“A cybercriminal only has to be lucky once, while a defender has to be lucky every minute of every day.” – Combating Ransomware – A Comprehensive Framework for Action: Key Recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force. The message we hear from...
What is ‘Shadow IT’? Shadow IT refers to the various web tools informally in use within most organisations. These tools are often chosen without reference to IT or to management in general. They are often used for all the very best reasons. Your colleagues...
Learn why use of Teams is growing at lightspeed: In this webinar we looked at what new capabilities are driving increased usage. We then discussed which are most applicable to kiwi businesses, to help shortcut your learning on which you can apply to your...
Some emails are more than just bad news No one likes bad news! But sometimes it can’t be helped. Sometimes it sneaks up on you. One of the most common ransomware attacks is through a compromised attachment in an email. It’s easy to say “only open stuff you expect” but...
Data Leak Protection (DLP) is the name of several policies in Office 365, setting up what data can, and can’t be, shared and with whom. Imagine being able to automatically identify private information like passport numbers, Health IDs or bank account details and...
This sounds like a nightmare that could never happen. US soldiers have been putting sensitive information online in non-secure third party websites. It defies belief, yet we’re reading that it happened. The story popped up on ‘Gizmodo’ . It is alleged that US Soldiers...
Trans-Tasman outages On the 15th June Microsoft experienced issues across Australia and New Zealand with Teams calling. For Those of us using Microsoft Teams as our phone system, they stopped working. We experienced issues with inbound and outbound calls. The...
Password Vaults and You With more and more websites necessary for our everyday activities, it’s getting harder and harder to manage passwords. By now, you will know not to write passwords on post-it notes and paste them on your screen. It’s not uncommon...
Good practice last year isn’t good enough anymore. Even cyber-insurance providers are getting more selective before accepting cover, or worse, before paying claims. With the number of claims skyrocketing insurers are increasingly asking, “What did you do...
Finding the best deal This news scared me! I’m always looking for slimmer, lighter and more powerful phone chargers. As someone who likes to travel light, but be ready for anything, I always have an eye out for small chargers that can power not just my phone,...
