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The secret costs of not upgrading your hardware

It’s easy to calculate the cost of new hardware or software. But there’s more to a business case than these hard costs. Delaying your upgrade cycle may save on these costs in the short term, but there are other costs that may start ballooning as your fleet ages beyond its [...]

Keep business laptops secure

When it comes to laptop and notebook computers, their greatest strength can often seem to be their most profound weakness. The very portability that makes them such useful tools for the mobile professional leaves them vulnerable to a host of catastrophes that never faced the average desktop machine. Fortunately for [...]

Shining a light on Shadow IT

‘Shadow IT’ refers to apps and services that are in use by members of an organization but not under the control of the IT team. An example might be a team setting up its own Dropbox or Google account to manage documents, or even using more advanced, typically online services [...]

Finding a home for your data

Options for enterprise data storage Local data center, hybrid cloud or cloud? As an enterprise IT manager, you have an unprecedented amount of choice for your storage needs, but finding the best solution still requires a good deal of research. Enterprise storage has been all the rage over the past [...]

Top 10 productivity tools and tips

In the days before the internet, productivity was a slow process requiring manual input and long-form mathematics. The internet has changed all that and is getting better all the time. So what are the top 10 productivity boosters for 2018? 1. The toughest USB device Aegis Secure Key 3Z is [...]

Pitch tech solutions to upper management – and succeed!

Explain the financial benefits One of the challenges of IT is that, if you do your job well, no one will ever know you’ve done anything at all. Take the issue of data loss and downtime, which 64 percent of IT workers at small to medium businesses (SMBs) say is ‘a [...]

10 tips for online security

One of the few industries that will never see budget cuts is security – especially cyber security. As the world grows ever more complex and connected, our valuable information is increasingly exposed to malicious actors from all corners of the globe. However, there are experts working behind the scenes to [...]

Why you need to have a physical security policy

Physical security and the healthcare sector Healthcare data is extremely valuable, so it comes as no surprise that recent security and data breaches at healthcare facilities have been making headlines. Just how valuable is it? Personal health records routinely fetch more than credit card data on the black market. This [...]

User security tips for 2018

Simple user security strategies for 2018 With the increase in file sharing and user access to work files from home and on the road, staying on top of security has never been more important. Add to that the growth of networks and the sheer number of users accessing a shared [...]

5-step security compliance for SMBs

What is security compliance? Being security compliant means your IT protocols follow prevailing local and international industry standards, as well as adhere to any laws that apply in your locality. Examples include adhering to local privacy and security of personal information laws if, for example, you record your customers’ personal [...]

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