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The Top 10 Benefits of Outsourcing IT for SMEs

In today's fast-paced and technology-driven business environment, small businesses often find themselves facing numerous IT challenges. Managing complex networks, ensuring data security, and keeping up with rapidly evolving technologies can be overwhelming. Fortunately, a remarkable statistic sheds light on a pivotal aspect of modern outsourcing: 90% of companies consider cloud computing as a key enabler in their outsourcing efforts, as reported by Deloitte.

Ransomware Rates Are Still Rising

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, one threat has emerged as a formidable adversary to businesses and organizations worldwide - ransomware. Over the past few years, ransomware attacks have seen an alarming surge, wreaking havoc on companies of all sizes and industries. This malicious form of cybercrime encrypts a victim's data, holding it hostage until a ransom is paid, leaving businesses paralyzed and grappling with devastating consequences.

What is Zero Trust IT and is it the Future?

In today's digital landscape, protecting sensitive data and systems has become increasingly challenging. Cyber threats are growing more sophisticated, and traditional security approaches are proving inadequate. This is where zero-trust solutions come into play. Adopting a "never trust, always verify" approach is going to be the way forward. Zero trust challenges the traditional notion of implicit trust within a network. It focuses on stringent access controls, continuous verification, and contextual factors to ensure secure interactions.

Essential Tips & Solutions for Keeping Keeping Your Inbox Safe

Email is a ubiquitous communication tool that we rely on every day to stay connected with friends, family, and colleagues. However, the rise of phishing attacks has made email security an increasingly urgent concern. In fact, according to a recent report, phishing attacks increased by 62% in 2022, with over 240 million phishing emails sent every day.

Business Problems Technology Solves

Fast and reliable IT is the cornerstone of every modern business, but if technology falls behind or its performance starts to slow down, operations will unavoidably be affected. With the average SME in the Uk suffering from 45 minutes of IT downtime each week the costs, frustration and wasted time can quickly become all too common a problem.

Why is My Business's Internet Slow?

According to a survey from Open Gear, 31% of businesses stated that internet outages cost them more than £1.2 million We live in a world that gives us access to a seemingly endless amount of information at the touch of a button. Whilst this is great, it makes it all the more frustrating when our internet runs slow or not at all. For the average person, this is merely an inconvenience, but internet downtime can be detrimental to a business. Staff are unable to work, data can be lost, security cameras stop working and hybrid teams are unable to collaborate.

The Worst Passwords of 2022... What Can We Learn?

Those that follow our blog know, this is something we enjoy (and cringe at) doing each year. The true strength of passwords has always been overestimated. Unfortunately, passwords are becoming an increasingly significant point of weakness for personal and business security and it's no surprise considering this year's most popular (and worst) password of 2022 is... *sigh*... "password".

Here's How to Stay Cyber-Safe Over Christmas

We can all agree that cyber-criminals are terrible people and the fact that there is a 30% increase in the average number of ransomware attacks in December compared to other months only reinforce this. Whilst everyone else sees Christmas as a time to wind down and spend some time with family, cyber-criminals see Christmas as the perfect opportunity to launch a cyber-attack, and worryingly it is…

Facts About Cyber-Crime That Will Make You Think

Last year we saw the largest rise in cyber-crime rates in history. It’s unfortunate, but cyber-criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are taking full advantage of the increase in technology and remote workers within businesses. Cybercrime rates are rising and the latest facts surrounding cyber-criminals and their recent success only back this.

6 Facts About Cyber-Security You Should Consider

Every day we produce over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, most of which needs to be protected. Whilst more data being transported and created is a positive sign of technological growth within businesses, it has subsequently brought an increase in the rate of cyber-attacks. Cyber-crime is rising, and the latest 2022 cyber-security facts only reinforce this theory. We speak a lot about the importance of cyber-security in these blogs because we understand how crucial protecting your business's data is and know how devastating the consequences can be for companies that don't put the right safeguards in place.