‘Pingdemic’ protection: your emergency IT survival kit
In the latest wave of challenges causing businesses to pivot, we have the ‘pingdemic’, with individuals being asked to self-isolate after contact with a positive COVID-19 case. True, the government is proposing a major overhaul to these rules on 16 August 2021, but the question is whether you will be changing your workplace rules too? […]
Legalese ransomware that makes you pause…
When checking for potential cyber threats and ransomware, many teams are gaining confidence that they’re avoiding the common pitfalls. Things like looking for spelling mistakes, checking the ‘sent from’ email address, hovering over links, and even just sense checking yourself that you know the sender, are all good steps; but what about emails threatening legal […]
Cybersecurity Round Up March 2021
March has been recorded as a month with lower-than-average records leaked per data breach, but that’s in no way reassuring. In fact, there was an exceptionally high number of breaches – 151 – during the month, and the reason that there were lower data record numbers recorded was in fact because of a surprisingly high […]
Cybersecurity Round Up February 2021
In one of the worst months on record for data breaches, more than 2.3 billion records were recorded as breached in February 2021, as successful ransomware attacks accelerated. Here’s what you need to know in our February cybersecurity recap: Hacker attempts to poison water supply… At the beginning of February, a hacker gained control of […]
What does your future office look like?
As we finally receive news of the four-stage exit from lockdown, attentions in the workplace naturally turn to the ‘future’ of work. Will employees be desperate for a return to the office and the much-missed human collaboration, or have they had a taste of the ‘good life’ and hope to continue working the majority of […]
Top tips to keep yourself safe using email
Email is one of the most important communication tools for businesses, so here are our top tips to stay safe…
Data Privacy Day – 28 January
Data Privacy Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of privacy in all of our lives…
Cybersecurity Round Up December 2020
Here are the top stories from December that you might have missed amidst all the festive cheer…
Why Cyber Liability Insurance is a must!
It’s likely that every business will experience at least one cyberattack in some form during their lifetime…