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Are you really at threat from Cyber-Crime? 2 trillion reasons to say YES.

18 Feb 2020 Comments off

In New Zealand, the National Cyber Security Centre (NZ Govt - https://www.ncsc.govt.nz/) reports they reduced harm in NZ by $27.7 million in 2018/19.. We know that’s just the tip of the iceberg – most cyber crime still goes unreported and certainly doesn’t get stopped by the NZSC. In fact, only 339 incidents were reported to them – but still, [...]

With yet another IT security warning from the NSA, we’re being asked “so what is best practice?”

24 Jan 2020 Comments off

Aligning with NIST Is your Cyber-Security protection matching best practice? Clearly the cyber-security stakes are higher. The security precautions that used to be reasonable are no longer enough. Stakeholders expect businesses to do more – whether it’s your insurer, your bank, your shareholders or your clients. The best guidance on [...]

What will the 20’s decade bring?

24 Jan 2020 Comments off

There’s a debate raging in our office as to whether the new decade begins this year, 2020, or next, 2021. Regardless, we can all agree on the vast change in everyday technology since 2010. It’s a great time to reflect on what we might see in the next ten years, using the massive rate of change over the last ten. Back in 2010, could we ever [...]

Is your Bluetooth safe?

23 Jan 2020 Comments off

Bluetooth has become ubiquitous. We use it to connect our phones, laptops, keyboards, mice, headphones, speakers, cars – more and more each day. Even watches now! It seems to have got easier, maybe because we’re so practised with it. Bluetooth is everywhere. Hackers like to go after things that are in common use. That makes sense, [...]

THREE EDGE TIMESAVERS

02 Jan 2020 Comments off

It’s a point of pride among many users to immediately swap out their default web browser on Windows from Edge to something else. To be fair, that’s because Microsoft’s past browsers have fallen behind the marketplace – other browsers are faster and more compatible with more websites. In fact, we found some of the various support and admin [...]

Christmas is the season for… (Our Christmas hours)

06 Dec 2019 Comments off

For some, Christmas is the season for relaxing and enjoying. For others it is work, work work! While a number of our clients take a well-earned break at this time of year, it's the busy season for others. We have a crew working every business day through the holiday season and rostered support for after hours including [...]

Excel’s Best Ideas

04 Dec 2019 Comments off

(It used to be called ‘Insights’ ). It’s Excel’s attempt to make you look smarter and more thoughtful. Simply start with a table (not a pivot table) of data, and hit the idea’s button and see what comes. Based on my experimentation, it gets a little confused with formatting and ‘total’ lines in data, so you may need to [...]