We have been working over the last few years to move all of our clients from Microsoft Exchange 2016 and 2019 servers onto more modern and hopefully more secure platforms. Once Microsoft stops cyber security support for these servers, the threat actors will attack any that are still online. Microsoft: …
It is real, Windows 10 is going!
Our team over at Octagon Technology have been talking about this for over a year – Microsoft is really doing away with the cyber security support for Windows 10 this year. Here is another article explaining just what it will mean to your organisation if you use computers that are …
Information Security in the Office (pt.3)
This is part 3 of a short series looking at information security in the office – here are links to part 1 and 2. Information Security in the Office (pt.1) The Printer is the Issue Information Security in the Office (pt.2) Forgotten Technology Today we are going to look at …
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Forced Upgrades
It is nothing new for me to say that patches and upgrades are an essential step in any organisation’s cyber security plan. Threat actors actively go after any system that has a weakness as soon as they know about it – many times before a vendor even knows there is …
The cyber security risk of end-of-life products.
I have come across the issue of EoL products being used several times whilst carrying out IT and Cyber Security Audits. Often the client has no idea that the firewall or internet connected printer they are relying on is no longer supported by the manufacturer. I have written about this …
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