The last few years have been tumultuous for businesses to say the least. With the current surge in energy prices, increased living costs, a potential recession, and supply chain shortages, it seems the challenges for business leaders will continue for... Read More
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Biggest Cybersecurity Threats Your Employees Should Know About
You may have heard that employees are the biggest cybersecurity threats to your business network. According to IBM data, human error is responsible for 95% of data breaches. Personally, I think using the term ‘human error’ is a disservice to... Read More
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Is Your IT Support Provider Delivering?
We hear all kinds of horror stories from our clients about their experiences with IT support providers. It’s apparent that some IT support providers in the UK are simply not delivering on their promise. Is yours? Today’s businesses are driven... Read More
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Signs Your Legacy IT Systems Are Impeding Business Growth
An IT system must be defined and measured by the critical to day-to-day capabilities it provides your business. When clients that are still using legacy IT systems come to us, we invariably discover the performance of their infrastructure could be... Read More
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CloudOps – The Future of IT Cloud Services
As firms increasingly migrate applications and data to the cloud, the outliers become more complex and time-consuming. To help improve the development of IT infrastructures and cut the workloads of cloud engineers, a new strategy has emerged - “cloud operations,”... Read More
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Switching To A Hybrid Model: What We’ve Learnt So Far
Switching to a hybrid model will require a period of trial and error. C-suite executives and IT professionals are entering uncharted waters. And it can get pretty choppy. So is it worth switching to a hybrid model in the first... Read More
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5 Greatest Threats To Business Continuity in the Digital Age
The digital age can provide businesses of all sizes with tools, platforms and opportunities to grow. But as we have seen over the last decade or more, the digital age also brings with it an increasing array of challenges which... Read More
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How To Build A Future-Proof IT Infrastructure
The digital revolution in the last twenty years has been nothing short of disruptive. It’s astonishing to comprehend that more than half of the Fortune 500 companies that existed at the turn of the millennium are now extinct because they couldn’t... Read More
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What Does The Future of IT Support Services in London Look Like?
I had a reflective moment the other day in which I was pondering how much IT support services in London have changed in the last decade (since we started Micro Pro actually). Rainy days. You know how it is. In... Read More
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Is Your Slow Internet Harming Your Business?
Since the pandemic, we’ve had a number of new clients reach out to us for assistance. Although companies need several IT support services and dwell in them for months, the proverbial straw that typically breaks the camel’s back is slow internet. Sluggish... Read More
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This is How Hackers Are Stealing Your Microsoft 365 Credentials
Microsoft 365 credentials are prized assets for bad actors. With access to login credentials, hackers can access sensitive data they can sell to bring businesses or impersonate executives or account personnel and send fraudulent emails that seek to extract money... Read More
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5 Questions To Ask IT Support Providers About Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is a strategic risk for all companies. The number of high profile data breaches that occur with increasing regularity has underscored the need for businesses to reach out to IT support providers about cybersecurity concerns. C-suite executives know they... Read More
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How To Train Your Staff In Cybersecurity Awareness
Your staff is your first line of defence against cybercrime. A lack of cybersecurity awareness is to be at the root of over 90% of successful cyberattacks. Blaming individuals for a data breach is not a solution. The onus is... Read More
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Gartner Identifies 7 Key Cybersecurity Trends
The technology research and consulting firm Gartner recently published a report detailing seven cybersecurity trends CISOs should be aware of. In brief, the seven trends provide advice about how companies can implement a cybersecurity strategy. Gartner analysts point out that cybersecurity is... Read More
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What Is Microsoft Endpoint And Why Your Business Needs It
Is Microsoft 365 the gift that keeps on giving? If your company has a distributed workforce and wants to bolster your cybersecurity fortress with cloud solutions, then yes it is. Microsoft Endpoint Manager means you can secure every device on your... Read More
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Latest Hacking Techniques To Watch Out For
Surveys indicate that a large percentage of SMEs are blasé about cybercrime. That could be costly. Even if you don't have a budget to install a boatload of cyber defence technologies, you can prevent a data breach by knowing the... Read More
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5 Tips To Securing Your Business Email Accounts
Securing your business email accounts goes a long way to preventing a data security breach. For business owners, email security should be a priority in your cybersecurity strategy. The number of high-profile data breaches over the last few years is... Read More
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Get Ready For Next Microsoft 365 Security Update
Microsoft recently announced plans to change the default setting in Office 365 in April 2022. The update is designed to help improve protection against hackers. However, it’s expected that the next Microsoft 365 security update settings will be imposed by default... Read More
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Attention: Hackers Dropping Malware in Microsoft Team Chats
Apologies if the title is somewhat alarmist, but I wanted to bring your attention to an important cybersecurity issue. It was recently discovered that malicious actors are dropping malicious malware in Microsoft Teams chats. The malware is a type of... Read More
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How To Successfully Perform Cloud Migration
Migrating to the cloud is inevitable. All the leading tech giants are phasing out “from-the-box-“ software and ramping up cloud services. When we say cloud migration is inevitable, we mean it will be the only option. Cloud migration also makes... Read More