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How many attacks your server fends off while you sleep

One machine fended off nearly 3,000 RDP break-in attempts in 2.5 days. The live numbers on why 'all green' lies — and how to defend an open port.

monitoring security
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Always on watch: what round-the-clock monitoring is — and what it isn't

How automation catches a failure in minutes, when an on-call engineer steps in, and why the background noise of scanners is quiet work, not a reason to panic.

monitoring security incident response
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A password manager for your business: why a shared spreadsheet isn't a system

Why browser and spreadsheet passwords are a security hole, and what a proper team password manager looks like when we're responsible for your secrets.

security backups
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How backups work when we're the ones responsible for them

Encryption with the open age standard, generational rotation ('grandfather-father-son'), two independent off-site clouds, and regular restore testing — how we build backups when we're the ones responsible for them.

security incident response backups
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