Blog / The Cloud: Soft, Fluffy, and Secure “The Cloud” is often touted as being the greatest thing since sliced bread. It’s amazing! It’s fast, it’s secure, it’s inexpensive, and it’s [insert your favourite feature here]! Honestly with the list of great features and things it can do, it’s a wonder that anyone buys there own computers anymore, right? But is the Cloud […] April 04, 2021
Blog / April Fools’ Day Every Day? Celebrating April Fools’ Day is a good way to build team spirit and have some fun with your colleagues, now more than ever. With so many of our team members working remotely we all want to create more camaraderie with our co-workers, and harmlessly respectful pranks are a great way to do just that. Unfortunately, […] April 01, 2021
Blog / Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans Disaster Recovery Plans ready to be activated by a big red button! What do you do in the event of a fire in office? Not a small one mind you, a big one. What about a flood? Have you considered an earthquake? What do you do (as a business) when things go horribly, terribly, massively, wrong? You turn to your Disaster Recovery(DR) and/or Business Continuity(BC) plans. These […] March 29, 2021
Blog / How Much Good Do VPN’s Really Do? Over the past few decades, the internet has become increasingly important to businesses of every size and variety. From its inception in the 80s to its widespread adoption in the late 90s and early 00s to its vast size and increasing complexity of the modern day, businesses have come to rely on internet access as […] March 25, 2021
Blog / What is Social Engineering? When most people think about hacking they normally picture something out the movies. You know the scene; some hooded hacker at a keyboard performing all sorts of technological wizardry to get around a computer’s defenses. Unfortunately that’s also exactly how most organizations set up their hacking defenses. The problem is there’s a hole in that […] March 22, 2021
Blog / Is your IT ready for employees to return? Now is the time to prepare your offices for the new work world. With COVID-19 vaccines finally being deployed across the country, there’s hope for a return to normalcy, or at least something like it, over the coming months. Working remotely may be a useful tool for extreme situations and occasional work-from-home days, but there’s […] March 18, 2021
Blog / Canada-Wide Microsoft Teams Outage (UPDATED) On March 15, 2021, we (and thousands of other businesses) experienced issues with our phone system (based on Microsoft Teams). There was a Canada-wide outage for Teams and we were unable to receive calls. At approximately 4:15PM, we were able to restore use of our phone systems. We apologize for the inconvenience.     March 15, 2021
Blog / Phishing Emails – Effective for hackers, hard to detect for filters Phishing Training Phishing emails and spam both come at you through the same medium: email. That means the defenses against both are also the same. It’s down to your spam filtering to keep you protected from spam and other harmful email messages. Spam filtering checks can be configured as either hard or soft checks. The terms hard and soft don’t refer […] March 15, 2021
Blog / Being Smart About Smart Devices Smart devices have been with us for a long time now. Although they only became ubiquitous in the last several years, smart devices can be traced all the way back to 1994 and IBM’s Simon Personal Communicator. That means, from some perspectives, we’ve been living with smart devices for almost 30 years now (27 if […] March 11, 2021
Blog / URGENT—Exchange Server Vulnerability Update On Wednesday March 3rd we detailed a server “zero-day” security vulnerability discovered in Exchange Server 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. At the time it was noted that while the vulnerability had been exploited prior to the patches being available, Microsoft had suspected that only a handful of high-profile organizations had been compromised by a Chinese […] March 09, 2021

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