In just minutes, a breach can damage customer trust for a lifetime. According to the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report, last year there were 157,525 incidents and 108,069 breaches. That may not trigger concern and thoughts like “we’ll be OK”, until you realise 100,000+ of those breaches were credentials of individual users being compromised, to target bank accounts, cloud services, etc.

At Tidy we want our customers to be safe, knowing their organisation is operating with the highest level of security possible yet not placing obstacles in the way of providing great service to your clients and customers.

Sources: Risk Based Security Report, 2019; Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report; Juniper Research Cybercrime & The Internet of Threats, 2017; Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2018; Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2020

Cyber-attacks are likely to become more and more common as more business move online. Criminals are an unfortunate element within society. The best we can do, is help protect your information online, especially sensitive and confidential personal/business information. Here are some tips to help keep both your personal and business information secure:

Tidy’s cloud software is built on Microsoft’s Azure advanced cloud hosting platform which is a key advantage due to the Billions of (US) dollars annually that Microsoft invest in security. Microsoft Security takes a holistic approach to securing your organisation’s IT and data environment across four key vectors: identity and access management, protection against threats, safeguarding of data at-rest and in-transit, and comprehensive visibility and control over your security ecosystem.

Your data in Tidy’s products will be stored and processed within the Azure platform, leveraging the world’s largest, most trusted, and most committed security presence.

Cyber security focus is not only an area that technology giants and mission critical business software providers like Tidy, Xero, etc. pay huge attention to. More and more governments now urge (and in some countries are beginning to demand) the use of secure methods to protect your online businesses from attacks. In response to the Australian government’s announcement to apply 2FA in cloud software, financial accounting software providers like Xero, MYOB, etc. have already implemented 2FA. Tidy as an associated application and long-standing partner of Xero and takes the online security of our clients’ business seriously. After thoughtful consideration, we have implemented the Microsoft account login within Tidy, so your organisation can benefit from the huge sums that Microsoft invests in this area which is among the highest level of investment globally. With Microsoft’s built-in identity protection and Azure cloud platform security, Tidy provides customers with a higher level of security experience. Tidy keeps your data safe and secure in the cloud, even before you realise it. Click to know more about the Tidy’s products.

Tidy allows its users to sign-in through third-party applications like Microsoft, instead of a standard log-in. These can be easily set up in your Tidy account as below:

1. In Global Settings, click on Users

2. For the user you would like to edit, click on Edit User

3. The login options of the user will be displayed, with two fields that can be changed.

These are the Login Type, and the Login ID

There are four third party options you can choose from to implement Single Sign On (SSO)

Any of these Single Sign On options offer 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) as part of their service.

To learn how to set up 2 Factor Authentication for your Microsoft Account, please read this article:

To learn how to set up 2 Factor Authentication for your Google or Facebook Account, please read the related article below: