by Andrew Hunt | Oct 20, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
We are deploying some new tools for our KARE for Security clients. For a limited time we can share these with all our clients to give you and your colleagues some great e-security awareness training. The holiday season is targeted by scammers, they know that employees...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 15, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Zero-trust sounds extreme Humans like to trust. We trust everyday as we drive down the street that the people coming the other way will stay in their lane. We trust that the restaurants we visit prepare our food properly and hygienically. We trust that our doctor...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 8, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
If only life were so simple! We have some clients that ask us about file security in the cloud as if the answer is an absolute. Of course it isn’t. The cloud is more secure than an on-premise system Assuming we’re talking about a reputable mainstream cloud,...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 8, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
Why do we need offsite, air-gapped backups? About ten years ago the age of the tape ended. USB 3 was the nail in the coffin for tapes. Finally we had something that was just as fast, but supported random access. At about the same time, we moved from data backups, to...
by Andrew Hunt | Oct 2, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
We’ve warned before about vulnerabilities like Spectre and Meltdown. The basic precautions are to keep your Windows, Office and other software completely up to date, and of course keeping your anti-virus current. That’s going to stop most things but lately we’ve...
