If you were one of the 150 people who attended our recent cyber security webinars, you will know that business security is now a boardroom issue, and not simply something that can be left to the IT department. The increase in the number of organisations operating a hybrid work from [...]

In Cisco's latest survey - the Future of Secure Remote Work report - 81% of the 3,000 global respondents see cybersecurity as extremely important or more important than before the pandemic. The report reveals that 85% have more than half of their workforce working remotely, and at least half of [...]

Think your business is protected just because you have a backup? You need to think again. Without backup there is no recovery. But not all backups are the same, and different organisations require different solutions. In very simple terms, backups are there to recover your systems and data if something [...]

Working from home has now become a way of life for around half of the British workforce, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. Employers are preparing for a hybrid work environment that is likely to be here to stay, with 50% of UK respondents in a Cisco [...]

When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018, it brought big changes to the way we gather and store information. It also brought the opportunity to be fined up to 20 million Euros or four percent of annual global revenues, for non-compliance. Data protection law [...]

The last few months of quickly switching between office-based and home working, or maintaining a hybrid of the two, has left many businesses on the back foot when it comes to making sure their operations are secure. Cybercrime is big business, and the 2020 Cyber Security Breaches Survey from the [...]

Have the events of the last few months been the catalyst that prompted your organisation to finally focus on creating a comprehensive, regularly tested disaster recovery strategy? Disaster recovery is an umbrella term that covers a wide range of business interruption situations. The rush to facilitate remote working back in [...]

Given the volume and complexity of identities, data, applications, devices, and infrastructures, it’s not surprising that employers want the confidence that their organisation really is fully protected and that their users can connect to the business environment securely and with confidence. It’s worth noting that most remote home users connect [...]

It’s safe to say that the current situation has presented all of us with challenges we have never before come up against. We are juggling the demands of coping with a once-familiar world of work that has been turned on its head, and also dealing with worries about our own [...]

At the time of writing we are still under lockdown here in the UK and aside from key workers, home working or furlough continues to be the norm for most of us. Some businesses are already struggling, and when we emerge from this stage there will undoubtedly be some casualties, [...]

Cyber criminals are exploiting the COVID-19 situation, stepping up their efforts to get users to click on links to a donation site, look at a virus cure, or buy ‘hard to get’ items such as hand sanitiser. Their emails are specifically designed to get you to click before you think, [...]

How are you and your business managing in these very challenging circumstances? As we all navigate our way through these uncharted waters, we want to use our website news page and social media feeds to share with you what we are doing to look after our clients and employees, and to remind you that we are always [...]

At the time of writing the world is in an unprecedented situation, with thousands of people suddenly joining the ranks of home workers, in an attempt to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Good communication is key, and within our own business we are using Microsoft Teams to work [...]

Like many of you, the vast majority of our employees are working from home and we have a limited rota of people at our County Durham data centre, carrying out physical activities that cannot be done from home. These employees – and clients currently using our fully equipped workspace recovery [...]

If you’re looking for a more efficient approach to managing your IT, a managed services model could be just the job. Whatever the size and type of your organisation, your IT staff need to be highly skilled, multi-disciplinary teams, up to speed with technology developments and capable of working at [...]

The ease of accessing and consuming cloud services in both our professional and personal lives has led many organisations to neglect security issues in favour of focusing on the benefits. While we are passionate advocates of the benefits of cloud and its ease of connectivity, we make no claims that [...]

Given the majority of all successful cyber attacks involve some form of human error, we explore whether you can really scare people into better online security It’s often assumed you can change the way people behave using fear. The fear of making a mistake or creating the security issue [...]