With all the hot weather Melbourne has been having over the past couple of weeks, there is potential for heat-related damage to hardware, particularly for on-site servers. The heat brings other [...]
Do you close your office over the holidays? Or perhaps you run on a skeleton staff. Either way, you don’t want to spend your precious summer break worrying about IT problems. At least one [...]
Hooray for the warmer weather! Spring has finally sprung, and the summer break is not too far off. I’ve spent a great deal of time this year consulting, thinking and writing about IT security. [...]
I am sorry to say that on more than one occasion I’ve seen a business invest significant time and money in planning and executing a new technology solution only to find that it fails at the [...]
Australians are increasingly concerned about how companies handle their personal data, especially online. Faced with the increasing likelihood that this data will be compromised, either through [...]
I read a really good analogy recently about IT security: “IT security is like a balloon. If there’s even one hole, it’s not a balloon anymore.” (credit) Think about that for a minute, and you’ll [...]
It’s kind of nerdy, but I love well researched and presented information from reputable sources – especially when it’s free and helpful. Every year, the government’s Australian Cyber Security [...]
“The what scheme?” I hear you say. Most people have no idea what the NDB – or Notifiable Data Breaches – scheme is but if you run a business you MUST be prepared for when it comes into effect on [...]
Imagine one of your critical business systems being unavailable to you for 72 hours. This is what happened to many businesses recently when Webcity, a provider of hosting services, suffered a [...]
