup is only useful if it covers everything you would need to keep working. For
Dane Gray
Oct 303 min read
Is Someone Quietly Forwarding Our Email? How to Check Microsoft 365 for Hidden Inbox Rules
How to check Microsoft 365 for hidden inbox rules and forwarding, what a bad rule looks like, and why a password reset alone won't remove it.
Dane Gray
Oct 284 min read
Someone Stole a Microsoft 365 Session: Why a Password Reset Isn't Enough
When an attacker steals a Microsoft 365 session, a password reset leaves their access in place. The cleanup order: sessions, devices, MFA methods, rules, apps.
Dane Gray
Oct 284 min read
Do Staff Phones Need the Latest Microsoft Authenticator?
Microsoft fixed a flaw in the Android Authenticator app (CVE-2026-80097). What it means, how to check the version, and why personal phones count too.
Dane Gray
Oct 283 min read
Year-End IT and Security Checklist for Small Firms: What to Finish Before January
What to finish before January: Windows Server 2016 end of support, the proof your cyber insurer asks for, an access review and a real restore test.
Dane Gray
Oct 286 min read
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