2019 is the year that we move on from passwords.

Everyone hates passwords. IT people spend hours trying to enforce great habits, but somehow passwords always end up on sticky notes posted on a monitor. Occasionally the sticky note is put in a drawer. Nobody ever looks there.

Whatever the good intentions of everyone involved, passwords are just not working. The great news is, things are changing and passwords are going to be a thing of the past.

While passwords can seem restrictive and difficult, ensuring you have secure passwords is important. You may not think you have any information you want to protect, but look closer look. Do you share passwords between systems? Is your banking login the same as Facebook and your email?

Does this sound like you?

After espousing the benefits of the cloud here, there are some reasons why you’d want to host some of your infrastructure on your own premises.

More and more technologists are shouting “Cloud Only” like it’s the only option you have. However, the world is never that black and white, and your IT needs to work on this scale of grey.

A much better philosophy is “Cloud preferably”