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Are you really safe?
CFO: “Hey Mrs/Mr IT Manager…. Are we secured from Cyber attacks?” IT Manager: Firewall – check Anti-malware – check Active Directory – check O.S Patches – check “Yes, we’re covering our bases” Random employee with company email account: “Hold my beer…” It takes one person to introduce your business to a whole world of pain.…
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Now what?
So you’ve just read the news and once again read about a massive fine being issued due to a data breach, or a city in America that’s just paid a ransom on their data for the third time in a month. Perhaps you’ve just had a visit from a highly effective Cyber Awareness Trainer… The…
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Fine or not Fine
A CISO once “joked” to me that he kept his work area so clean and tidy because he didn’t want to get too settled in. In the inevitable event of a breach, he would be the scapegoat and be walked out the door. He didn’t want to have too much to carry on his walk…
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Cyber Attack Insurance – The Golden Bullet
You know what would really suck? Losing all of our data to a cyber attack! I know, let’s buy cyber attack insurance to protect ourselves – Easy! Does anything about this seem wrong to you? It should. Cyber Attack Insurance alone without the proper Cyber Awareness, Governance, and systems will simply make you a more…
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Is Cyber Security an IT function?
Short answer- no it isn’t! Would you ask your accounts payable department to audit your outgoing payments? Of course not – it would defeat the purpose. Just like most aspects of the modern business world, IT has a huge role to play in the implementation of a Cyber strategy. BUT your cyber security strategy needs…
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But where’s my data?
To cloud or not to cloud? – the ultimate question it seems. “Cloud” isn’t new, yet there’s still a lot of apprehension and confusion about what it means. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, O365, G-Suite, Public Cloud, Private Cloud….There’s a huge list of acronyms, catch phrases and vendors that take part in the cloud ecosystem, so it’s…
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So Repetitive!
“It takes so long to do this, there are so many steps!” (Everyone, circa every day) We all have those processes that are fundamental to business but are time-consuming, convoluted and fraught with risks of human error…. if only you could just stop doing them… Solving real-world problems using process automation is one of the…
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Tech in Architecture and Interior Design
Architecture and Interior Design get the tick when it comes to technological enhancements over the past few years, especially through IoT. However, the big focus has been on customer-impact tech, such as Virtual Reality and 3D modelling. This tech is exciting and ground-breaking, but is that all tech can offer? I know, of course, we…
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Let’s talk data
We hear it all the time… “my data is boring, nobody wants to steal it!”. We get it, your purchase history and account information is just a bunch of numbers – there’s no confidential bank information or passwords in there. That, and the pictures of your cat…. let’s not go there…. But think about this……
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Don’t be afraid to challenge the status quo
‘Doing business’ does not have to include navigating a quagmire of online subscriptions to different applications, or running up 5 different programs just to complete keep systems in order. It’s time to think bigger and think better. Integration-based technologies have revolutionised the way companies see business operations. Allowing them to focus on bringing money in…
