Category: Interesting

February 26, 2024

What is DORA, and how will it affect your business?

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation that entered into force on 16 January 2023 and will apply as of 17 January 2025. Following on to a long list of international regulations, DORA aims to help strengthen digital resiliency especially for the financial sector. What does DORA cover? As is made obvious […]

February 16, 2024

Arcserve Cloud Services announces End of Life

In a surprising move that has left many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in a lurch, Arcserve, a renowned developer of storage and data protection software, has announced the...

February 12, 2024

Customer Data – A New Cybersecurity Focus

The issues surrounding cybersecurity have been a constantly reiterated theme. This included discussions of ransomware, of maintaining your business continuity, and of managing to...

February 5, 2024

Data retention and deletion – a key concern

Government regulation continues to mount regarding the future of data retention and deletion, a key aspect in national and international legislation. At the same time,...

January 29, 2024

Data Protection Day 2024

This weekend was Data Protection Day for the year 2024. On 26 April 2006 the Council of Europe decided to launch a Data Protection Day to be celebrated each year on 28 January....

June 9, 2021

Even Microsoft Exchange server can become a weak point in your data security

Did you know that over 30,000 websites are hacked every day? Internet’s attendance in our daily lives has become even more common in the last two years. COVID-19 has forced...

February 14, 2020

How cybercriminals take over your email account

Researchers from Barracuda and UC Berkeley, conducting a large-scale analysis of email account takeover and the timeline of attacks, recently highlighted the behaviors hackers are...

January 31, 2020

Moving Forward: 7 Tips for a Successful Practice Data Migration

Accounting practice management systems are coming of age. Early products for accounting firms came to market before the advent of cloud computing. Many were built on databases and...

December 19, 2019

Hackers go phishing for the holidays

It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s busy – at work and at home. That includes cybercriminals, too. In fact, the holiday season is when busy, distracted people tend to...

December 5, 2019

Top 5 Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Predictions for 2020

We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this post....

November 15, 2019

Avoiding legacy technology stagnation – the importance of staying refreshed

In today’s hyper-competitive world, everything needs to be done faster, despite greater constraints and tighter budgets. So, it’s no wonder that when organisations face the...

November 13, 2019

Fear of cloud migration is holding back some IT leaders

Over three-quarters of IT leaders believe in moving Financial and Human Capital Management applications to the cloud, according to a new report. Computing Research found that 77...

November 8, 2019

Microsoft Teams gets private channels, email integration with Outlook

Microsoft’s work stream collaboration platform is getting a slew of updates, including the long-awaited private channels and new IT admin controls. Microsoft Teams users can now...

October 31, 2019

Microsoft Teams gains new file and sharing experience throughout Microsoft 365

It’s now easier to share and organize your files in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft 365 has several new experiences, including improvements to how files and sharing are handled...

October 30, 2019

Migrating Saperion to O365?

Do you have emails and documents stored in Saperion DMS or ELM? Are you using shortcutting features, replacing the original emails in the users’ mailboxes with so called...

October 25, 2019

Exchange Online vs. Exchange Server: Which is the better option for you?

Exchange Online is now the flagship messaging and collaboration platform included in Microsoft 365. Exchange Server, meanwhile, had been the flagship messaging platform from...

October 15, 2019

What is the Cost of Cybercrimes & Attacks

The word cybercrime is no longer just a word you hear coming from Fortune 500 CEOs anymore. This word has being flashed on every good morning news show and radio channel....

September 26, 2019

What does the SharePoint 2010 end of life mean for users?

SharePoint 2010 will reach end of life (EOL) on October 13, 2020. As Microsoft prepares to sunset the collaboration platform, users need to know what steps to take before extended...

September 20, 2019

7 Crucial Components of Cyber Incident Recovery

Organizations of all sizes are consistently reporting increased numbers of cyber incidents, with data breaches and ransomware infections fast becoming a common occurrence. While...

September 18, 2019

Cloud Failure: Only 29 Percent of SMBs Back Up SaaS Data

While 90 percent of SMBs back up their servers, only 29 percent back up their SaaS application data, according to a recent Kaseya survey of more than 400 SMBs with up to 5,000...