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Connecting Point Greeley At Conneciting Point, we leverage technology for productivity, security, & growth. Let’s rethink what IT can do for your business.

We provide managed IT & consulting services tailored for small businesses, ensuring seamless operations and growth. Connecting Point – Strategic IT Support for Growing Businesses

At Connecting Point, we help growing businesses in Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming take control of their IT. We’re not just here to fix what's broken—we're here to build smarter, more secure systems that actually move your business forward. From fully managed IT and co-managed solutions to cybersecurity, cloud services, and strategic consulting, we tailor our support to your team, your goals, and your growth. With deep roots in Greeley and a no-nonsense approach to tech, we make IT less chaotic, more predictable, and a whole lot more effective.

Windows 10 stopped receiving security updates in October 2025. A year later, plenty of businesses are still running it.E...
10/16/2026

Windows 10 stopped receiving security updates in October 2025. A year later, plenty of businesses are still running it.

End-of-life software is a quiet risk because nothing breaks. The machine boots, staff work, and the only change is that newly discovered vulnerabilities never get patched. Attackers keep track of which versions stopped getting fixes.

Worth inventorying this quarter: any Windows 10 machines still in service, Server 2016, and the SQL Server and Exchange versions most businesses forget they are running.

The budget conversation is easier in October than it is in March.

Microsoft's lifecycle search tool: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/

Not sure what is past end of life on your network? A Network Discovery might be in order.
https://www.cpcolorado.com/contact-us | (970) 356-7224

Look closely at the AI incidents making headlines and a pattern shows up: most of them were not AI failures. They were g...
10/15/2026

Look closely at the AI incidents making headlines and a pattern shows up: most of them were not AI failures. They were governance failures that AI made faster, louder, and more expensive.

Ken McCoy of Confiance Cybersecurity joins us to break down two of the most talked-about incidents of recent years and show what actually went wrong underneath the AI story. You will leave with practical guidance on acceptable use policies, vendor assessment, and his Fundamentals Framework for closing the gaps AI tends to expose.

Register at the link below.

The AI Illusion: Why Your Biggest AI Risk Has Nothing to Do With AI

Wednesday, November 11 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST

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How long does your company keep a signed lease after the tenant moves out?Most property management companies cannot answ...
10/14/2026

How long does your company keep a signed lease after the tenant moves out?

Most property management companies cannot answer that, because nothing was ever decided. Leases, owner agreements, income documentation, and legal correspondence accumulate across shared drives and email attachments, and nobody set a rule for what gets kept, where it lives, or who can open it.

That becomes a problem in two directions. Documents you should have are hard to produce when an owner or an attorney asks. Documents you should have purged years ago are still sitting there, waiting to be part of a breach.

Our new blog covers document security and retention for property managers.

Read it here: https://www.cpcolorado.com/2026/10/leases-owner-data-and-legal-docs-your-files-outlive-every-system-theyre-stored-in/?jc

Need help sorting out where your documents actually live?
https://www.cpcolorado.com/contact-us | (970) 356-7224

Ransomware don’t break down the front door. It logs in as if it were a routine process. The common entry points are fai...
10/13/2026

Ransomware don’t break down the front door. It logs in as if it were a routine process.

The common entry points are fairly basic: a remote access tool exposed to the internet, a VPN appliance missing a patch, or credentials bought from someone who stole them months earlier. Then the attacker sits quietly, maps the network, finds the backups, and encrypts those first.

Three questions worth answering this week. Is at least one backup copy isolated where ransomware cannot reach it? When did someone last perform an actual test restore? And who is responsible for patching anything facing the internet?

CISA's guide is the best free resource on this: https://www.cisa.gov/stopransomware

If you can’t answer all three, a Network Discovery might be in order.
https://www.cpcolorado.com/contact-us | (970) 356-7224

Thinking about calling us but not sure what you are signing up for? Here is the whole thing.You call. We ask what is wor...
10/12/2026

Thinking about calling us but not sure what you are signing up for? Here is the whole thing.

You call. We ask what is working and what is driving you crazy. If it makes sense to look closer, we schedule a Network Discovery which costs you nothing.

From there you’ll get a better idea of your network: what hardware you have, what is past end of life, who has access that should not, and whether your backups would actually work during an emergency restore.

No contract, no pressure. Just the first step towards an ongoing partnership that positions your team to do what they do best while we handle the rest.

Schedule a Network Discovery: https://www.cpcolorado.com/contact-us | (970) 356-7224

You’re probably paying for security features nobody turned on.Microsoft 365 ships with protection that stays dormant unt...
10/09/2026

You’re probably paying for security features nobody turned on.

Microsoft 365 ships with protection that stays dormant until someone configures it. The subscription renews, the features stay off, and the business assumes it is covered because it bought the license.

Three things looking into this week: Security defaults, which enforces MFA for every user and blocks the legacy protocols attackers use to get around it. Secure Score, a dashboard that grades your setup and lists fixes in priority order. And audit logging, which you will badly want configured the day you need to know what an account touched and when.

None of these cost extra, however, all three are often left overlooked and untouched.

Microsoft's Secure Score walks you through what to fix first: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-xdr/microsoft-secure-score

Or, reach out to our team to better understand what else isn’t being utilized in your IT environment.

https://www.cpcolorado.com/contact-us | (970) 356-7224

Phishing attempts are getting harder to spot, and the old advice about typos and bad grammar no longer holds.The Anti-Ph...
10/08/2026

Phishing attempts are getting harder to spot, and the old advice about typos and bad grammar no longer holds.

The Anti-Phishing Working Group tracks this quarter by quarter, and their reports are worth a look if you want to see what is actually circulating rather than generic warnings. The pattern over the past two years: attackers are impersonating specific vendors and services your business already uses, which means the message arrives looking exactly like something you were expecting.

That shift matters for how you train staff. "Look for suspicious wording" is dead advice. "Verify before you act, every time, even when it looks legitimate" is the one that still works.

Read the latest report: https://apwg.org/trendsreports/

Want to put your team through a real phishing simulation? That is something we can set up.

https://www.cpcolorado.com/contact-us | (970) 356-7224

At most property management companies, more people have access to shared inboxes than you’d expect. They get set up for ...
10/07/2026

At most property management companies, more people have access to shared inboxes than you’d expect. They get set up for convenience, access gets granted as staff rotate through, and nobody removes it when someone moves to a different role or leaves entirely.

Those mailboxes hold tenant applications, income documentation, owner correspondence, and payment information. When access is never reviewed, a shared inbox becomes the least protected repository of sensitive data in the company.

Our new blog covers how shared mailbox access accumulates, what it exposes, and how to structure it so convenience does not cost you control.

Read it here: https://www.cpcolorado.com/2026/09/2026-10-07-how-many-people-have-access-to-the-leasing-mailbox-the-shared-mailbox-problem/

Not sure who has access to your shared mailboxes? That is worth finding out.

https://www.cpcolorado.com/contact-us | (970) 356-7224

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so we are spending our Tuesdays talking about topics that relate to keeping yo...
10/06/2026

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so we are spending our Tuesdays talking about topics that relate to keeping your IT environment safe.

Verizon's 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 60% of breaches involved a human element, and stolen credentials remain one of the top paths in. No zero-days, no custom malware. Someone clicked, or a password got reused, or a patch sat unapplied.

If the common attacks are basic, the defenses that stop them are basic too. Multi-factor authentication, patching on a schedule, backups you have actually tested, and staff who know what a phishing attempt looks like will handle the large majority of what comes at a small business.

CISA's Secure Our World campaign covers the four core habits: https://www.cisa.gov/secure-our-world

Want to know where you stand? https://www.cpcolorado.com/contact-us | (970) 356-7224

Meet Owen Spooner, Tier 1 Professional Services Engineer at Connecting Point.Owen works on the front end of every client...
10/05/2026

Meet Owen Spooner, Tier 1 Professional Services Engineer at Connecting Point.

Owen works on the front end of every client relationship. He handles onboarding, project deployment tasks, initial system configurations, and hardware installations, which means he is often the first person a new client's staff meets.

That first week sets the tone for everything after it. Owen makes sure new users are set up to work rather than left guessing, and his willingness to help is something clients regularly talk about.

Thanks for the work you do, Owen.

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