Daniel Cross 
Every VPN connection runs on an underlying protocol that determines how your traffic gets encrypted, tunneled, and delivered. Most business VPN providers today let you choose between WireGuard and OpenVPN, and the choice actually matters — it affects speed, battery life on mobile devices, and how easily your connection recovers when you switch networks mid-call. … Read more
Split tunneling lets you route only some of your device’s traffic through a VPN while the rest travels over your regular internet connection directly. It is one of the most misunderstood VPN settings — used correctly, it solves real performance problems; used carelessly, it can quietly undo the protection a VPN is supposed to provide. … Read more
A VPN kill switch is supposed to be a safety net: if the encrypted tunnel drops unexpectedly, the kill switch blocks all internet traffic until the tunnel reconnects, preventing your device from silently falling back to an unprotected connection. In practice, kill switches vary enormously in how reliably they actually work, and a kill switch … Read more
Most of the VPN advice aimed at small teams focuses on remote access VPNs — the kind an individual installs on their laptop to connect securely to the internet. But there is a second, less commonly discussed category, site-to-site VPN, that solves a different problem entirely: connecting two fixed office locations or a office and … Read more
A password alone, no matter how strong, is a single point of failure. Two-factor authentication adds a second, independent check — something you have, like your phone, in addition to something you know, like your password — so that a stolen or guessed password alone is not enough to access an account. Most teams know … Read more
Passkeys are quietly replacing passwords across major platforms, and for good reason: they are resistant to phishing in a way traditional passwords fundamentally are not, and they remove the need to remember or type anything at all for most logins. For a small team evaluating whether to adopt them now or wait, this guide explains … Read more
Most teams that eventually adopt a dedicated password manager start with passwords scattered across browser autofill, sticky notes, and the occasional shared spreadsheet. Migrating to a proper password manager is straightforward in principle, but done carelessly it can leave plaintext credentials sitting around in export files, or leave gaps where old browser-saved passwords remain active … Read more
Every small team eventually faces the same question: how should multiple people access a shared account — a social media login, a vendor portal, a shared analytics dashboard — without creating a security mess? The answer most password managers offer is shared vaults, but how you structure them matters as much as whether you use … Read more
Identity and Access Management, or IAM, controls who can do what within your cloud environment — which users, services, and applications can read a database, launch a server, or delete a storage bucket. Misconfigured IAM permissions are one of the root causes behind many cloud security incidents covered in our cloud security basics guide, and … Read more
Public storage bucket exposures remain one of the most common — and most avoidable — cloud security incidents, and they continue to happen despite being widely known and well documented. This guide provides a specific, step-by-step checklist for auditing and securing S3 buckets and their GCP equivalent, Cloud Storage buckets, going beyond the general overview … Read more