With the weather warming up, many people are out cleaning cars, gardening and tidying homes and garages. Spring cleaning can apply to your data, documents and IT systems too, so this is a great time of year to purge unwanted data and files. Start by looking at your backups, the reason will become obvious shortly.
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In your household and business, Santa has probably been busy delivering a new phone, tablet computer, PC or laptop. Fantastic new additions to the family or business tech, but are they correctly and fully setup? Most new computers have antivirus software pre-installed, but usually this is on a one to three month trial only. Make
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Short and snappy Holding regular, short Security Awareness Training sessions with groups of staff is a great way of keeping cyber risk low in your business. Just mentioning ‘be careful on the internet’ during your staff induction process is not enough. Give new members of staff a quick overview of the risks to your business.
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Cloud Storage Many small businesses use cloud-based storage services such as Google, Box, DropBox and SugarSync to store and share data and files. These all have in-built security, but this could be compromised by a hacker. Sharing of data Sharing files and data enables effective collaborative working with customers, suppliers and colleagues too. However, data
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