Microsoft has added new applications to their Office 365 platform in a drive to help you become more productive and to assist in helping you close sales leads.Microsoft To-Do As the name suggests, this is Microsoft's attempt at a task management app - like 'ToDoist' and 'Google Tasks' for those who use them. Not to [...]
Most of us in the IT industry are constantly being reminded that the 'Internet of Things' is the next big thing. It is a concept that is somewhat perplexing for us IT people and no doubt more confusing for the wider public. We explored what the term means in a recent blog article essentially it is a [...]
What was once a couple of physical doors that kept your office safe, is now a multitude of virtual doors that you can’t control. For example, in the case of Spear Phishing emails criminals are targeting you as an individual, as opposed to a general attack on an organisation, and hackers might target you in exactly [...]
For those of us in the IT industry the words 'BT' and 'Openreach' usually cause a bit of a groan coupled with an all too familiar expectation of poor service with very little accountability. The division of BT responsible for installing and maintaining the network which powers the vast majority of our phone and internet infrastructure has [...]
Security experts are warning businesses of a dangerous new virus, based on the Locky ransomware, named Klepto Zepto. The Zepto malware has been carried in nearly 140,000 spam messages sent over four days last week. The ransomware appears to have Locky’s capabilities which could make it one of the more dangerous encryption lockers in circulation. [...]
As the dust settles on the Brexit vote, and politicians and party members decide who should be in charge of triggering Article 50, business leaders are left thinking ‘what happens now?’ Many organisations have already been affected by the EU referendum, both in the run up as uncertainty forced decisions and programmes to be put [...]
PowerApps is a very dramatic sounding name isn't it? So what are they? Well they are Microsoft's attempt to help drive an explosion of bespoke workplace applications that connect to the stuff we store in the cloud. To understand PowerApps it is probably worth clarifying what Microsoft considers an 'App' to be - as it [...]
Companies today face an unprecedented number of exposures. The frequency and severity of cyber-attacks presents an ever growing threat, and reliance on a complex network of technology and supply chains is expanding. Both trends leave businesses susceptible to a variety of existing and emerging risks. Managing these risks by developing a business continuity strategy is [...]
Is cyber security on the agenda in your boardroom? In the most recent Cyber Governance Health Check it was found that 33% of boards have ‘clearly set and understood their appetite for cyber risk’, up 18% from 2014. However, on average only 54% of boardrooms ‘hear about cyber security twice a year’ – or when [...]
Productivity apps are all the rage at the moment, although – as we said in our previous blog – should not be considered a 'magic bullet' to organising your schedule or curing procrastination. Microsoft, who have produced arguably the most well-known and utilised productivity app of all time - Microsoft Outlook - are getting in [...]
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