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17 September 2024

Data Sovereignty vs Data Localisation - Why the difference between them is important

With the ever-growing concerns of foreign influence over data, “data sovereignty” is becoming more and more important not only to governments, but to enterprises and small businesses as well.  Data sovereignty refers to the laws an...

16 September 2024

The physical protection of data - The different ways we protect your systems

As a data centre highly focused on security, we often talk of the lengths we go to in order to protect our client systems from cybersecurity threats. This should be of little surprise, as the severity and volume of cyberattacks from around the world is ...

29 August 2024

You thought public WIFI was a security concern – beware public charging stations!

Most people these days are aware that public WIFI  is something to be wary of, which is great as they can potentially be the first step hackers can use to break into your devices and accounts.  Perhaps driven by all the advertisements online f...

28 August 2024

42% of vulnerabilities exploited after patch already released - Live patching helps keep you secure

When it comes to keeping your systems secure, deploying patches as soon as possible after they’re available should be at the top of your priorities.  Whilst all software updates are important - as they can contain bug fixes, new features, opt...

31 July 2024

Three billion email-based phishing attacks are sent every day

As mentioned last month in our cybersecurity update, with the ever-increasing threat of identity-based attacks, it’s more important than ever to protect yourself and your business from this type of attack. Whilst the ultimate defence against phish...

31 July 2024

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Again)

Perhaps emblematic of a post-apocalyptic movie or aliens creating global upheaval, nearly everything came to a complete standstill a week ago.  It would have felt surreal in this modern age to pop into the local supermarket for groceries just befor...

28 June 2024

Managing WordPress at scale – How to easily ensure all your websites are up-to-date and secure

When it comes to making sure your website is secure, one of the most important things - if not the most important - is to make sure that sure your website is up-to-date.  From the software used to build the website itself, to all the plugins, libra...

28 June 2024

An update on the state of cyber-security in 2024 – Ransomware, QR code ‘quishing’, and more

Every six months or so we like to do a review of the state of cybersecurity in the IT landscape.  It’s rarely good news, with cyberattacks seeming to only ever grow in number and in frequency.  And unfortunately, this month’s news ...

31 May 2024

Deep Dive - What is colocation and how to save money by using your own hardware

With the ever-growing trend over the last decade being the move of clients from hosting their systems on-premises to the cloud, it was a surprise to most when this trend started to change.  With the astronomical rise and adoption of public cloud pr...

31 May 2024

Improve your internet speed and reliability by connecting directly to the cloud

As many learned during the Optus outage that occurred back in November last year, the reliability of internet connections can have a profound impact on the functioning of any organisation.  As we reported at the time1, crucial services l...

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