Ready to make this a wildly successful year for your business?
To shake off the memories of 2020, and focus on increasing sales and profitability? Excellent.
A great place to start is helping you and your team to get more done in less time.
We’ve pulled together a productivity super guide, looking at setting goals, collaboration, and communication. And of course it lists our most highly recommended productivity tools.
Download your guide instantly.
All business owners and managers hate it when their staff’s productivity goes down.
Bad IT is often used as an excuse to start talking and stop working! So, now’s the time to make sure it can’t have a negative effect in 2021.
(it’s going to be a challenging enough year as it is)
You and your team could be more productive, more motivated – and ultimately make more money – with some changes to your technology strategy.
We’ve created a new, free guide to show you the 5 key things you must include in your IT strategy (number 3’s the one your staff will be delighted to help with).
Download it instantly – right now.
If you would like to discuss any of this you can call us on 0207 241 2255 or simply fill out the contact form on our website and we’ll quickly get back to you. If you’d like to schedule a call directly with Ben, please connect via his calendar link.
Some kinds of insurance are mandatory: a no-brainer example would be car insurance.
Some are optional, like income protection or travel insurance. And, of course, they are of no practical help until that fateful day when they are and you thank yourself for signing up in the first place, right? Well, some people are more risk averse than others and whatever you decide is fair enough assuming you have thought it through.
When it comes to cyber-insurance for your business (and many other types of business insurance) I would always ask this:
Cyber attacks are very real and not remotely enjoyable. This guide from the National Cyber Security Centre gives you an overview of what to look for and how to approach gaining such insurance.
Crucially, it makes it very clear having such insurance does not magically make your business immune from attack (!) nor should you put off ensuring that your IT systems, data, devices and humans are prepared for interaction online. What it does provide is support if something terrible happens and assuming you have taken out appropriate levels of cover, that you will ride the storm and survive.
If you’d like to discuss any of this further please get in touch by calling 0207 241 2255 or simply schedule a session with me using my calendar link.
A ransomware attack is one of the most terrifying things that can happen to your business.
This is the computer attack where a hacker locks you out of your systems and data. And you must pay a ransom, typically in Bitcoin, to get access again.
What most people don’t realise is that hackers access your system weeks before they launch the attack. It takes time for them to set it up, and prevent IT security experts from helping.
So there are signs to look out for – ways to spot if your system has already been breached, and an attack is imminent.
Download our brand new guide and know how to keep your business safe.
If you would like to discuss this or have any other IT question, you can call us on 0207 241 2255 or simply fill out the contact form on our website and we’ll quickly get back to you. If you’d like to schedule a call directly with Ben, please connect via his calendar link.
Google is everywhere, isn’t it?
I mean, you don’t do a search on a person or place, you GOOGLE them!
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, owns YouTube, Nest and Waze. It even has its own mobile phone range (Pixel) as well as writing the Android operating system.
One of the main issues is the power that Google can aggregate by use of search placement and ever-increasing charges to advertisers based on the enormous amount of data accrued about user habits and purchases.
Using Google’s services may not cost money, but users (have to!) agree to have their data used for Google’s purposes before they can use Google’s services.
Are they abusing their market position with monopolistic action?
The US Department of Justice certainly believes so. Like the large anti-trust cases in recent history (Microsoft in the 1990s and AT&T in the 1970s) the defendants won’t let this happen without a fight. It is game on!
If you’d like to discuss any of this further please get in touch by calling 0207 241 2255 or simply schedule a session with me using my calendar link.
As business IT professionals, we’ve seen some things. Things that would horrify you. Things you would never want to encounter in your own organisation.
We’re talking security breaches, data theft and file corruption. That have brought entire businesses to their knees.
This is something that you – as the business owner or manager – really don’t want to happen
Hackers are targeting all businesses, all the time. Using clever automated tools, and by sending out billions of emails every day.
It only takes one person to click on one bad link… and hackers can get into your system.
You don’t need us to tell you that data loss can lead to a huge loss of confidence from your clients.
And often the cost of rectifying a situation such as this can be phenomenal.
That’s why we’ve written a brand new guide. To tell you about the ultimate secret to keeping your business data safe.
You won’t believe how simple it is. Download your copy now.
If you haven’t received data security training to your business, and this is of interest, you can call us on 0207 241 2255 or simply fill out the contact form on our website and we’ll quickly get back to you. If you’d like to schedule a call directly with Ben, please connect via his calendar link.
Business Email attacks are becoming more common. And the result of an attack can be devastating!
Cybercriminals target businesses via email infiltration because they perceive enormous riches that may lie within.
This article describes the process.
In essence, the attacker will register a legitimate email account with the intention of impersonating their target and ultimately gain access to the target’s email environment.
They typically only use these addresses sparingly, believing that this will reduce the chance of detection, although they may return to the account after a long period or re-use it to target a different organisation.
Their goal is to obtain some key piece of information such as a bank account or password with which they can attempt to infiltrate a network or gain access to a highly privileged account.
What can you do?
Invest in email filtering that uses AI to sniff out suspicious emails.
Educate and train users to be alert to suspicious emails and how to spot “red flags” in all online interactions.
You won’t regret it.
If you’d like to discuss the above further please get in touch by calling 0207 241 2255 or simply schedule a session with me using my calendar link.
Are you set up for working anywhere, on any device, at any time?
Didn’t 2020 just throw a massive curveball at us.
After the urgent rush to work from home in March, many businesses now have some staff still at home, with others in the office.
And it’s looking like (cliché alert) this will be the “new normal”.
Seeing as we don’t know what the next few years have in store us, this is a great time to make sure that all of your team can work from anywhere, on any device, any time.
That gives you maximum flexibility and minimum future disruption.
Download our guide to show you the most important things to consider with a permanent flexible working arrangement for your people.
If you would like to discuss this or have any other IT question, you can call us on 0207 241 2255 or simply fill out the contact form on our website and we’ll quickly get back to you. If you’d like to schedule a call directly with Ben, please connect via his calendar link.
We all know what GDPR is but what is PECR?
As this helpful guide from the Information Commissioner’s Office explains, The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) sit alongside the Data Protection Act and the GDPR. They give people specific privacy rights in relation to electronic communications.
PECR specifically looks at the electronic communications an organisation or business makes and how to ensure compliance with the regulations.
In essence, this relates to how an organisation sends communications out, such as marketing emails, texts and other methods of contact.
It may not be the most exciting thing to spend your time on but it’s an important legal and administrative process that requires time and resources.
Even if it’s not something you do yourself, this proves it needs to be done by someone!
A quick online search will give you lots of templates and guidance on how to approach assessment of what your business needs to do and produce the documents that demonstrate your compliance.
If you’d like to discuss the above further please get in touch by calling 0207 241 2255 or simply schedule a session with me using my calendar link.
Ransomware is terrifying. Just terrifying.
It is the fastest growing crime on the planet but what does ransomware mean to you?
Imagine switching on your work computer one morning. And instead of the screen you normally see, the screen has gone totally red.
There’s a message telling you your business’s data has been locked. And the only way to get it back is to pay thousands in Bitcoin.
This is not a rare event. It happens to businesses every day. Every business is at risk. And it’s one of the hardest things for us as your IT support company to fix.
Fortunately there are five really effective things you can do to protect your business. Download our latest guide. It tells you how to protect your business, and dramatically reduce your chances of being attacked.
It is important to take a long-term approach to this, just as you would with any form of cyber-attack. It’s cheesy, but prevention is better than cure!
If you don’t already have these precautions in place, you can call us on 0207 241 2255 or simply fill out the contact form on our website and we’ll quickly get back to you. If you’d like to schedule a call directly with Ben, please connect via his calendar link.
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