Businesses are seeing an increase in the number of malicious emails being received on a daily basis, with it being estimated that nearly half of all emails received are now spam. Email is an effective method of cyber attackers reaching your end users and infecting your network with ransomware. How do phishing scams work? Phishing… Read More
Solid State Drives
I’ve recently been spending some time trying to speed up my PC. As usual over time, performance seemed to have become a bit sluggish, so a disk and registry clean-up, un-install session and a defrag was in order. All done but I’m still not happy! This machine should be flying – so whats going wrong?… Read More
Windows 10 – First look and thoughts
It seems like Microsoft with Windows 10 are finally recognising that desktop computing is still alive and kicking; similarities to the Windows 7 desktop have been resurrected with some great improvements. However users aren’t going to adopt the new operating system just because they’ve brought features back from 10 years ago!! They’re trying to appeal… Read More
Are you ready for GDPR Compliance by May 2018?
Most companies hold personal information in the form of employee or customer personal records and therefore must ensure they are compliant with the Data Protection Act. For those organisations wishing to trade with the European Union, they should be getting ready to also comply with the GDPR. GDPR breaches will incur fines of up to… Read More
Vendor Audits – Compliance or Revenue?
Ten years ago vendor audits were few and far between, focus being mainly on the large enterprise customers with huge IT teams, purchasing departments and compliancy procedures; but things are changing… Whether it’s the clever license tracking, online registrations or just lower revenues that are pushing vendors in this direction, it’s definitely here to stay… Read More
Should I lease my ICT equipment?
Absolutely Yes! 85% of all FTSE 100 companies and 8 out of 10 accounting companpies all lease their ICT infrastructure even though they can well afford to buy it all outright for cash out of their back pocket!! This is because it’s always better to have assets that are employed in revenue generation for the… Read More
Four steps to preventing Cyber Security
Four Steps to Preventing Cyber Security Threats in your Manufacturing Business Over the last ten years, Cyber Security threats have increasingly become a major problem for all organisations. Rather worryingly, the manufacturing sector is now reported to one of the most frequently hacked industries, second only to healthcare. i Whilst some businesses plan to make… Read More
5 steps to creating a high performing IT team
Every business wants to gain an advantage against competitors and improve their response times to complete projects and when issues occur. The best way to achieve this is by creating a high performing team with the skills and expertise to work efficiently on a range of requirements. Here are some ways that you can maximise… Read More
Who do you choose for those AV Solution Projects, AV or IT providers?
Intuitive audio visual solutions will increase the productivity and creativity of your company. However there is an influx of IT resellers claiming to be AV solutions providers. There are key differences between the mind-set of an IT reseller and an audio visual solutions provider. Many aspects of the Audio Visual Solution are not driven by… Read More
Microsoft helping hands are free….only don’t tell the boss!
Ever heard of Microsoft Solution Accelerators? Damn handy little things they are!! Even though you’ve been implementing Microsoft infrastructures for years and have all the accreditations, there’s always a few ‘niggles’ on them key rollout projects that let the side down. The only chink in your amour that the IT Director stumbles across whilst chatting… Read More