Recently the PSNI Cyber Crime Centre engaged with a Northern Ireland company that was the victim of a ransomware attack. To help raise awareness of cyber crime in general and ransomware in particular, the victim agreed to share their experience with others. As a company, how prepared did you feel your organisation was before this […]
Business Culture and Processes – Change is Coming
Over the last few weeks we have been forced to change the way that we work, but will this lead to a permanent change in business culture and processes? Many organisations have adopted technologies they thought only existed in Star Trek (am I giving away my age?). Suddenly, businesses of all shapes and sizes are […]
Covid-19 or Coronavirus – Working from home
Who would have thought that a naturally occurring virus, Covid-19 or Coronavirus, would be causing IT problems? If you are a small business or organisation, you might be trying to figure out what can be done to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 or Coronavirus. Most of us expect some negative consequences but are hoping for […]
Fraud – It started with a Tweet
Fraud – you can never be too careful Hardly a week goes by when we don’t hear another story about online or telephone banking fraud. In last weeks Guardian there was such a story, but this had a slightly different twist. Winning your trust For fraud to work, or so people tell me, you have […]
Safeguarding – Is technology the problem?
Technology has always been a vehicle for child exploitation, but now it can be part of the solution Police raided a photographic studio in Chelsea that belonged to Mr.Henry Hayler. In his studio they found over 130,000 obscene images, many of young children including his two young sons. Hayler had customers all over Europe and […]
Something to brighten your Tuesday
Something to brighten your Tuesday. Two fantastic sketches from “The Absolutely Radio Show” on BBC Sounds. If Facebook could talk……. The Alternative Customer Satisfaction Survey…….
Diversity and computing – we have a problem
Does IT have a diversity problem? Diversity is an issue that goes straight to the bottom line. The IT industry uniquely can do something about diversity, and turn it to it’s advantage. Most IT employers complain about a shortage of qualified staff and employers in Northern Ireland aren’t any different. A few weeks ago, I […]
GDPR – A Practical Guide
GDPR is coming and the simple fact is that most of us are ignoring it. Some hoped that BREXIT would save us or that it would just go away. Well I am sorry, but it won’t, and the deadline is the 25th of May 2018. It’s time to take GDPR seriously. This is the first […]
Ethical Hacking – A new cottage industry
Ethical Hacking – What is it? Ethical hacking – how can something bad be ethical? If IT was a John Wayne film, hackers would be the bad guys in black hats. Hackers cause immense harm to public confidence in data security and e-commerce. They also force organisations to spend large sums of money on IT […]
Self Assessment – Ease Your Tax Return Pain
Self assessment and the January deadline has come and gone for another year. Was this years’ Self Assessment just like last years’? Did you find lots of other things to do such as count the office paper clips? Anything but look for your invoices and receipts and getting them to your accountant on time. Did […]