Critical Hardware and Business Applications can Fail One of the most alarming things about the nature of any company’s IT infrastructure is that a lot of the time you don’t realise there’s a problem until it’s too late. Critical hardware and business applications can fail, and nobody knows anything about it until the damage is […]
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Outsourcing Your IT – Why it’s SUCH a good idea for SMEs
Outsourcing Your IT – Why it’s SUCH a good idea for SMEs In the small to medium-sized enterprise market, the last few years have seen the once-ubiquitous IT department gradually losing popularity as more and more businesses decide to outsource their IT support and rely on off-site providers for security, storage and networking solutions. According […]
GDPR – ICO Takes Action Against Organisations That Have Failed To Pay New Data Protection Fee
GDPR – ICO Takes Action Against Organisations That Have Failed To Pay New Data Protection Fee The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) only came into force 5 months ago, on 25th May 2018, and already the ICO have begun taking action against organisations. Last month, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it is taking […]
‘More Than Half’ of UK Businesses have STILL not addressed GDPR
‘More Than Half’ of UK Businesses have STILL not addressed GDPR It has now been over four months since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on May 25th, unifying the different levels of data protection across the EU and tackling the issue of exporting data outside the EU. With its main focus being […]
Facebook Security Breach: October 2018
Facebook Security Breach: October 2018 On Tuesday 25th September 2018, Facebook was the victim of a cyber-attack, which has affected over 30 million Facebook users. This attack is the worst security breach that Facebook has been the victim of, with the hackers successfully accessing the personal data of 29 million Facebook accounts. Facebook has launched […]
Quality Hosting Is Fundamental To Business
Quality Hosting Is Fundamental To Business The business landscape is, inexorably transforming itself into a digital one. Even the most traditional mum and dad, ‘bricks and mortar’ ventures are busy carving themselves out an online presence, and most of the drudge work of filing and indexing is being replaced by data entry. A few years […]
Why Cyber Security Is So Important For Your Business
Why Cyber Security Is So Important For Your Business The increasing transfer of data (from old-fashioned paper filing systems to digital formats) in recent years has allowed business efficiency to increase in leaps and bounds. No more bulging filing cabinets or heavy document boxes to contend with, now information is literally at your fingertips and […]
IT Advice For A Start-Up Business
IT Advice For A Start-Up Business When anyone creates a Start-Up Business, they do so in the full knowledge that there’s a gamble involved. The unpleasant truth is that a half of businesses fail in their first year of trading. So it’s wise to make sure you concentrate on not failing among their number. But […]
GRU Cyber Attack Allegations – Protecting Your Business from Cybercrime
Last week, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) discovered and exposed several cyber-attacks that were conducted by the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU. Britain – along with its allies Australia and New Zealand, have accused the GRU of being responsible for many attacks over the past couple of years. Even with the latest installments […]
Protecting Your IT System
Protecting Your IT System Back when computer technology was in its infancy, most people believed automation and computerisation would revolutionise the way we work and do business. And it did, but not in the way a lot of us expected. Computers were supposed to be able to take over a lot of the work, and […]