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28 July 2023
Whilst we’ve never put out an article on the tools that are available for it – one re-occurring point that we’ve touched on many times is the importance of backing up your systems. Without them, not only are you exposed to data l...
28 July 2023
With our other article this month going into detail about our Veeam platform – the backup platform that we use to protect our high-end VMware services – we thought that we should also talk about Acronis - our other backup platform which is m...
28 June 2023
When it comes to open-source and free-to-use platforms for building a website, none is more popular and more widely used than WordPress. With over 455 million websites the world over being built on it, there are many reasons for this wide adoption...
22 June 2023
Worryingly, it seems that every few months now a different organisation is being featured in the news, having been hit by a new cyber-attack and having their own data and/or the data of their clients stolen. In these attacks, one commonly mentione...
26 May 2023
This month we’re pleased to be able to announce two new exciting technologies that you’ll soon be able to utilise with your VMware Cloud services with Micron21. These technologies are a potential game-changer - as they’ll allow our cli...
26 May 2023
With reference to IT, when people hear the term "cloud” they often interpret it in many different ways. In fact, when the US government asked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to come up with a definition, i...
26 April 2023
When you go to see a medical professional to treat or diagnose an ailment or medical condition, it’s usually a good idea to make sure they’re accredited to some degree. Whilst it’s entirely possible that they have all the skills ...
26 April 2023
In recent months we’ve covered the new language-model AI from OpenAI - called ChatGPT - and the potential implications for both cyber and job security. We’ve also covered the history of phishing, discussing how it developed, how it wor...
28 March 2023
Back in 2017, Google decided to make a change to their Chrome browser to display a “Not Secure” message in the URL bar for any website that didn’t have an SSL certificate. Even prior to this change, Google was rewarding those sit...
27 March 2023
When it comes to cyber-security, the old proverb that it’s better to “hope for the best, but plan for the worst” is still relevant today. Even though the literary use of the phrase has been traced back to the 1800s, where it was ...
