Security

5 Difficult Questions To Ask An IT Support Company

Posted: June 9, 2020
By: brightflow
Category: Business / Security

Sometimes in life we have to ask awkward questions. How much did that cost? Do you really need a second piece of cake? What’s that smell? But you don’t usually expect to feel awkward asking questions of an IT support company. Well, you should. A few tricky questions could help you to decide if they’re […]

Business as usual- Your urgent Coronavirus checklist

Posted: March 9, 2020
By: brightflow
Category: Business / Healthcare / Security

Many countries, including the US, are in uncharted water when it comes to Coronavirus. And despite our country’s best efforts to contain the virus, the World Health Organisation has declared that this is a public health emergency of international concern. The advice – as stated on the Government’s website – is to self-isolate should you […]

Uh-oh. Dave lost his cell phone

Posted: November 7, 2019
By: brightflow
Category: Security

Every year, millions of people lose their cell phones. That’s inconvenient for them. But a potential nightmare for you, if one of those people works for you. Because a third of people don’t take proper measures to protect data in their phone. Such as a long PIN, encryption, and remote wiping. If they’ve been accessing [...]

69 days go!

Posted: October 3, 2019
By: brightflow
Category: Business / Office / Security

Tick tock, tick tock. We’re getting scarily close to the deadline. In just 69 days, Microsoft officially switches off all support for lots of very popular software. Including some software you are still using, if our records are correct. It’s not obscure software. It’s mainstream software that thousands of businesses round here rely on. Windows [...]

Are you giving away too many secrets???

Posted: September 30, 2019
By: brightflow
Category: Business / Security / Social Media

Your social media profiles provide strangers with all sorts of information about who you are. If those strangers have criminal intentions, you could end up having your business accounts hacked, losing valuable data (and money). This is real. If a member of your staff talks about their dog on Facebook, hackers will use brute force [...]

5 Quick Wins = No Headache

Cyber security is a headache. I know this for a fact, because every day my team and I have to learn something new, and /or rescue a business round here that’s got it wrong. (don’t feel sorry for us. Secretly, we love every minute of it) Our daily headache is also a headache for you. [...]

Will You Purchase A Gift Card?

Posted: August 28, 2019
By: brightflow
Category: Security

Have you ever received an email asking you to purchase a gift card? We are seeing clients being spear-phished more and more. Just this week, someone fell for it and purchased over $1,000 worth of cards, scraped off the codes, and emailed back pictures of the codes. Would your company reimburse her? Kinda feel sorry […]

Can We Train Your Staff to Resist Hackers?

Posted: July 2, 2019
By: brightflow
Category: Business / Security

Computer hacking is the biggest threat of our time. The anonymous nature of the online world makes it easy for criminals to stay under the radar, constantly seeking new victims without anyone noticing. And you know the easiest victims to target? Your staff. The vast majority of data breaches happen because well-meaning staff make mistakes, [...]

A 5 minute, Friday afternoon job

Posted: June 24, 2019
By: brightflow
Category: Business / Security

A 5 minute, Friday afternoon job On a Friday afternoon, business tends to slow down a bit. Rather than fighting that, in my view it’s better to embrace it. Friday afternoons are a great time for your staff to do little jobs that don’t require much effort. Stuff they don’t find the time to [...]

“Boss, I left my cell in the bar last night…”

Posted: June 14, 2019
By: brightflow
Category: Business / Security

"Boss, I left my cell in the bar last night..." Thousands and thousands of cell phones are lost or stolen every single day. Frankly, it’s too easy to lose stuff. And it’s very annoying when it happens. Now think about how you will react when an employee tells you that they’ve lost their work cell [...]

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