Passwords – An IT Support Person’s Nightmare
As we enter the New Year there is always a rush to establish what we learned from the previous year and report it. 2015 is no exception and a recent report on the BBC newsbeat website gives a stark warning to all IT professionals about allowing users to set their own passwords as they have published the 2015 most popular passwords list.
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2016 IT Security Predictions
As we start the new year, we’ve been taking a look through the technical press to see what the key predictions are for IT security this year.
IT Security Suggestions for the Christmas Period
We’re all coming up to our Christmas shutdown and so we thought it would be a good idea to recap some suggestions for IT security over the holiday. Here are some important things you need to think about before you lock the door and head off home:
Outlook 2010 Problems
If you’ve recently started having problems with your email and are running Microsoft Outlook 2010 then it may be because they had a product update on the 8th December {December 8, 2015, update for Outlook 2010 (KB3114409)}.
The PC market is shrinking
It may not be obvious to everyone, until they stop and think about it, but the PC market is contracting. Some news portals are giving figures of a contraction of 11% in the 3rd quarter of 2015.
IGC Fighting Crime
Every now and then something happens that proves all of the warnings IT suppliers make about back-ups and data protection are not just overblown efforts to sell their IT support services. A burglary last week proved to be one of them.
Cloud security is more than just an IT issue
This week we take a look at some recommendations received from two trusted sources to see how they are helping with the fight against Cyber Crime.
We’ve launched a Glossary
Don’t know your Data Lake from your Bimodal IT? Well don’t worry, we’ve launched our IT Glossary to help you understand the vast array of jargon that we tecchies are particularly fond of.
The History of Cyber Security
As Cyber Security continues to be at the forefront of the news we thought we would recap the history of the internet’s most negative users.
Here are 4 key things for you to consider when reviewing your data protection strategy: