Responsible and forward-thinking businesses all had a business continuity plan (BCP) prior to the current crisis. Its role was clear: to outline how the business would continue to operate during an unplanned disruption in service. The problem is that no one envisaged the scale of the current crisis when making their plans. And the result was that a lot of plans unfortunately proved to be ineffective when needed.
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Business leaders across the UK and beyond are putting their heads together (virtually of course) to decide what the ‘new normal’ will look like for their organisation. How to get there is a key element of the decision-making process and moving systems and data to the cloud is a big part of those discussions for many. If you are considering transitioning to the cloud, it’s important to consider how trust – or lack of it – can impact the various parties involved and affect outcomes going forward.
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It might sound like a bit of a cliché, but the reality is that robust business data security really is a journey not a destination. Now, more than ever before, as businesses deal with the explosion in remote working combined with new and increasingly sophisticated threats, business data security policies must evolve. And quickly. Protecting the most important business asset – it’s data – must move to the top of the IT priority list.
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Now that the dust has settled after the initial rush to introduce widespread remote working, many businesses are looking at their longer-term provision and considering what infrastructure set-up will best provide what they need for the future. For many, that is looking increasingly like a move away from on premise service provision.
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Did you know that the search engines we all use only look at a miniscule .04% of the ‘surface’ internet? The rest – the 99% plus that most of us never even see – is made up of various databases and private networks, as well as what is known as the Dark Web. But there is a problem lurking in the background that every business and its staff should be aware of, especially at the moment when so many people are working from home.
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Whilst so many more people than usual are working from home, it’s vital that businesses do everything they can to help their employees to keep personal and company data safe. Why not take a few minutes to remind everyone of the risks involved and the actions they should be taking to avoid a data breach? It could make all the difference.
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As if we haven’t all got enough to think about at the moment, malicious emails are on the rise. The National Cyber Security Centre confirmed in early April that the Covid-19 pandemic is being exploited by cyber criminals and that organisations should remain alert and take proactive steps to protect employees and the business.
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Things have changed pretty quickly recently. And businesses have had to adapt quickly too. With many employees now working remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic, this is putting immense pressure on both IT resources and on the teams who manage those resources.
Not all organisations are set up to facilitate remote working, and some that are set up now find their resources overstretched. Along with needing to manage their data systems in a different way, IT teams are also facing the additional issues that arise when entire workforces move to hosted networks as they work from home.
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We are pleased to welcome Peak Telecom, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of managed mobile devices and MDM software to the Access Cloud Hosting Services Platform.
After trialling the Access Cloud Hosting platform to evaluate the performance of the cloud versus an on-premise solution, Peak Telecom quickly identified the business would achieve improved performance, enhanced remote working capabilities and additional resilience with disaster recovery without having to invest thousands of pounds in new hardware onsite.
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Access World VIP sponsors NetApp shone a spotlight on Security at Access World 2019, held at the iconic Wembley Stadium, on Thursday 21 November.
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