Gildas Jones

Why migrate to the cloud now? A Quick Guide

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For most businesses, regular lockdowns have only underscored the benefits of migrating to the cloud. But they’ve also shown that the decision to be “on the cloud” isn’t something for your resident IT geeks to suggest. It’s a high-level business decision which more and more business owners are realising it’s smart to take sooner rather than later.

Non-malicious insiders in business cybersecurity

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Affordable cybersecurity is not the same thing as getting a “friend who knows about this sort of thing” to take care of it. Here are the four classic archetypes of non-malicious insider who, under the guise of “helping you out”, are unintentionally doing your business a great deal of harm.

The 6 best Microsoft 365 Add-Ins for efficiency

For all the efficiency-boosting brilliance of 365’s apps and tools, there are even more extra options you can add in (literally – they’re called “add-ins”) to make Microsoft’s collection of productivity apps even more useful for your business.

Here we’ve collected 6 of the very best Microsoft 365 add-ins you might like to take out for a spin.

Microsoft’s Audio Conferencing promotion

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Microsoft has recently decided to make online meetings even better for people who use 365 and Teams to communicate in the workplace. The good news is that the way they’ve done this is via a new Audio Conferencing promotion. The best news is that this promotion means you can get access to most of these new improvements for free or on discounted licenses. Here’s how it works…

The average cost of data breaches

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For many business owners, data breaches sound like things that happen to other people. After all, who would want to steal data from a SME like yours? Well, as it turns out, a surprising number of people would definitely be interested…

Why you can’t rely on antivirus alone

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Is your cybersecurity up to scratch? If you ask many business owners, most will tell you “yes, I’ve got antivirus software” and believe this means they’ve done their due diligence.
Unfortunately, antivirus software is nowhere near enough to protect you against the vast majority of cybersecurity threats out there…

Harnessing the power of G Suite for remote working

For some people, 2020 meant all hands to panic stations as they tried to figure out how to use their old technology to set up new working from home capabilities. Others were taken by surprise by how easy the shift to remote working was. Most of these companies had already started using the latest collaboration tools in their day-to-day business – such as G Suite.