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2019-04-30 08:23:21
### Education, Education, Education
Those of us of a certain age will remember the promise that things can only get better… and the mantra of “education, education, education”. It all seems a long way away today. The good news? When it comes to cybersecurity, things can get significantly better with a relatively small investment in...
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2019-04-24 14:51:28
### SCVO Releases Additional Cyber Security Vouchers to Third Sector
Act now. Applications will not be accepted after 3rd May 2019.
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2019-04-17 14:45:05
### Cyber Essentials – Easy as 1-2-3?
The Government-backed Cyber Essentials scheme is becoming both increasingly well-known and applied for. We think this is a good thing.
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2019-04-03 14:29:21
### Detox Your Digital
No, we’re not talking about cutting down the time you spend on social media (but we’re quite happy to advocate that too). We’re talking about a corporate digital detox: a thorough audit and cleanse of your entire IT estate – and how to go about it.
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2019-03-26 10:23:23
### The (Free) First Step to Better IT!
In over 30 years in IT, I still encounter many business owners and IT-decision makers who find themselves spending too much of their valuable time dealing with staff technology problems and continually looking for work-arounds to the IT issues.
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2019-03-18 11:15:43
### Office 365 Popularity Grows…as does its potential vulnerability
Since its introduction, Microsoft’s Office suite products have clearly been the tools of choice for most of the world’s businesses - most of us using at least one of the applications on a daily basis.
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2019-03-11 07:30:17
### Are You Doing Enough on Mobile Device Security?
We all want to do our best to keep our corporate data and systems safe. Each year, organisations invest millions in firewalls, anti-virus software, training and patching programmes. But how much of this is directed at mobile devices?
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2019-03-04 07:30:12
### How setting up SOPs can help you deal with IT points of failure
Creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) covering your core technology is valuable even within a small business. It will save you a lot of stress when having to deal with critical events and help your team when having to think and act under pressure. Moreover, setting up proactive actions will...
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2019-02-25 07:30:55
### Passwords: Can we live without them?
For thousands of years, passwords have been used as a means of authentication; a way in which people could be confident that security was maintained.
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