In this final part of our what we do series we explain about a client for whom there is no room for error on the day so critical checks have to be carried out.  Overview  One of our clients is a big venue hosting huge volumes of the public, so their systems are required to […]

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An oversimplification of the sport of Golf would be to say that the aim of golf is to play as little golf as possible while attaining the goal, fewer hits are preferable and the ultimate would be a hole in one. In this sense computer anti-virus software is similar, you want to stay protected from […]

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SharePoint – A powerful collaboration tool Historically, Microsoft’s suite of Office programs revolved around the basic apps, Word, Excel and such, but now in a ever more connected world, collaboration and team efforts take centre stage in efficient and productive business. What was needed was a central area to exchange information and help people work […]

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Stop feeding the machine. You may have heard a lot about A.I. recently, as lots of money is being thrown at large A.I. projects to explore the space and open new possibilities with computing. While at the moment it seems like a solution looking for a problem, in time it could prove to have great […]

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Patch Tuesday, also known as Update Tuesday refers to the established policy set by Microsoft and several other large software providers to push quality and security updates and fixes to their applications and programs. Since 2003 Microsoft have been releasing important updates on the second Tuesday of every month in order to address issues. Very […]

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Nothing is true, everything is a scam. While this is not terrible advice for the internet and life generally, in this case I am referring to electronic mail. Given the negligible cost of sending email and its ability to target millions, it is of course the perfect tool to trick, scam, steal and be downright […]

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As technology evolves, we find ourselves upgrading our gadgets and devices more frequently. Whether it’s a new laptop, smartphone, or external hard drive, the old ones often end up collecting dust in a drawer. But what about the sensitive data stored on those old hard drives? How can we ensure that our personal information doesn’t […]

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Image By Microsoft Designer via CoPilot ( AKA Copiplot ) What follows is an AI generated piece by Microsoft CoPilot about CoPilot. AI is becoming more effective every day, but as you might have spotted in the image, it isn’t always perfect. Microsoft Copilot is an AI assistant developed by Microsoft. It’s designed to be […]

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Welcome back once again for part 3 of Defence in Depth. The final layer of protection is the full endpoint (Local PC) backup. You can have all the protection in the world for your cloud environment however lots of important business critical data can and often is stored locally, however what happens when your computer […]

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