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Cyber Essentials 101: Secure Configuration February 27, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security

This is the next article in our Cyber Essentials 101 series, if you haven’t yet read the first part covering why you should consider Cyber Essentials and how to answer the initial questions about your organisation you can find it here. Computers and cloud services often aren’t secure on default installation or setup. An out-of-the-box set-up can often include an administrative account with a standard, publicly known, default password, one or more unnecessary user accounts…

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Cyber Essentials 101: Insurance February 6, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security

This is the third article in our Cyber Essentials 101 series, if you haven’t yet read the first part covering why you should consider Cyber Essentials and how to answer the initial questions about your organisation you can find it here. If you want to use the free insurance then you’ll need to answer all the questions in this section. The answers to these questions won’t affect the result of your Cyber Essentials assessment. It’s…

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Cyber Essentials 101: Scope of Assessment January 28, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security

This is the second article in our Cyber Essentials 101 series, if you haven’t yet read the first part covering why you should consider Cyber Essentials and how to answer the initial questions about your organisation you can find it here. Scope of Assessment This is where you outline what parts of your business you want your Cyber Essentials certification to cover. The scope should be either the whole organisation or an organisational sub-set –…

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Cloud 101: The Final Takeaways & The Full White Paper August 29, 2024 – Posted in: Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, IT Support

This is the final article in our Cloud 101 series. There are a few key items that make a significant difference to your risk of getting breached. The first is: factor in security whenever you are thinking about your IT. When you are considering new software, think about where your data might be being held and by who. Any time you talk to your IT Company about setting something up or buying a piece of…

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Cybersecurity 101: The Final Takeaways & The Full White Paper February 22, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

This is the final article in our Cybersecurity 101 series. There are a few key items that make a significant difference to your risk of getting breached. The first is: factor in security whenever you are thinking about your IT. When you are considering new software, think about where your data might be being held and by who. Any time you talk to your IT Company about setting something up or buying a piece of…

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Cybersecurity 101: Protecting Yourself When an Attack Comes Part 2 February 9, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

Limiting What an Attacker Can Do Once They Get In There is a principle in cybersecurity called the Principle of Least Privilege it means that everyone has access to only what they need in order to do their job. Even the CEO. It’s not about trusting your staff, it’s about minimising what a malicious actor can do if they manage to steal someone’s logins. If you think about it like securing a building, you build…

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Cybersecurity 101: Protecting Yourself When an Attack Comes – Part 1 January 11, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

Our last Cybersecurity 101 article outlined the basics of protecting yourself from malicious actors. Whatever steps you take, you still need to assume that at some point someone who shouldn’t will get in. This article covers the steps and solutions that help protect you when an attack lands. STOPPING MALWARE ON YOUR COMPUTERS You must have an anti-virus solution on your computer. An anti-virus is a piece of software that scans your computer for malicious…

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Cybersecurity 101: Protecting Yourself by Stopping Malicious Actors November 29, 2023 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

There are multiple methods for protecting yourself from cybercrime, the challenge is achieving a realistic balance between: Security Accessibility of data Cost to the business You could require an iris scan just to get into the office and run everything on an isolated network that required people to use a separate device to access company data from the one they use to access the internet and their emails. You could put in place in depth…

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Cybersecurity 101: Types of Cyber Attack October 31, 2023 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

In the most basic sense the broad term malware means mal (bad) ware (software). There are distinctions between a virus that modifies or deletes data and worms that simply self-replicate to overload a system, or trojans that get in and create a back door into a system. We won’t go into too much detail here about the technical differences – it isn’t relevant to most business owners. What is important to consider though is the…

Cyber Essentials 101: Secure Configuration February 27, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security

Cyber Essentials 101: Insurance February 6, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security

Cyber Essentials 101: Scope of Assessment January 28, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security

Cloud 101: The Final Takeaways & The Full White Paper August 29, 2024 – Posted in: Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, IT Support

Cybersecurity 101: The Final Takeaways & The Full White Paper February 22, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

Cybersecurity 101: Protecting Yourself When an Attack Comes Part 2 February 9, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

Cybersecurity 101: Protecting Yourself When an Attack Comes – Part 1 January 11, 2024 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

Cybersecurity 101: Protecting Yourself by Stopping Malicious Actors November 29, 2023 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

Cybersecurity 101: What Does the Law Say? November 8, 2023 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

Cybersecurity 101: Types of Cyber Attack October 31, 2023 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support