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18 December 2024

Reduce the amount of spam you receive from your website using reCAPTCHA

For most businesses, your website doesn’t only function as the online face of your organisation - allowing visitors to see who you are and what you offer - it’s also used to generate leads and allow your customers to contact you. To that end...

26 November 2024

Improve your cybersecurity posture and efficiency by documenting your IT infrastructure

When it comes to your IT infrastructure, it’s hard  (if not impossible!) to know how secure you are, if you don’t know where everything is located and how it's all configured. This is because every endpoint is an entry point in...

22 November 2024

Ransomware payment reporting to be made mandatory under “Cyber Security Bill 2024”

Ransomware is something that we touch on regularly, as it’s one of the most profitable attacks that malicious actors can use to extract value out of their victims.  One of the reasons for this is that the effectiveness of the attack scales wi...

17 September 2024

Data Sovereignty vs Data Localisation - Why the difference between them is important

With the ever-growing concerns of foreign influence over data, “data sovereignty” is becoming more and more important not only to governments, but to enterprises and small businesses as well.  Data sovereignty refers to the laws an...

16 September 2024

The physical protection of data - The different ways we protect your systems

As a data centre highly focused on security, we often talk of the lengths we go to in order to protect our client systems from cybersecurity threats. This should be of little surprise, as the severity and volume of cyberattacks from around the world is ...

29 August 2024

You thought public WIFI was a security concern – beware public charging stations!

Most people these days are aware that public WIFI  is something to be wary of, which is great as they can potentially be the first step hackers can use to break into your devices and accounts.  Perhaps driven by all the advertisements online f...

28 August 2024

42% of vulnerabilities exploited after patch already released - Live patching helps keep you secure

When it comes to keeping your systems secure, deploying patches as soon as possible after they’re available should be at the top of your priorities.  Whilst all software updates are important - as they can contain bug fixes, new features, opt...

31 July 2024

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Again)

Perhaps emblematic of a post-apocalyptic movie or aliens creating global upheaval, nearly everything came to a complete standstill a week ago.  It would have felt surreal in this modern age to pop into the local supermarket for groceries just befor...

31 July 2024

Three billion email-based phishing attacks are sent every day

As mentioned last month in our cybersecurity update, with the ever-increasing threat of identity-based attacks, it’s more important than ever to protect yourself and your business from this type of attack. Whilst the ultimate defence against phish...

28 June 2024

Managing WordPress at scale – How to easily ensure all your websites are up-to-date and secure

When it comes to making sure your website is secure, one of the most important things - if not the most important - is to make sure that sure your website is up-to-date.  From the software used to build the website itself, to all the plugins, libra...

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