With the exponential growth of the internet, has come the mass input of sensitive personal data, from credit card details to passport numbers. Unfortunately this has brought with it new online threats, with data prone to attack from hackers and viruses.
A new security vulnerability as been identified in Open SSL that could effect up to 11 million websites or around one third of all computer servers using the HTTPS protocol.
A fix has been identified and is being issued but it will take some time for website administrators to make sure their systems are protected.
Cyber Essentials as the name suggests is a scheme backed by the Government and supported by the IT industry that provides businesses of all shapes and sizes with guidelines on how to protect themselves from Cyber Threats.
Many clients have asked us the pros and cons of an in-house hosted exchange vs. a cloud based system, so we have put together a whitepaper outlining the main differences.
Put simply Cloud Computing is just computing based on the internet, via remote servers. This means that the power of your computer at home or work has no limiting effect on what software you can use. It also means that rather than downloading and installing programs and applications directly to your computer, they are stored on servers which are accessible through the internet.
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.
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.
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:
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)}.
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Here are 4 key things for you to consider when reviewing your data protection strategy: