by JR Bareis | May 5, 2026 | Tigerhawk Blog
Picture walking up to a house and finding a key under the mat. Convenient, predictable, and the first place someone with bad intentions will check. That’s how most businesses handle passwords. The problem is not just weak passwords. It is reused ones. Most breaches do...
by JR Bareis | Apr 28, 2026 | Tigerhawk Blog
It’s Monday morning. You’ve got coffee. You’ve got a plan.This is the week you finally get ahead. You walk in. Before you even sit down:“The printer’s not working again.” Not the old one. The new one. You say “restart it,” even though you know that’s not fixing...
by JR Bareis | Apr 21, 2026 | Tigerhawk Blog
Remember blowing into Nintendo cartridges to make them work? That was our version of IT support. Didn’t load? Blow on it. Still didn’t work? Blow harder.If that failed… give it a good smack. We thought we were pretty good with technology. But your kid? Their setup is...
by JR Bareis | Apr 14, 2026 | Tigerhawk Blog
Spring cleaning usually starts with closets. But for most businesses, the real clutter isn’t on a hanger. It’s in a back office. A storage room. A pile labeled “we’ll deal with that later.” Old laptops. Retired printers. Backup drives from three upgrades ago. Boxes of...
by JR Bareis | Apr 7, 2026 | Tigerhawk Blog
April 1st comes and goes. The fake announcements stop. The pranks fade out. But the scams? They don’t take the day off. In fact, this is when they work best. Because everything looks normal again. The Problem Isn’t Obvious Anymore Most people still picture scams as...
by JR Bareis | Mar 24, 2026 | Tigerhawk Blog
It’s Monday morning. Coffee in hand. Laptop open. Ready to go. Your elbow clips the mug. Time slows down just enough for you to watch coffee spill across the keyboard and disappear into places coffee should never go. The screen flickers.The keyboard stops...
