Category: Interesting

June 17, 2019

Cloud migration: A step-by-step guide

In this guest post, Paul Mercina, director of product management, at datacentre hardware and maintenance provider ParkPlace Technologies offers a step-by-step guide about how, what and when to move to the cloud. The benefits of using cloud are multiple, but the process of migrating a company’s IT systems off-premise (while simultaneously...

June 12, 2019

Migration options: Getting from Exchange on-prem to Office 365

As the move to the cloud continues, it’s important to understand the different strategies that are available to organizations that need to move their organization mailboxes to...

June 7, 2019

Enterprises not seeing total fulfilment with cloud strategies – but hybrid remains the way to go

For enterprises looking to migrate to the cloud, with sprawling workloads and data, it can be a long, arduous journey. According to a new survey, more than two thirds of large...

May 29, 2019

Cyber Attacks Increase by 59%, Is Your Small Business Safe?

The SiteLock 2019 Website Security Report says these criminals now focus on quieter attacks. But that doesn’t mean they have decreased. Because attacks increased by 59% for...

May 24, 2019

Ransomware attack on Baltimore continues to hold the city hostage

Earlier this month, hackers successfully deployed a piece of ransomware that, for about two weeks now, has effectively shut down a range of key public services in the city of...

May 17, 2019

Microsoft Warns Of A ‘New Wannacry’: Newly Discovered ‘Wormable’ Exploit In The Wild

Good News for organized crime, and other criminal, system attackers: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has coughed up another furball of coding incompetence (aka...

May 15, 2019

Microsoft SharePoint servers are under attack

Canadian and Saudi cybersecurity agencies warn of attacks that have been going on for at least two weeks. Hacker groups are attacking Microsoft SharePoint servers to exploit a...

May 7, 2019

How Tech Culture Has Changed Since The GDPR

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the GDPR which went into effect on 25 May 2018, we can now review the benefits and pitfalls of the EU’s General Data Protection...

May 3, 2019

How to get data destruction right under GDPR

When your business last disposed of its computers, were you sure all the data stored on them was safely and securely destroyed? Businesses now collect and store massive quantities...

April 26, 2019

Reeling us in: How phishing email scams keep getting smarter

Open your preferred email client. Now hit “page down” three times. Chances are one of the messages that just scrolled past you is a phishing email, a message that’s intended...

April 17, 2019

The Cybersecurity Threat Of GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represented a new phase in data security and EU regulators’ approach to it. Designed to safeguard consumers with greater...

April 12, 2019

A quarter of phishing emails bypass Office 365 security

Cloud-based email is leaving enterprises vulnerable to phishing attacks capable of giving cyber criminals access to a wide range of critical data, warn security researchers A...

April 9, 2019

GDPR: Do You Know if Your Organization Needs to Comply?

Many have heard tidbits about the acronym “GDPR,” but do not understand the regulation or feel that it doesn’t apply to their organization since it is a European Union law....

March 29, 2019

Security and Privacy are the Biggest Cloud Data Migration Challenges

According to new research by data virtualization provider Denodo, security and privacy are the biggest cloud data migration challenges. The Denodo Global Cloud Survey 2019 is the...

March 27, 2019

Five Tech Trends Driving Cybersecurity In 2019

When industry analyst Gartner listed its top 10 technology trends for 2019, one of the primary themes that stood out was cybersecurity. Things continue to move fast on both sides...

March 22, 2019

These are the 12 most common phishing email subject lines cyber criminals use to fool you

Analysis of over 360,000 phishing emails reveals some common themes in phoney emails sent to businesses. Don’t get caught out by these ones. The most common subject lines...

March 13, 2019

Ransomware, the reoccurring revenue model for cybercriminals

Ransomware will make even the most experienced IT professional shiver.. Let’s say you woke up feeling refreshed and have a perfect commute into work, Life is good then when you...

March 8, 2019

Microsoft Security reports a massive increase in malicious phishing scams

Microsoft’s Security team analyzes more than 6.5 trillion security signals a day to identify trends that could affect the digital landscape that we all live in. After scanning...

March 6, 2019

All Roads Lead to Team Collaboration – You Ready?

Your decision on tool choice needs to account for the baseline capabilities plus so much more, as UC analyst Diane Myers shares in our No Jitter On Air podcast. As recently as...

February 26, 2019

5 business benefits of using the Cloud

Cloud technology, it’s anything but fluffy! In fact, there are some fantastic benefits for getting down with ‘the cloud’ in your business. Here are the five...