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Virtual Conferences vs. In-Person Conferences

What do Facebook F8, Microsoft Ignite, Mobile World Congress, Google I/O, SXSW, Cisco Live Melbourne, and F5 Agility 2020 all have in common? These conferences are among the thousands of events worldw...

[UPDATE] 2020 Most Popular Password Managers Compared

Updated April 2, 2020 In recognition of World Password Day which falls on the first Thursday in May, we have updated our comparison of the most popular password managers by adding Devolutions Password...

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May Poll Question: What’s Your Opinion of Online Conferences?

As you may have heard, Microsoft has decided to move all of its conferences online until July 2021, including Microsoft Ignite. Microsoft certainly isn’t the only company making this shift. Other tech...

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April Poll Results: What Are Your Best Remote Working Hacks?

We’re all working remotely these days — some of us because we want to, and some of us because we have to. And this new reality inspired our April poll question: What are your best remote working hacks...

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Sysadminotaur #94: Special Request

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[COVID-19] Best Free Online Learning Platforms

What do Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Edvard Munch all have in common? No, it’s not that they have inspired countless memes. It’s that they produced some of their best work while in quar...

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[COVID-19] 5 Ways the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Going to Permanently Change the Work Landscape

Sooner or later (and hopefully it’s the former), the worst public health crisis that most of us have ever experienced will come to an end. But this doesn’t mean things will go back to the way they wer...

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[COVID-19] 10 Tips to Speed Up Your Home Virtual Private Network

The surge in employees working from home during the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a massive demand for Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology. For example, reports show that global use of some ...

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What Are the Benefits and Challenges of Improving Cloud Visibility?

The cloud is nothing new in the world of technology and it has already become mainstream. Organizations of all sizes store their data in the cloud and use various cloud-based solutions for different p...

[UPDATE] 10 Password Management Best Practices

Technology isn’t the only thing that needs an update every once in a while. Password management best practices do as well, since the information security landscape — and unfortunately, the tactics and...

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[NEW FEATURE] Devolutions Password Server 2020.1: Recording Server

I have some great news for all the Devolutions Password Server users around the world. Per our 2020 Roadmap and our focus on evolving Devolutions Password Server as a powerful Privileged Access Manage...

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7 Must-Have Board Games for the Workplace

As some of you may know, I’m a true board game geek. But I’m not the only one. Here at Devolutions, there are many of us who get together during breaks, at lunch, and after hours to play various board...

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Behind the SOC 2 Report: An Interview with Devolutions' CSO and Director of Legal Affairs, Risk and Privacy

As we announced last week, we have successfully completed our SOC 2 compliance audit. Many of our technical and business staff members worked with Ernst & Young’s team on the SOC 2 auditing of Dev...

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Sysadminotaur #93: Remote

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Microsoft Discontinues Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) + Invitation to Try Remote Desktop Manager (RDM)

In March, Microsoft announced that it was discontinuing Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) due to a major security flaw (CVE-2020-0765). Here is the bulletin: An information disclosure vulnera...

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[NEWS] Devolutions Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification

We are proud to announce that Devolutions has completed a SOC 2 Type II report which details the management’s description of Devolutions Password Hub (DPH) and the suitability of the design and operat...

The Basics of Phishing

I know that the IT pros who frequent our blog know all about the dangers of phishing. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance that many of your non-technical colleagues are less informed. Yes, they proba...

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Why Account Brokering Is a Better Option than Resetting Passwords + How Devolutions Can Help

For several years, resetting passwords (a.k.a. account rotation) has been a standard best practice. For those outside the IT security world, this involves automatically generating a new password each ...

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[COVID-19] 10 Tips to Stay Safe from Cyber Threats While Working from Home

In the past, remote workers — who were typically called teleworkers or telecommuters — were the rare exception, and the envy of folks who had to endure a miserable commute, or slog away from 9-5 in a ...

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5 Elements of a Strong Cybersecurity Policy

For any company in the digital age, cybersecurity is an obvious area of concern. If your company holds any kind of sensitive or otherwise valuable information — such as identity documents, personal re...