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The bigger your business’ workforce, the bigger your overall digital footprint… and the bigger a task it becomes to properly manage who has access to what. Make no mistake, this task is a critical one to complete for the sake of your security and, ultimately, your reputation and success.

Let’s go over how this situation arises and discuss how to avoid it through identity governance.

The workplace is a strange beast. You’re taking a group of people with wildly different personalities, throwing them together for 40+ hours a week, and asking them to act like a cohesive unit. It’s a mix of professional deadlines and how about those Mets? water-cooler talk.

Whether your office is a suite downtown or a series of icons on a taskbar, that blend of personal and professional is healthy. We’re social creatures, after all… but when those two worlds bleed into each other without any rules, things get messy—and I’m not just talking about hurt feelings. I’m talking about security risks that could cost you $15,000 (or much, much more).

Can you say with absolute certainty that your business could survive a total server failure tomorrow morning? If the answer is no, then you have work to do getting your data backup systems into a better place. Most small businesses believe that having a backup running is the same as their data being safe, but that’s simply untrue. Having a backup is half the battle; making sure the backup works is another story.

Typically, when we make a mistake in a word processor, we just hold down the Backspace key until you get rid of the error, but when you consider all the times you have to hold down the key for longer than five seconds, that time adds up. To bypass this inefficiency entirely, you can use a little tool called “Fast Delete.” Here’s how it’s done.

On March 23, 2026 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expanded their banned list of hardware to include all consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers produced outside the United States. This designation identifies such equipment as a threat to national security. Under this new regulatory framework, the import, sale, and use of most existing router models are prohibited because a device is classified as foreign-made if any significant portion of its design, component manufacturing, or assembly occurs outside of domestic borders.