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The War On Ukraine. What's the Cyber threat to our businesses?
We have all been shocked by developments in Ukraine in the last few days. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people caught up in the midst of this.
However it would be remiss of us not to consider what impact the fallout has on our organisations.
3 Digital Disruptions That Affect WFH Employees And How To Avoid Them
As more employees work from home, the risk of cyber-attacks grows. In 2020, between the months of March and July, nearly half of all businesses dealt with some sort of digital disruption.
Data is everything to a small business in this day and age – which means if you lose access or control of your data, you lose everything.
As dramatic as that might sound, the data backs that up. According to several sources, 93% of companies, no matter how big they are, are out of business within one year if they suffer a major data disaster without having first formulated a strategy for combating it.
Why You’re Not Rich Yet
Recently, Petra Coach presented a webinar, Why You Aren’t Rich Yet, with David Waddell and Teresa Bailey of Waddell & Associates. The webinar is aimed at helping entrepreneurs identify key biases that may be preventing them from maximizing their net worth and also shows them how they can change things to actually make a substantial profit.
On our Wednesday Webinar this week, we heard from Nick Elton, a Chief Inspector from Hampshire Police, on the latest Cyber Crimes and Scams being experienced in the local area. After a 45-minute discussion he left us with a Scam Awareness leaflet to share.
Zoom - Amazing or Terrible?
It's such an easy way to hold business meetings (and virtual happy hours)!
The worry is that your competitor will sneak into your meetings, steal all your secrets and then sell
them to the competition.
Article supplied by Chris Ward, Technical Director, Vermont Systems Ltd
Amazon has hit the news several times in recent months with its drone delivery programme. The latest is that it has filed a patent to allow a delivery drone to parachute the package to your door step to avoid challenges with landing the drone itself safely. Sounds crazy right?
Job Title: Cloud and Managed IT Service Technician - Level 2
Salary: £23,000 - £29,000 dependent on skills and experience
Location: Chandlers Ford, Hampshire
Vermont Systems are looking for a Level 2 Support Technician to join their team in Chandlers Ford.
There’s an old joke about two men hiking in the woods when they come across a big, grumpy black bear. Scared silly, one of the guys starts to run but notices his friend stopped, bent-over, changing his shoes. He shouts to him, “Dude! What are you doing?!?! Why aren’t you running?” to which his friend replies, “I’m changing my shoes because I don’t need to outrun the bear – I only need to outrun YOU.”
This is a perfect analogy for what’s going on in small businesses: the “slow,” easy targets are getting nailed by fast-growing cybercrime rings that are getting more sophisticated and aggressive in attacking small businesses.