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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...
The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft SharePoint in 2020
Let's have a chat about all the wonderful ways that Microsoft SharePoint benefits your business. With the vast array of business-related productivity tools and software packages, it frequently feels like there's too much to choose from. If your business is already...
The Wonderful Ways Microsoft Azure Can Transform Your Business
Microsoft Azure is probably the biggest, most useful tool that your business isn't using. Azure gives you the power to turn ideas into tangible solutions via over 100 services that you can utilise to build, deploy, and manage applications. This can be done on the...
Cyber Security Australia: The 40 Best Cyber Security Articles to Read in 2020
Cyber Security in Australia underwent massive evolution in 2018, which is entirely appropriate given the rate of cyber crime growth. Throughout 2018 and 2019, Australia moved forward in addressing the rise of cybercrime. As a country, we implemented legislation to...
G Suite vs Office 365: Which One Should You Choose?
We've seen it all before. iPhone vs Android. Windows vs Mac, Xbox vs Playstation, Pizza Hut vs Dominoes. For small-to-medium businesses, we're always tossing up between G Suite and Office 365, wishing it was a more clear cut choice. But, alas, it's a battle for the...
Ten Key Points on How to Choose the Best IT Company Sydney Has to Offer
Are you eager to find the best local IT company for your business, but don't know where to start looking? Choosing an IT company can be a trying process and it goes without saying that you're looking for the best IT company Sydney has to offer! But how do you know,...
What is SDWAN and How Can it Support Your Business?
SDWAN is a networking tool businesses will often utilise if they're spread out geographically. It's been growing in popularity and used by Australian businesses for several years now, but there's still a lot of confusing information surrounding it. When you first...
Mobile Device Management for Office 365 with Microsoft Intune
There are undeniable benefits of employees being about to log into their company accounts while they're out of the office. Productivity and collaboration are just two of these. However, the increased risk of company information getting jeopardised is also undeniable....
Top Benefits of Enterprise Wireless Solutions for the Modern Workplace
From our mobile phones to Wi-Fi, with each passing year our lives become more integrated with the ever improving wireless technology. So have you been wondering about the benefits of enterprise wireless solutions for the modern workplace? Here are some of the reasons why your business needs to be wireless.
11 Firewall Features You Can’t Live Without
A firewall should be part of your overall cyber security mitigation strategy. You’re not a big bank or Apple, so your business is safe from hackers. Right? Unfortunately not. Many hackers actually target small-to-medium businesses because they know SMEs are less...