All the important announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2018
Microsoft held their big conference recently; here is what you need to know. Microsoft recently held their major conference, in which they laid out the company’s direction for the next 12 months and showed off some fancy new products and services that will make your working life easier.
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How to leverage Microsoft 365 without the headaches
Because your business is too important to leave your core processes to chance Since it was released in 2011, Microsoft’s Office 365 has grown to 60 million active users. Office 365 has proved a brilliant option for small businesses that are just looking for the great productivity tools they love that are kept up to date, but are not necessarily looking for anything too complex in their business IT.
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Five Reasons why we LOVE Microsoft 365... and why you should too
Microsoft's new enterprise business packages are helping to change the way we work. Technology has opened us up to all sorts of exciting and interesting new ways of conducting our working lives. For the most part, these have allowed us to be more productive, particularly on the go.
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6 Tips for working from home effectively
Working from home is great. It allows you an opportunity to get away from some of the distractions of a busy office and complete tasks in a relaxing environment. In fact, it is so great that data from the ONS shows that 4.2 million people worked remotely in 2015, and that number is only expected to rise.
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5 ways to improve your cyber security
2017 was a bad year for cyber security. With WannaCry causing troubles in the NHS, Equifax losing customer data and NotPetya affecting companies such as Maersk and FedEx. With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, cyber-security is again at the forefront of our consciousness. This time because the consequences of data breaches have increased exponentially.
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Google is tracking your location, even when you ask it not to...
Google is tracking user locations even after they have opted out; it has emerged.
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New research reveals your fax machine is dangerous!
Take a look around your office. Depending on where you work there could be all manner of potentially dangerous items lying around. The chances are though, you would never have considered the humble office fax machine to be one of them.
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Cloud computing just keeps on performing
For those of you that follow the news at all, you will no doubt have heard a lot of stories about Facebook. Unfortunately for the world’s most used social network, very few of these stories could be considered positive. From fake news swaying elections, to the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposing how reckless Facebook can be with our data, there’s been little to shout about over at the social network.
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STATEMENT REGARDING "SPECTRE" AND "MELTDOWN" VULNERABILITIES
On 3/1/2018 (last week) news broke in the media of two security vulnerabilities which will impact almost every computing device in active use today. Named “Spectre” and “Meltdown”, the vulnerabilities arise because of design flaws in CPUs from Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and ARM which have existed for decades – and they’re important because they allow access to information in memory that should be out of reach, whether that’s passwords, keys or other data.
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5 Steps to get your business GDPR ready
Unsure how to best protect your business against threats. Read our GDPR White Paper for the facts >> Like it or not, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming, and it will affect your business. Make sure your business is ready before the May 2018 deadline. The EU’s GDPR is coming in May 2018 and it will affect all sorts of organisations in the UK, even despite Brexit. In our last article, we discussed the fines that face businesses that fail to comply with GDPR when it comes into force next year. Based on the size of the figures, it is so important that you ensure your business is ready to comply with GDPR. Being unaware is not an excuse. To help you out, we at entrustIT have put together this handy guide of five important steps your business can take to get yourself ready for next May.
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