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TechBento considers the COVID-19 threat as a high-risk event with severe disruptions to systems, business operations, and financials.  We anticipate heavy influx of ill-prepared organizations seeking last-minute guidance on continuity planning, remote access, requests for additional capabilities, hardware purchases, communication tools.  As a result we have activated our Disaster Recovery & Response plan for large-scale cybersecurity [...]

Monitoring employee activity on macOS is hard.  One of the most popular players in this space is Veriato with a close second of Ekran. Verioto is the owner of Cerebral and Vision, some of which was once known as SpectorSoft 360.  There are several other on-premise and cloud hosted solutions out there, and most do not [...]

Majority of us continue to make bad choices with credential hygiene.  The formula for protecting credentials is fairly simple: unique passwords stored securely and multi-factor authentication.  Implementing that formula requires little more than the willingness to be inconvenienced slightly and a company policy that demands nothing less than "use unique passwords on every system and always [...]

The Apple macOS security and privacy features make remote management tough.  Apple's macOS Sierra introduced new security features that simplify apps from the App Store, but complicate everything else.  This spells trouble for applications that need a lot of access, such as antivirus.  The reason they are complicated is quite simple: these applications expect lots of [...]

Once in a blue moon we have a business owner dismiss security risk based on claiming they are simply not interesting enough, or not valuable enough, to be targeted by malicious actors.  They see themselves as isolated, perhaps somewhat like ships at sea.  Well, even ships at sea are targeted and the recommendations from the United [...]

Domain Name Servers (DNS) are the Internet’s equivalent of a phone book. They maintain a directory of domain names and translate them to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. This is necessary because although domain names are easy for people to remember, computers or machines access websites based on IP addresses. TechBento DNS brings together cyber threat intelligence [...]

Our macOS management agent offers two key features that were hugely important in November. The first, the ability to push updates and commands on the fly. We patched your systems for the macOS Root Vulnerability behind the scenes as soon as the information became public. The second feature is our expansion of the Self-Service application [...]