ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Providers are pushing us to two-factor authentication (2FA). Every day, I get a prompt to enroll in two-factor, use two-factor instead of a password, or even upgrade to a passkey. Just the other day, I saw that Facebook is mandating passkeys for me. Don’t panic. It doesn’t appear that this […]

ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley Years ago, my first iPhone-to-iPhone migration was flawless. I did a full encrypted backup to a hard drive on my personal computer, tethered the new phone to the computer, and performed a restore to the new phone. All applications came across, along with all the saved passwords. All settings and […]

ISSUE 23.35.2 • 2026-09-03 By Susan Bradley Clouds can break, and previews are betas. With the move to the cloud, too often we inadvertently become beta testers. Just the other day, Microsoft 365 had authentication issues and was down for some users for most of the day. Microsoft kept us informed on the admin console […]

ISSUE 23.35.1 • 2026-09-01 By Susan Bradley Defer the Passkeys mandate for 365. Today, Microsoft begins its official effort to move Microsoft 365 customers from traditional authentication to what it calls “phishing-resistant” methods. This means Windows Hello, passkeys, or similar multifactor authentication (MFA) methods that are more secure. For consumers using 365, this will probably […]