Imagine someone logging in to your account in the middle of the night then stealing all your information or accessing your email. What could they get into? Maybe they could use your email to break in to another account by way of a forgotten password link. The possibilities for damage and trouble are endless. This …

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Mobile phone security is something that can just be taken for granted. We all carry our mobile phones with us everywhere and do everything on them – but when it comes to using those phones for business, they often drop out of the company’s IT support. They shouldn’t – that’s why you come to us …

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Authentication, Authorisation and Accountability. This is the third part of a three-part series looking at the basics of the cyber security principle of “AAA”. Day Three – Accountability Accountability is probably the least enforced part of our Triple A principle in most organisations. But if you do embrace it, it can have a powerful impact …

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I thought I would let you all know about some of the tools we use for IT monitoring to keep an eye on your systems. Below are a couple of technologies that we recommend to our clients. They just give you that extra peace of mind to know that we can monitor what is going …

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Most of us use a computer running Microsoft Windows for work – I do – some of us use an Apple Mac or a Chromebook and an even smaller number use a computer not running one of those mainstream operating systems – Linux. Linux has a major advantage when it comes to using it in …

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Restarting  – Welcome to our new blog Our blog is now the responsibility of our excellent support team, so they can share their IT support advice and stories with you. However, they are busy this week moving a large office and launching a website for a company, both on very short notice (sometimes clients do …

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The top story of the week is that we have now passed 1000 cyber security articles on Smart Thing Solutions: This is probably the second most important story of the week to anyone who owns a business and employs someone who they have to trust: Whether you believed that the Google AI is sentient or …

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Today, is a a day worth celebrating. Today we published our thousandth post over on the Smart Thinking Solutions cyber security news site. Clive has written a good article that covers how and why we started Smart Thinking and he has picked out 10 topics that we write about, illustrating them with example posts from …

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This is a very quick post – to point you in the direction of a short article I have written over at Smart Thinking. I spend a lot of my time thinking and writing about cyber security (and the team would also add “drinking coffee”, and my answer is “but how do you do IT …

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