5 Functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Identify: What and who are your key people, assets, data? Protect: How will you limit key cybersecurity incidents? Detect: Can you identify breaches or incidents in a timely fashion? Respond: How will you react to incidents? Do you have plans in place? Recover: Can you recover from a cyber-incident? If Read more

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Why a Firewall Isn’t Enough?

The technology landscape has changed dramatically in the last few years. Cloud adoption and the Covid19 pandemic have moved the network perimeter from company HQ to remote locations. So how are you protecting these remote locations and endpoints? Here’s a few ways we’re doing this for clients: MFA using tools Read more

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Office 365 Backup, Backup, Backup!

Let’s face it the “Cloud” is an important part of IT these days.  It allows organizations to quickly deploy technology that most would not have dreamed of twenty years ago.  One of the biggest cloud success stories is Office 365. Nevertheless with this power comes responsibility on the customer side.  Read more

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5 Reasons Microsoft Teams Is Unlike Most Conferencing Tools

Microsoft Teams is included for free with most Office 365 subscriptions. Most conferencing tools usually require a monthly subscription to unlock features. Teams is tightly integrated into workflows like email (Outlook), file sharing (OneDrive), document management (Sharepoint), and collaboration with tools like chat, video and whiteboarding. It has the ability Read more

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SSD: Make Your Old Computer New Again

The solid-state drive (SSD) has swiftly become the go-to upgrade to breathe new life into an ageing computer, and for good reason too. An SSD swiftly brings an old laptop or desktop up to date with modern machines in just a single step. The price of solid-state memory has fallen Read more

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Could Your Backups Survive A Ransomware Attack?

Ransomware Attacks Aren’t Going Away More and more businesses and organizations are getting stung by ransomware demands. Hospitals, schools, social networks…some days it seems like an epidemic that leaps around arbitrarily, and hackers are raking in millions. Tallied across the word…billions. Ransomware attacks are devious in their simplicity. A user Read more

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