Category: Interesting

December 20, 2017

The evolution of ransomware: Get ready for more advanced social engineering tactics

Prepare your company for more sophisticated, complex, and devastating ransomware attacks in 2018, says Avecto COO Andrew Avanessian. Ransomware became a massive nuisance for enterprises, SMBs, and consumers in 2017—and that threat is not going anywhere in the coming year. TechRepublic’s Dan Patterson spoke with Avecto’s COO Andrew...

December 18, 2017

1.4 Billion Clear Text Credentials Discovered in a Single Database

A Massive Resource for Cybercriminals Makes it Easy to Access Billions of Credentials. Now even unsophisticated and newbie hackers can access the largest trove ever of sensitive...

December 13, 2017

Phishers Are Upping Their Game. So Should You.

Not long ago, phishing attacks were fairly easy for the average Internet user to spot: Full of grammatical and spelling errors, and linking to phony bank or email logins at...

December 11, 2017

Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection launches for SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive

Microsoft has launched Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. Microsoft 365 ATP is meant to help organizations stay secure...

December 6, 2017

Encryption’s role in GDPR compliance and cloud data security

It has never been more important to review all IT security practices and avoid becoming a statistic Security of data in the cloud is a hot topic, especially with so many data...

November 30, 2017

Teams Won’t Replace Email but It Can Reduce Email Traffic

The Notion that Teams Will Replace Email Given its progress since its launch in November 2016 and Microsoft’s focus on Teams as the “hubwork for teamwork within Microsoft...

November 24, 2017

GDPR – The deep cleanse of your customer database

Would you rather have one Lamborghini or three Ford Fiestas? It’s all about quality over quantity; a well known concept that can often be overlooked in sales and marketing....

November 21, 2017

Which Microsoft 365 Platform Is Right for Your Business?

Microsoft has four plans that can be right for several different kinds of businesses. See which one could be right for yours. Microsoft has four main Office products for business...

November 14, 2017

How to encrypt email

If you need to send a password, bank details or other sensitive information, you should really use an encrypted service. Here’s how to send encrypted emails to anyone on any...

November 10, 2017

What Features to Expect in SharePoint 2019?

On September 26, 2017, Microsoft unveiled SharePoint 2019’s development plan via blog post which is going on in full swing. The company briefed about the progress in the...

November 8, 2017

Understanding Microsoft 365

In this post, I’ll discuss one of the hottest subjects that my customers want to learn more about; Microsoft 365. Complete User Management What is the function of It when it...

November 3, 2017

Microsoft commercial cloud, Azure vs. Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure vs. AWS is a fun comparison, but Microsoft’s commercial cloud is more akin to Oracle and Salesforce. One storyline following earnings from Microsoft and...

October 27, 2017

Moving to cloud-based email? Three reasons to think twice

Despite the hype, cloud-based email is far from perfect because it can introduce significant vulnerabilities and risk into your organisation. There’s a good reason that so many...

October 24, 2017

Data recovery in the age of ransomware

With recent large-scale attacks dominating headlines, particularly WannaCry and Petya, ransomware is expected to cost over $5 billion in damages in 2017 according to Cybersecruity...

October 19, 2017

Microsoft Makes Major Changes More Transparent for Microsoft 365

Relief on the Horizon On October 11, Microsoft released message MC123292 to Microsoft 365 tenant administrators to tell them that they plan to improve the way they communicate...

October 17, 2017

Businesses love Microsoft 365, but ransomware is holding them back

Almost every organisation out there is afraid of being hit by ransomware. Businesses in the EMEA region re increasingly using Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 solutions, but they’re...

October 13, 2017

New SharePoint features: metadata magic, connected site families

At Ignite 2017, Microsoft announced major capabilities to organize and manage information in SharePoint lists and libraries — and connect related sites using the new Hub site....

October 11, 2017

Office 2007 reaches end of the road as Microsoft urges users to upgrade

Au revoir Office 2007! Microsoft has officially announced that it is retiring Office 2007. By this it means the software giant will no longer provide support for the software from...

October 9, 2017

Half of decision makers don’t know where their physical data is

State laws will dictate where businesses keep their data, report claims. A worrying amount of businesses aren’t fully aware of where their data storage is physically...

October 4, 2017

Five challenges of cloud migration

The migraines of migration Enterprises have taken fondly to the cloud for its scalability, cost-efficiency and flexibility. According to a Forrester Research survey consisting of...