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You have a business problem. You know IT could help you solve it. But you don’t know where to begin. Have you ever been in that position?
The starting point is often to think about whether someone has already invented a solution that you could purchase and configure for your needs. These are often referred to as ‘off-the-shelf’ or ‘third-party’ solutions.
Online accounting packages are a good example. Every business from the smallest to the biggest needs to understand its income and expenditure. Type “Online accounting software” into any search engine and you will see that there is a lot of competition for your business.
For some organisations, the geographical location of cloud data has proven an impediment to moving their own systems in that ...
On a daily basis now, I am having conversations with worried managers and directors regarding cyber security. The constant bo...
A management view of IT often follows the analogy about legislation and sausages: you want the tasty outcome, but it’s ...
Over the past 6 months, a type of email fraud has come to the fore which has started to provoke concern …. and rightly...
The threat of cyber crime is a very real one. However, there is a big difference between being sufficiently concerned that you take action and being so terrified that you behave irrationally or do nothing at all.
The problem with fear is that it sometimes drives the wrong behaviour. Faced with a predator, our instinct can be flight rather than fight. Cyber crime is not a challenge from which to run away or bury our heads in the sand and hope the aggressor picks on someone else.
We all know what bank robbers and burglars do. Understanding their common tools and techniques helps us to design appropriate defence mechanisms. Cyber crime is no different. Recognising the different tricks of the trade empowers us to implement the cyber equivalent of locking the door or fitting an alarm.
How many of the following 8 common tactics employed by cyber criminals have you heard of?
Please be aware that a new infection technique is doing the rounds; targeting Google Chrome users. The “font wasn&rsquo...
Our monitoring systems indicate the Peterborough Core fibre network was down from 19:30 until around 01:30 overnight. The (no...
