The threats we see on a daily basis include attacks specifically designed to skirt around traditional antivirus defences. Ransomware is a multimillion Pound industry, and before an attacker launches a ransomware campaign they confirm that the AV doesnt see their attack, and makes sure they also exploit widely used applications such as PDF readers […]
Read MoreOne of the benefits of course of being on Office 365, is the rapid release of new features. Microsoft maintain a list of new features, and their expected release date on their roadmap. Many of these are fairly small, however of good news to many of our customers will be the update of mailbox sizes in […]
Read MoreBrexit or no Brexit, the regulations for data protection in the UK change on the 25th of May 2018. The Government has confirmed that the decision to leave the EU will not affect the introduction of the GDPR. So, what is the GDPR and who does it apply to? I could really bore you here […]
Read MoreThere is finally a proper solution to protect against Ransomware! Palo Alto Networks, a 6 year Gartner leader for Enterprise firewalls, have leveraged their expertise and cloud platform to create a class leading endpoint security platform. Traps is an advanced endpoint protection solution that can (and should) replace your current AV. Whilst you may think […]
Read MoreI can’t seem to go to a seminar or a conference or even every other customer meeting without the words ‘Digital Transformation’ being bandied about. So what is Digital Transformation? It seems that different people have different interpretations of what it means. In the business world, I prefer to use the term ‘Digital Business Transformation’ […]
Read MoreJust before I went on holiday (which is now a distant memory) I attended the Veritas #netbackupforum event in the beautiful city of Lisbon. Located in the Marriott hotel, never before have I attended an event where the main auditorium was in a converted car park underneath the building!! What a great venue and idea […]
Read MoreVeritas Vision 2017 More than a week has come and gone since Veritas Vision in the amazing City of Las Vegas. On a somewhat sombre note my thoughts go out anyone caught up in the attack earlier this week. It so easily could have been me or anyone else I was with only a week before. […]
Read MoreThere has been a lot of information in the news, and a lot of hysteria around the Meltdown and Spectre in relation to hardware exploits. First of all, this is different from all other vulnerabilities in that it is hardware with the issue. It means hardware from Intel, AMD, ARM and others are affected. It […]
Read MoreThere is a lot of noise around GDPR. Every vendor has a product or a suite of products aimed at helping with compliance. There is no silver bullet. Indeed, much of GDPR isn’t a technology based problem. We know that many organisations already have an investment in Office 365 and aren’t aware that it has many features […]
Read MoreSo the latest with the Spectre/Meltdown disaster is that Microsoft have now released a patch to stop the patch that Intel released to mitigate the Spectre/Meltdown shenanigans Intel released a fix first which some deployed and some didn’t. It wasn’t straight forward as it relied on the AV providers approving it which was met with […]
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