Your employees (hopefully) know about the threat of phishing attacks and the potential negative impacts they can have across a business. If not, it really is time to get them clued up and aware that even a basic level of awareness of phishing attacks really can be the front line of defense for the firm’s cyber …
Some firms fall into the false sense of security that by using Microsoft 365, their critical data is already safe. Given Microsoft 365 email security and other cloud-based productivity solutions’ vulnerability to malware, this is simply not the case. In this article, we look at how email is one of the most common weaknesses …
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For many years now, email has consistently provided one of the easiest ways that cyber criminals can execute phishing attacks. Irrespective of how you slice the numbers, the threat of organizational security and data breach through email phishing attacks is real, and growing. The reason attacks continue to grow is because they continue to be successful. In fact, …
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For reasons of simplicity and cost, we realize there is a temptation for many small business owners not to back up data hosted in Microsoft 365. But that could be a big mistake, and in a two-part blog series we outline why that is. Human error Humans make mistakes, and files can become overwritten or …
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In January 2020, Microsoft officially discontinued support and updates for Windows 7, officially concluding the five-year notice period its customers were given to make the move to Windows 10. Among many benefits of making the move to Windows 10, security stands out, and there are a number of reasons to make the switch to the …
Although collaboration and messaging platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, WhatsApp and the like are offering alternative ways of working, email remains a vital part of business communication. In fact the number is growing, with Statista estimating that 281 billion emails were sent and received daily in 2018, with the number expected to grow …
Sadly not everyone pulls together in times of crisis, and the COVID-19 crisis has seen an increase of 37% in cyber attacks around the world. Whether this is due to a combination of hackers with more free time, or opportunistic expert cyber criminals exploiting the environment in which law enforcement, government and IT resources are …
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