In 2020, 75% of companies around the world experienced a phishing attack. Phishing remains one of the biggest dangers to your business's health and wellbeing because it’s the main delivery method for all types of cyberattacks. One phishing email can be responsible for a company succumbing to ransomware and having to face costly downtime. It can also lead a user to unknowingly hand over the credentials...
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Unified communications are a go-to solution for business owners looking to streamline their businesses and increase employee productivity in the long term. See how it benefits your business. Providing high-quality communication channels is crucial for any company. After all, it promotes cross-department collaboration and faster exchange of ideas. Since phones often don’t suffice for this, many business owners turn to unified communications. But what exactly is unified communication? This...
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Skilled hackers can easily access your system and steal precious business information. Upgrading your cybersecurity can help address this problem. Taking your cybersecurity seriously is a must. Otherwise, you leave the door open for criminals to compromise your business’s privacy and cause legal troubles. Now, you might think that cybercriminals only target large companies due to more resources. But that’s not the case. Whether you’re a small or...
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When going about your day, there seems to constantly be a service asking for a password, it feels as if you need one just to change your mind these days. How many passwords do you think you have? How do you remember them all? Or do you just use the same one over and over? Just think for a minute of your front door key, how many...
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The global pandemic of COVID-19 caused many shops to close and forced people to stay at home more than ever, socialising over Zoom and shopping online. In recent years, there has been an explosion in the growth of internet retailing, with more than half of all UK consumers now shopping online according to retail analysts, GlobalData. With the UK's online shopping spend forecast to grow 30%...
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First things first: when we want to talk about 'the cloud', we need a bit of vocabulary - a bit like the Spanish or French classes back in school. Let's start with server. Very simplified, a server is a powerful computer that provides one specific job to other computers. Data centres are centres that host a lot of data on said servers. With those two things...
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When a new user account is created, the type of account determines what the user is able to do. This article outlines access control basics and helps you to navigate through the different aspects of identity management. User Types An administrator is someone who is in charge of the settings and controls of a computer, and someone logged into an account with administrator privileges can do pretty...
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Learning how to avoid being a victim of crime is an important life skill. At school, you learn to lock your locker securely and not allow other people to see what the combination numbers are. You would not leave an expensive or favourite coat hanging up unwatched in the cloakroom and you would not broadcast how much money you were carrying in your pocket. As you...
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Throughout history, when building homes, villages and towns, people have sought to create a layer of defence or security to maintain their safety and keep the bad guys out. Means of doing this have included locating oneself on a high hill, building boundary walls, moats, strong front doors and deploying armed guards and dogs. In the cyber world, rather than your material possessions, the commodity here...
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Cybercriminals can take advantage of various vulnerabilities in your company. Patching them up is crucial to protecting your reputation. Taking your cybersecurity seriously is essential regardless of your organisation. Otherwise, criminals can easily halt your operations. Take the University of Sunderland as an example. At first, it seemed like they had a standard IT issue that they would quickly resolve. But they soon realised that they were a...
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