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How to Boost Your Cyber Security Awareness: 7 Expert Tips
How to Boost Your Cyber Security Awareness: 7 Expert TipsAre you hoping to improve your cyber security awareness? You've come to the right place.As a business owner, you want to protect what you’ve built as much as possible - and why wouldn’t you? After all, you’ve...
How To Choose Your Mobile Device Management Solution
Mobile device management software first emerged in the early 2000s as mobile devices started to become more common in the workplace. However, when 2007 saw the launch of the revolutionary iPhone, it fueled a huge trend of 'bring your own device' (BYOD) to work....
Top 12 Cyber Security Tips To Help Protect Your Business
Got cyber security on your mind? So do we (and if you don't we think you should!). To help you mitigate those cyber security woes, we’ve listed our top 12 most important cyber security tips. Enforcing these cyber security tips will set you on the right path to...
10 Great Ways You Can Protect Your Data with Google MDM
This post will cover Google's MDM. If you haven't heard of Google's Mobile device management, or mobile device management in general, read this post first which explains MDM in greater detail. Mobile devices have shaken up the workflow. However, when we say mobile...
Addressing Cyber Security For Small Business: a Beginner’s Guide
Cyber security for small businesses has different priorities and levels of risk compared to others. As a small business, you're less likely to be adequately protected, and, for this reason, more likely to be targeted. Depending on what industry you're in can also...
6 Types of Cyber Security Attacks and How to Avoid Them
Let's discuss cyber security risk and the different types of cyber security attacks. It's one of those topics that is finally being taken more seriously across all industries. Businesses and users alike are learning to identify cyber security risks and attacks and how...
10 Reasons Why You Need a G Suite Partner
Having a G Suite partner can serve you and business well, regardless if you’ve already made the migration to G Suite or are still considering it. If you’ve already got G Suite and are wondering what you could possibly want a G Suite partner for, then have a look at...
8 Working from Home Cybersecurity Tips to Keep Your Business Secure
2020 has certainly been a year of firsts when it comes to owning a business. The first global pandemic you’ve seen affect earnings and your ability to run your business normally. The first time employees are working from home more than from the office. The first time...
10 Ways Small Businesses Can Benefit from Managed IT Services
bHow can you benefit from managed IT services? When businesses are starting out, deciding where those early funds are to be spent can be a very hard decision. So how does a small business improve and grow their business whilst still turning a profit? With technology...
Should Your Business Have a Backup Internet Connection?
Like many businesses, you might have figured out you need a second internet connection or a backup internet connection. Backing up your internet service through a secondary provider (sometimes one provider will go dark in certain suburbs, so make sure you use a...
How Outsourced IT Services Can Boost Your Business
Outsourced IT services can help businesses handle fast growth. Whether you’re are a small start-up with no IT team or a large organisation who has a strained IT department, an outsourced IT service could be the answer you’ve been looking for. Why opt-in for outsourced...
Zoom Vs Teams: Which is Best for Your Business?
2020 has resulted in businesses having to reshape how we collaborate and communicate at work. Businesses are trying and testing different video conferencing platforms so that, through Covid-19, they can try and stay a functioning, profitable business. You may not even...
The Ultimate Business Cyber Security Cheat Sheet for any Business
It’s here: the cheat sheet that your business needs on hand to get on top of cyber security. Type ‘business cyber security’ into Google and you’ll get more hits than you can poke a stick at. Who has time to even read through first page of long-winded results that come...
Microsoft Teams vs Slack: Why We Choose Teams for the 2020 Workplace
Microsoft Teams active users have skyrocketed this year, increasing by 62-million people from mid last year. From March to April, 33-million daily active users signed up. Wow! Yes, we do attribute much of this early-year boom to the Covid-19 pandemic making us working...
10 Traits of A Great Business IT Partner You Should Look Out For
Choosing your business IT partner can be a stressful decision. What factors let you know that you’ve made the right choice? Are you certain they have the relevant skills and experience to fully support the IT side of your business? Is the price they quoted you...
How Microsoft Intune Makes Working from Home as Secure as the Office
Thanks to covid-19 shaping how (and, most pressingly, where) we do business, 66% of employees (data from April, 2020) are working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. While some of us are now filtering back to the office, many are still working from home. This...
Successful Business IT Relocation Case Study
Bluestone brought in Stanfield IT to project manage the relocation of 3 offices at the same time. This was a high pressure project with a great result.
10 Office 365 Benefits For Your Business
In this post, we'll take a look at how Office 365 can benefit your business. We are all familiar with Microsoft applications. In most businesses, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, are the very foundations of work and productivity. Every day, Excel spreadsheets...
The 5 Biggest Cyber Security Challenges For 2020
Cyber security challenges every business to uphold only the best data management strategies and security protocols. These strategies will ensure you protect your sensitive information, and customer satisfaction. At a glance, it may not seem like it, but cyber security...
The Essential Guide to Boosting Your IT Security
When it comes to IT security, we can never really get enough. If you've spent any time on our site, you'll know that IT security is one of our obsessions. With the right IT security in place, you'll find that your business operates with more confidence, and fewer tech...
6 Ways To Elevate Your Business and Become Cyber Resilient
What does cyber resilience mean? With cyber threats morphing and evolving daily, just having the latest updates and security patches isn't enough. There are hackers constantly working to infiltrate the latest safeguards, which can wreak havoc for a complacent...
50 Powerful Ways we Increased Business Information Security
Information security is a hot topic amongst all the IT experts these days, and they all tell you the same thing. Protect your information. Improve your information security. Prevent data breaches. Look both ways before crossing the street. Yawn... but seriously,...
10 Reasons to use Office 365 for Small Business
Companies are constantly looking for new efficiency tools with add-on systems and solutions. However, the easiest choice is to build out the existing Microsoft Office with Microsoft 365 tools. Utilizing these add-ons creates a seamless experience and powerful capabilities. Best of all, they use the same Microsoft Office interface that practically all office workers are used to. There are several reasons why this tool is a key for success for small businesses.
Finding the Right IT Solutions For Your Business
Running and managing a business is stressful enough when you're only focusing on business goals related to strategic marketing and sales growth. When you throw in slow networks, storage limitations, and failed backups, your business is suddenly facing more hurdles to...
What is Office 365 and How Can it Benefit my Business?
Have you found yourself asking what is Office 365? Office 365 had had a lot of traction recently. This is for both small-to-medium businesses to enterprises. Many businesses have at least thought about or considered a move to Office 365. The move, however, can be a...
11 Solid Strategies For the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme
How is your business handling the new Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme? Since being introduced in 2018, it's been a hot topic for business owners and managers alike. Considering that unreported data breaches now carries a $360,000 fine for individuals and a $1.8...
What You Need To Understand The Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme
The Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme is a modern piece of governmental legislation. It forms part of the Privacy Act and has only existed for two years. It was introduced on February 22, 2018. Governmental legislation and documents are often sprinkled with stilted and...
14 Step Cyber Security Checklist To Prepare Your Company
As your company’s CIO, you know how often businesses are targeted by cyber criminals. Convincing members of the board that all that money is well spent on cyber security and the IT department, isn’t always easy, though. Use our cyber security checklist to show all the ways that your department is working to protect your company now and in the future. So have you every prepared a Cyber Security Checklist to ensure you have all of your bases covered?
What To Do if Your Business is Hit by a Ransomware Attack
Most realizations of a ransomware attack begin with a similar scenario. Staff begin reporting that they are unable to open or access files. When you investigate you see that file names or extensions have been changed and there are documents with ransom payment instructions. You have become the victim of a ransomware attack. The question now is, how do you deal with a ransomware attack and what do you do?
Why Your Business Needs IT Managed Services
It's easy to be sceptical about a website bragging about their services being better than all the rest. Rightly so, we're all just tooting our own horns here. But, we've reviewed what our existing clients love about our IT managed services. What is it that made them...