We recently received this notice from Microsoft:

“Microsoft has observed a recent increase in spamming activity among some customers using Azure subscriptions obtained via their CSP partners. This activity is outside of what is permitted under the terms of use for Microsoft Azure services.

Examples of these violations of Microsoft’s acceptable use policy can include:

• Spamming
• Hacking
• Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
• Cryptocurrency mining
• Malware distribution
• Resale of pirated subscriptions

In cases where Microsoft observes this type of activity, we may take action to deactivate customer subscriptions without prior notice.”

This is definitely the time to make sure that your company has the following safeguards in place:

• Antivirus with Enhanced Detection & Response – to catch the bad guys on the internal network
• Multi-factor Authentication on all online accounts – make the hackers job harder with more secure connections
• Password Manager – to stop using the same password for all sites (changing on character is not enough)
• Enhanced Email Security – to keep the bad guys from pretending to be your company and stop the spam before it gets out
• SaaS Backups – to prevent deletion of emails, contacts, calendar items, and shared online storage 

Every company is entitled to a free security check-up, so contact us to schedule yours today.