Ransomware is a well-named type of cyberattack. Cybercriminals taking this approach to kidnap your data. After accessing your network, they encrypt files and demand payment for the passcode. Here are the top seven things you need to know about this business threat. #1 It Can Happen to You Cybercriminals rely on your false confidence. Don’t
A staggering 269 billion emails are sent every day. Your business is receiving only a small fraction of those emails. Yet your staff likely feel as if at least 269 of those are coming their way daily. In fact, the typical employee in 2018 received 90 emails and sent out 40. An email is a
Business meetings can be a double-edged sword. Often they are as likely to rally staff and build momentum as they are to halt progress and kill productivity. Productive meetings are key to keeping team members on track and everyone on the same page. A poor meeting is as harmful to the progress of a project
Your business is always looking to reduce costs. Looking at the information technology budget line items is headache inducing. So much money spent in one area, and there’s so little you can do about it! But is that really true? IT expenses may not be as fixed as you think. Take a look at these
Doing business today you are as likely to give out your website address as your email or phone number. Your Web domain is your business identity on the internet. Don’t risk falling victim to the cyber threat known as domain hijacking. You build up a business site to represent your brand online. Every bit of
Let’s be realistic. You don’t care about information technology (IT). Or, you do, but only so far as it supports you getting the things you care about done. You’d rather not think about IT at all. Many businesses are that way. That’s fine by us. We care enough about IT for all our clients. You
Social engineering is the act of manipulating and taking advantage of the weakest link in any organisation’s IT security defences: people. This can also sometimes be known as “people hacking” and involves maliciously exploiting the trusting nature of human beings to trick people into performing actions or divulging confidential information like passwords and PINs. The
here’s a common misconception that user data in SaaS applications (Office365 or G-Suite) is fully backed up. It’s more likely that an employee will delete something they end up needing two weeks later than the possibility of all of Google’s servers being destroyed by a storm. In fact, SaaS applications usually aren’t the responsible party
