Why Use Strong Passwords and Password Managers

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Imagine a single weak password costing your business a fortune in downtime and recovery. Can you afford that risk? This article dives into how strong passwords—unique, complex, and regularly updated—paired with top-tier password managers can bolster your defenses, streamline operations, and keep you compliant.

Don’t Save Passwords in a Text Doc or Spreadsheet

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Saving passwords in a plain text file or spreadsheet exposes every account you own to immediate compromise, making identity theft and financial loss almost unavoidable. This guide reveals the hidden dangers of unencrypted password storage, explains how to craft and keep strong, unique credentials, and details proven methods for migrating to secure systems. You’ll explore the risks of plain text storage, learn best practices for password creation and multifactor protection, compare leading encrypted vaults, follow a step-by-step migration plan, and understand continuous monitoring and compliance essentials to keep your digital life safe.

How Can Clear Sailing IT Solutions Help My St. Augustine Business?

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St. Augustine enterprises face increasing cyber security risks, from ransomware attempts to downtime that halts operations. Clear Sailing IT Solutions provides tailored IT solutions and proactive threat detection to safeguard local businesses, ensuring uninterrupted service and data integrity.

What is a Managed Service Provider (MSP) ?

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A Managed Service Provider (MSP) delivers proactive, outsourced management of a company’s IT infrastructure and end-user systems to prevent downtime, bolster security, and ensure predictable costs. By shifting routine tasks like network monitoring, cybersecurity, and data backup to an MSP, organizations gain expert support without the unpredictability and resource drain of in-house teams.

Is it Time to Replace Your Hardware

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Outdated computer hardware can become the hidden bottleneck in your operations, slowing workflows, exposing security gaps, and inflating long-term costs. In this guide, you will learn the key signs that your IT assets need replacement, the tangible benefits of an upgrade, optimal refresh cycles for desktops, laptops, servers and network devices, step-by-step planning strategies, secure disposal practices, ROI and TCO calculations, and the risks of delaying a refresh. Along the way, discover how Clear Sailing IT Solutions provides proactive managed IT services and lifecycle management to help SMBs stay efficient, secure, and cost-effective.

Email Deliverability, keeping your emails from going to your clients junk folder

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Over 10 percent of legitimate emails land in the junk folder, undermining open rates and customer engagement. This guide delivers proven Email Deliverability strategies that ensure your messages bypass spam filters and secure a spot in your clients’ inbox. You will learn how to authenticate your domain with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, build a positive sender reputation, maintain list hygiene, troubleshoot deliverability issues, adopt AI-driven tactics and BIMI branding, and navigate GDPR and CAN-SPAM compliance. By mastering these seven core areas—Deliverability Fundamentals, Authentication Protocols, Sender Reputation, List Hygiene, Troubleshooting, Advanced Trends, and Regulatory Compliance—you will transform your email campaigns into reliable, high-impact communications.

Cover Your Security Bases with These Four Best Practices

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Over 25 percent of data breaches target small businesses, and the impact can be huge. To protect your business, you need the right technology and smart strategies. In today’s blog, we go through some key steps to help safeguard your business from digital threats.

How to Protect Yourself By Protecting Your Personal Data

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Modern wisdom states that if you’re not paying for a product, you’re the product.

For all the good the Internet is capable of doing, it is equally capable of being extremely harmful… especially when data is involved. Websites and social media platforms collect data from their users and track their movements across the Internet, sell it to advertisers, and more recently, use it to train AI.

Let’s go over what you can—and arguably should—do to limit these platforms’ ability to do so.

Four Signs You Have a Phishing Attack on Your Hands

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There’s never been a more dangerous time to run a business. Okay, maybe that’s not necessarily true, but hear me out. With digital technology taking on a greater importance for businesses than ever before, companies have to contend with countless threats—including the ever-popular phishing scams—regardless of their geographical location.

Tip: 4 Windows 11 Desktop Tricks to Master Your Workstation

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Windows 11 features a robust desktop environment with a lot of neat tricks and customizations to work more effectively. Controlling your Windows desktop experience can enhance productivity and streamline the way you interact with your computer. In today’s blog, we give you four tips to help you customize and manage your Windows environment more efficiently.

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