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September 6, 2019

How to Prevent Microsoft 365 Account Lockouts

Microsoft 365 lockouts are a major employee productivity issue – here are tips and tricks to stop account lockouts. Active Directory account lockouts caused by brute force attacks on Microsoft 365 are one of the top reported issues for Microsoft 365 customers. According to Microsoft, there are more than 300 million fraudulent sign-in attempts...

August 30, 2019

Top 7 benefits of Sharepoint for your business

The benefits of SharePoint are endless. Here are the top 7 reasons why you should use SharePoint for your business. The results of a recent study found that businesses that...

August 20, 2019

The Basic Tasks For A Solid Disaster Recovery Plan

There are two critical components of all disaster recovery (DR) plans: backup and recovery. Backup lays the foundation of all DR plans and the recovery aspect determines how...

August 12, 2019

Is Exchange Online Threatened by Ransomware?

The question of whether ransomware could infect and encrypt an Exchange Online mailbox raised by Michael Van Horenbeeck is fair. Although no reports exist of such an infection,...

August 7, 2019

Emerging threats to cloud-based business

Cybercrime hasn’t been stopped by the cloud It’s no secret that collaboration is the bedrock of business. In fact, a Stanford University study demonstrated that merely...

August 2, 2019

5 reasons why businesses continue to see the value of SharePoint

Though Microsoft has added new features to Microsoft 365 — replacing some SharePoint functions — many businesses still choose to cling to the legacy system. Despite...

July 30, 2019

Organisations still struggle with GDPR compliance

UK businesses struggle to manage data access requests; many would rather pay breach penalty than beef up data security More than 60 percent of UK businesses have seen a spike in...

July 26, 2019

5 Myths About Email Security Busted

Email is one of the most imperative things for any organisation. Over the years this form of communication has evolved significantly and today, one of the most essential forms of...

June 26, 2019

6 Common Cloud Migration Challenges (And How to Overcome Them)

Is your business considering moving to the cloud? Cloud computing has exploded over the past decade as the number of cloud providers and solutions continues to increase. Studies...

June 21, 2019

Is Cloud Migration Better For Cybersecurity in the Long Term?

This morning, endpoint security and device-to-cloud cybersecurity provider McAfee released their “Cloud and Risk Adoption Report.” This report explores the business process...

June 19, 2019

6 Lessons Learned During a Real-World Azure Migration

Paul Schnackenburg walks through an Azure migration and implementation of public cloud computing for a small business IT infrastructure, and shares what lessons were learned along...

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,...

June 12, 2019

Migration options: Getting from Exchange on-prem to Microsoft 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 31, 2019

Microsoft warns of a new WannaCry – be prepared!

Request a demo now! Microsoft released fixes for a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services...

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...