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G Suite for Business: The 40 Best Features
What’s so great about Google G Suite for business? For your business, specifically? G Suite is quickly climbing in terms of popularity among businesses and people and businesses are embracing it. But, at first glance, you may just wonder what’s in it for you; if it’s...
Addressing Cyber Security in Your 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...
12 Key Business IT Considerations for Your Next Technology Review
Keeping a company’s IT in working order requires reviewing it periodically. An audit of all current and planned practices keeps managers informed of all relevant business IT considerations when asking outside companies for quotes on management, support, and consultation. It lets the companies give answers that will be useful to the business.
Our Top 12 Cyber Security Tips to Reduce Business Risk
We’ve compiled a list of our top 12 most important cyber security tips that everyone should be following. Enforcing these cyber security top tips will set you on the right path to cyber resilience, minimising your risk of exposure to attack. It’s...
The Office 365 Advantages That Make it a Great Investment for Your Business
Thanks to Microsoft’s evolution into being a provider of cloud-based applications, you’ve likely heard of Microsoft Office 365. You may not, however, know the scope of the Office 365 advantages for your business as a whole and for each end user. Moving to the Cloud...
Mobile Application Management ― Does Your Company Need It?
What is mobile application management? Have you heard the term, but don’t really know what mobile application management actually means, or how it can benefit your business? We’re here to get your head around mobile application management (MAM), so you can see why it...
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.
The Top 16 Cyber Security Audit Checklist Strategies
Why do you need to refer to a cyber security audit checklist? A cyber security audit checklist is a valuable tool for when you want to start investigating and evaluating your business's current position on cyber security. It can be difficult to know where to begin,...
A Summary of Healthcare Data Breaches in Australia
Healthcare data breaches in Australia are growing at a concerning rate. It’s the sector with the most reported data breaches between April 2018 and March 2019. Unfortunately, this trend is continuing. Of all reported data breaches in Australia across all sectors,...
The 7 Most Common IT Security Framework Options in Australia
Protecting your company data can be one of the most daunting parts of running a business. This includes personal data of employees, clients, and customers. We're here to break down the different advice and approaches about data security, including complying with...
Healthcare Cyber Security — A Growing Problem for Practices
This year there has been a drastic rise in ransomware attacks on computer systems within the medical industry. Some attacks have bought hospitals to a standstill for days and put the confidentiality of patient information at risk. This has called for medical organisations to take a serious look at their cyber security and what measures they have in place to prevent such attacks in the future. Let’s explore why Cyber Security is a growing problem for medical practices.
The 5 Most Common Cyber Security Threats
Cyber security threats are a very real part of running a company, given just how much business is now conducted online. Cyber security can be a convoluted issue to deconstruct. Talk amongst businesses of cyber security threats as pressing issues can leave you...
Top 10 Reasons to Use Intune for Mobile Device Management
Intune is Microsoft’s answer to mobile-device management for your business. It's popularity centres around how it provides Unified Endpoint Management of both corporate and BYO devices. It’s a cloud-based tool that gives employees access to corporate applications,...
The 32 Best Microsoft Office 365 Tips and Tricks for 2019
We’ve scoured the Web to discover the most powerful and useful Microsoft Office 365 tips and tricks to immediately boost your productivity in 2019.
9 Steps For Unbeatable Two Factor Authentication
Two factor authentication is an additional check to make sure a user is who they say they are before they are permitted to log in to an account. Either a user can set up 2-FA to protect their accounts, or two factor authentication is enforced by a company as a...
Our Top 10 Data Security Measures To Protect Your Business
Data security is consistently topical because business data is incredibly valuable. If you have something that valuable, it's more or less inevitable that someone will try to steal it, unfortunately. Every day, businesses are hacked and valuable data is stolen....
The State of Cyber Crime in Australia for 2019
Cyber crime is an ongoing and growing problem around the world. And unfortunately, Australia is most definitely not exempt from the trend. However, cyber crime is a broad umbrella, and it's worth mentioning that not all criminal cyber activities are created equal. In...
How To Identify A Cyber Attack and 25 Things You Can Do To Recover
A cyber attack often sounds like something out of a Hollywood heist film. But it's not always Hugh Jackman hacking into the mainframe and it's usually not for some complicated revenge plot. In fact, it's more likely to be the inverse of that. Someone sends out...
Office 365 Teams: 5 Ways It Can Empower Your Business
Don't underestimate the power that Office 365 Teams has to effectively transform the way you do business. Firstly, it's an integrated part of the Office 365 suite. So, you may struggle to find a better communication tool that works just as smoothly within your current...
The Problem of Cyber Security in Healthcare: Aussie Practices At Risk
Hackers are increasingly throwing all they've got at cyber security in healthcare. Ransomware, phishing scams, malware, data leaks, identity theft, and constant social engineering. This leaves healthcare employees wondering if they should just go back to their pens...
Microsoft Teams Review: New Features in 2019
Microsoft Teams now has 13 million daily active users. This statistic leads many to ask if the Microsoft Teams vs Slack debate is nearing its conclusion. However it may turn out in the end, for the meantime Microsoft Teams currently wears the crown for corporate...
6 Types of Cyber Security Attacks and How to Avoid Them
Cyber security attacks are on the rise worldwide. Without proper precautions, your customers’ most sensitive information could be at risk including tax file numbers (TFNs), addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, telephone numbers, employment and income information and more. A data breach such as those suffered by top companies including JP Morgan Chase, Target, Home Depot and others could potentially comprise the personal information of millions.
Let’s take a look at 6 of the most common types of security attacks your business will face.
The Top 10 MDM Solutions for Business
An MDM solution is software. Software that provides centralised control over all the mobile devices within an organisation. Above all, an MDM solution gives your organisation a single platform of bundled apps and functionality. As a result, you can easily manage all...
8 Things To Consider With Your Office 365 Migration
Migrating to Office 365 is a potentially profitable move for your business. Office 365 brings together a variety of essential services and can provide you with timely updates, powerful security, and reliable performance across devices. Here are Three key points to consider for a successful Office 365 migration.
How Identity Management is Transforming Business
Identity management is an overarching term for the organisational practices and procedures concerned with managing identity. Crystal clear, right? Tautologies aside, identity management is a broad topic that is simple in theory. However, in practice, there is so much...
10 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...
The 5 Healthcare IT Services Your Practice Needs
Healthcare practices are frequently vulnerable to cyber attack and run the risk of falling behind their competitors when it comes to IT services.
Business WiFi Case Study: Elegre Takes Back Control
Elegre brought in Stanfield IT to create a tailored business WiFi solution to provide their team with a wireless network they could trust.
The Only In-Depth Office 365 Review You’ll Ever Need
When you're looking into collaborative suites for your business, there's really two major options. They both seem to offer much of the same, and at a glance it can be hard to choose. The aim of our Office 365 review, is the give you the understanding you need to make...
5 Important Rules for Maintaining Your IT Infrastructure
IT infrastructure probably sounds like the last thing you want to learn about, because admittedly it sounds incredibly boring. However, when you're involved with the operation of a business; as an owner or employee, you'll quickly find out that IT infrastructure is...