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Posted on 17 April 202417 April 2024

Keep It Simple… Encryption (pt. 4)

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You use encryption to keep your information secret from unauthorised people – not from everyone. I am going to skip the basics of encryption here as I have covered it in parts 1-3, there are links to those articles at the end of this article. Today, having spent time telling …

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Posted on 15 April 202416 April 2024

More cyber security for Google

Google has announced two excellent cyber security tools for organisations that use Google Chrome and/or Google WorldSpace. The first one for Chrome is for Chrome Enterprise and comes at a cost, but for an organisation that runs on Chrome it offers extra security steps around updates, extensions, third-party integration and …

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Posted on 10 April 202417 April 2024

Keep It Simple… Encryption (pt. 1)

encryption takes all forms

Today we are going to look at one of the quickest ways any organisation (that uses Microsoft 365) can enhance its cyber security – encryption. Why encryption? I was leading a Cyber Security Awareness course last week and one of the first things we discussed was best practice when it …

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Posted on 4 April 20244 April 2024

Is Microsoft and New Outlook being “reasonable”?

Here is an interesting story about the new Microsoft Outlook app spying on you – well not on me I do not use it. It comes from a source that I am unfamiliar with, but it was referenced by Bruce Schneier, a source I respect. Outlook is Microsoft’s new data …

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Posted on 6 March 20244 April 2024

Secure those Online Services

using online services is convenient but they need to be secured

We were early adopters when Microsoft launched Office 365, the online services that would become Microsoft 365. Up to then we had been purchasing Microsoft Office licenses each time a new version of Office was released, which was a substantial cost to a small IT company, but we needed to …

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