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Festive Cyber Tips for every business owner

We’re entering the festive season and it’s tempting to sit back and relax, assuming that so is everyone else. But cyber criminals don’t take annual leave, or, out of the goodness of their hearts, reduce the veracity and tempo of their attacks just because it’s Christmas. Here’s what you can do to prevent cyber criminals
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How to Score the Best Tech Deals

By Sarah Landrum Contracts got you wrapped up in red tape? If you don’t get fresh air soon, you may suffocate from tech deal deprivation. Technology is constantly changing, and your wallet can’t keep up. Your technology must be up-to-date to stay connected to friends and family, and many jobs depend on keeping current on […]

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Security fears and poor investments shake ITDMs confidence

IT decision makers (ITDMs) expressed concerns about the resources available and allotted to them for addressing cybersecurity threats and meeting current and future business demands, according to new research from Intermedia. The Index surveyed 350 ITDMs, statistically measuring IT confidence levels on a 10-point scale (where zero represents “not confident at all” and 10 represents
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Small businesses and cyber crime at Christmas: Stay vigilant

UK retailers are expected to see a dangerous spike in online criminal activity in the run up to Christmas 2016. According to recent data from digital security specialist ThreatMetrix, more than 20 million cyber attacks are expected to target online retailers and shoppers in the UK alone, across the last quarter of the year. With
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UK SMEs paralysed by cybersecurity need to get fundamentals right

UK organisations are paralysed by the choice of security technologies available to them, but are failing to maintain the basic fundamentals. This is according to Peter Groucutt, managing director at Databarracks. Groucutt has significant concerns about the vulnerability of UK organisations against a growing cybersecurity threat landscape. Groucutt says that cybersecurity threats are now the
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Queues are a bugbear – tackle them with mobile tech

Extreme weather conditions, weak cups of tea and rail replacement buses are just a few typical revulsions of the average Brit today. What can really put us in a bad mood, however, is a, long queue – there’s nothing worse. Us Brits are famed for our logical, well-mannered approach to forming an orderly queue, but
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Festive season prime time for IT outages warn experts

With the cost of IT outages and downtime, outages and failures costing UK businesses in excess of £12 billion in lost productivity in 20151, experts are warning companies to be prepared as the countdown to Christmas and the onslaught of last minute bargain buying begins. Jason Fry, IT specialist at PAV i.t. services, says, ‘Failure
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The IT to connect a mobile workforce

Allowing your employees to work remotely has numerous productivity benefits, and with BYOD on the increase, working ‘on the go’ is all the more accessible for small businesses. However, in order to make your workforce truly mobile, you need Mobile Workforce Management (MWM), software which connects the various devices and reduces the previous limitations of
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Fraud ignorance is rampant in businesses and organisations

A collaboration between the University of Leicester and experienced fraud investigators has resulted in research which could provide a breakthrough. Investigator and doctoral student Veronica Morino claims that many organisations and multi-national companies are mostly experience fraud ignorance and that the emergence of an industry of ‘fraud specialists’ is profiting from this fact. In the wake
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