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Every employee should use their own account wherever the software allows it. Individual accounts let you control permissions, use MFA properly, remove access when someone leaves, and see who performed each action.
Changing the password blocks someone from signing in with the old password. However, they may still have an active session, a forwarding rule, access through a connected app, mailbox permissions, or a recovery method they added.
Scammers now use AI to write their phishing emails, so the spelling and grammar mistakes that used to give them away are gone.
The tools that run your business, like Microsoft 365, your accounting app, or your booking system, are reliable most of the time, but they do go down.
If your business uses Microsoft 365, you have both OneDrive and SharePoint, and files usually end up scattered across them with no clear rule.
Most small-business websites run on WordPress, and the biggest risk is usually old plugins that nobody has updated.