Contingency planning is crucial for accounting and bookkeeping firms to maintain data security, service continuity, and regulatory compliance. This blog covers key strategies, such as documenting workflows, using password managers, ensuring client data backups, and preparing your team for unexpected disruptions. Implementing these steps ensures your business runs smoothly and your clients are well-supported during any unforeseen circumstances.

Cyber threats lurk where we least expect. Uncover your security blind spots and safeguard what matters most.

Discover the essential security elements to look for in cloud applications: bank-level encryption, DDoS prevention, data storage locations, internal security policies, login/logout options, SOC2 compliance, and user permissions. Protect your business and client data by ensuring these key features are in place.

Many businesses have converted their apps and software to cloud-based ones, and robust data protection measures are more critical than ever. Whether you're an accountant, bookkeeper, or business owner, these strategies will help you confidently navigate the complexities of cloud security.

There is simply nothing that is 100% security-proof. The baddies are constantly upping their nefarity; you will be compromised sooner or later. Nothing is foolproof, but you need not be a fool about how you manage your passwords.

Create a safe word - or whatever you want to call it - passphrase, secret code, secret word, security phrase…

Do it right now.

In September, amidst the joy of celebrating a wedding in Ireland, my husband and I encountered a hiccup: his phone was stolen. As we navigated through the aftermath, we gleaned valuable insights that I'd like to share with you to safeguard your devices and data. Here are six key lessons learned from our stolen phone adventure.

This is part three in a three-part series, I talked about the misconceptions of email campaigns that can lead to ineffective strategies or missed opportunities.

Part One focused on using email campaigns, Part Two looked at deliverability, and Part Three is about maintaining good email campaign health.

Securing your social media accounts is not just for your benefit; it’s for the benefit of everyone around you. Tight security allows you to feel comfortable joining all the fantastic Groups that give so much joy to our lives, knowing you have done your darndest to safeguard others in them.

In a three-part series, I will run through several misconceptions about email campaigns that can lead to ineffective strategies or missed opportunities. Part One focused on using email campaigns, today - Part Two - looks at deliverability, and Part Three will be about maintaining good email campaign health.

In a three-part series, I will run through several misconceptions about email campaigns that can lead to ineffective strategies or missed opportunities. Today in Part One, we focus on using email campaigns.

What the what is DDoS!? And why you should care.

A DDoS attack is like an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the digital highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination.

Let’s wade through what are the systems you can implement right now. And to engage your team and clients in the processes, ensure they understand the “why” of your systems.

I recently realized that not everyone knows about app-generated, copy/paste 2FA back up codes.

I was posting about sharing 2FA codes with team members in my FBGroup and an inquiry came up asking what these wee bits of magical security are (the inquirer didn’t call them “wee bits of magical security”, that’s all me). I couldn’t find a good article to reply with about them that wasn’t app-specific.

So I decided a quick overview - right here, right now - was in order.

"If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?"- Joe Nameth

I have chatted before about back-ups, data location redundancy and internet security. Some of you may have listened to me go on about the need to adopt a cloud security policy and communicating it - some of you have done my workshop on it.

I can’t stress enough the importance of backing up your cloud data and implementing 3 location redundancy

“Redundancy for the sake of redundancy was my salvation.”

In 2005 my business was in a building that suffered a fire, and it burned to the ground.

I was already on my way to internet-based file management but more importantly, I was practicing 3 location data redundancy.

It was my saving grace for having my business up and running the next day, and client files intact.