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If your business uses a generic email like info@, sales@, or support@, there's a good chance you're paying for it incorrectly.

The default approach most SMBs take is to set up a regular user mailbox, share the password between staff, and call it a day.

That setup creates two real problems.

1) There's no audit trail of who sent what.
When someone leaves, they still have the password. And shared passwords are one of the most common ways small businesses get compromised.

2) You're paying for a Microsoft 365 license on a mailbox that no human owns.

Microsoft 365 has a built-in feature that solves both: Shared Mailboxes.
A Shared Mailbox lets multiple staff access the same email address (info@, support@, etc.) using their own personal logins.

Replies appear to come from the shared address.

Every action is logged under the individual employee. And it does not require a separate license if the mailbox stays under 50 GB.

How to set one up:
1. Sign in to admin.microsoft.com
2. Go to Teams & groups > Shared mailboxes
3. Click Add a shared mailbox
4. Enter a display name and email address
5. Click Add members and choose who gets access

Members can read, send from, and manage the shared address from their own Outlook within an hour.

When an employee leaves, you remove them from the mailbox in 30 seconds.

There are no password changes, and no risk of an ex-employee still reading client emails.

The one Outlook rule you need to set to save yourself from awkward conversations.

It's called "delay delivery." You set it once in classic Outlook, and from that point on every email you send sits in your Outbox for a specific time (that you set) before it leaves.

If you spot a typo, realize you sent the wrong attachment, or wrote something in frustration you wish you hadn't, you can have a standard 2-minute delay to give you enough time to stop it.

Just delete the email from your Outbox before the timer runs out.
To set it up in classic Outlook:

1. Go to File > Manage Rules & Alerts
2. Click "New Rule" and pick "Apply rule on messages I send"
3. Skip past the conditions so it applies to every email
4. Check "defer delivery by a number of minutes" and set it to 2
5. Save the rule

This is better than Outlook's built-in "Recall" feature, because it works every single time.

Blazing fast mmWave 5G is officially making headway in Canada—but don't ditch your current infrastructure just yet. 📱🍁

Carriers like Bell are showing off the incredible potential of ultra-high-frequency mmWave 5G (including major rollouts targeted at high-capacity events like the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Montreal).

While the promise of massive bandwidth and near-zero latency is exciting for edge computing and a highly mobile workforce, widespread national availability is going to take time.

What does this mean for your business technology roadmap?

🚀 The Hype: mmWave provides fibre-like wireless speeds capable of transforming remote operations, smart warehouses, and dense corporate offices.
📉 The Reality: Because high-frequency waves have limited range and struggle to pe*****te walls, broad deployment requires dense, hyper-local infrastructure.

For business leaders in Markham, the takeaway is clear: enjoy the cellular speed bumps as they roll into the GTA, but ensure your remote teams still have robust endpoint security, secure corporate VPN networks, and zero-trust policies that protect them on any public network tier.

Check out the full rollout status via MobileSyrup: https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/05/22/faster-mmwave-5g-canada-wait/

Faster mmWave 5G is coming to Canada, but you'll need to wait The feds will auction spectrum crucial for mmWave late next year, which means Canadians likely won't benefit from mmWave until 2028.

If a website ever tells you to press Windows Key + R, close the tab.

That single instruction is the giveaway for a fast-growing scam called ClickFix, which has been behind a wave of infostealer infections all year.

An infostealer is malware that scrapes every saved password, browser cookie, session token, and stored credit card...

You click a Google result that takes you to a hacked website.

A fake CAPTCHA pops up and tells you to press Windows Key + R, then Ctrl + V, then Enter to verify you're human.

The second you hit Enter, you've installed malware on your own machine.
This attack slips past most security tools because you run the command yourself.

No file was downloaded, so antivirus has nothing to scan.

The browser shows no warning.

From the operating system's perspective, you typed a command into a Windows utility, the same as any admin doing real work.

A few things you can do this week:

1. Tell your team that if any website prompts the user to press Win+R or paste something into the Run box, they should close the tab and report it.
2. Restrict PowerShell for non-IT staff using AppLocker or Windows Defender Application Control. Most office employees have no work reason to run PowerShell scripts.
3. Make sure your endpoint protection is doing behavioral monitoring and not just signature scanning. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and most modern EDR tools have detection rules specifically for this attack chain.

There's no shame in falling for a fake CAPTCHA. They're designed to look real. But once your team knows the keystroke trick, this scam stops working on them.

Is your firewall architecture designed for the way your business actually operates today? 🌐🔒

A common mistake we see is trying to protect a hybrid cloud setup using standard, old-school network perimeters. The reality is that Physical and Virtual firewalls aren't competing technologies—they are optimized for completely different jobs.

To secure a borderless network, you need to understand the structural differences in traffic flow:

🧱 Physical Firewalls: Best for fixed, high-throughput on-premises perimeters. They manage "North-South" traffic entering and leaving your building. However, they are blind the moment traffic moves inside your virtual workloads.
☁️ Virtual Firewalls: Best for cloud-native or software-defined environments. They follow the workload anywhere it scales and enable deep packet inspection for "East-West" traffic moving laterally between your internal systems.

For most growing SMBs, relying on a unified, hybrid mesh model is the sweet spot to ensure policies remain consistent across on-prem hardware and cloud instances without creating security gaps.

How is your team securing lateral traffic within your cloud infrastructure? Let's discuss a modern roadmap for your network.

Full technical breakdown: https://securitybrief.ca/story/virtual-vs-physical-firewalls-a-practical-guide-for-modern-networks

Virtual vs. physical firewalls: A practical guide for modern networks Hybrid networks need the right mix of hardware and software firewalls to avoid bottlenecks, gaps and policy drift.

Software companies are changing their terms of service to train their AI on your internal company data.

If you use tools like HubSpot, Salesforce, QuickBooks, or Asana, you need to run a privacy audit this week.

The idea that your data will be leaked to the public is a bit overstated. Most of these platforms anonymize the information…

However, they are still feeding your real business data into their external AI models.

Getting them to stop is not always a simple toggle switch in your account settings.

Many of these platforms force you to submit a formal support ticket or email request to opt out.

And even when you do, it does not retroactively remove the historical data they already grabbed.

To protect your information, prioritize enterprise software plans that include a strict "Do Not Train" clause in the contract.

You can also use automated privacy tools to enforce these rules across your entire software stack instead of doing it manually.