IT Force Blog
Are you relying on traditional multi-factor authentication (MFA) to keep your company’s data safe? You may want to rethink that strategy. Microsoft recently announced that from February 27, 2023, number-matching MFA will be the default setting for its mobile app – a key step in its efforts to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals. In this blog, we take a look at this change and the importance of authentication & security for businesses.
The proliferation in the scale and sophistication of cyber-attacks has alarmed many businesses. One logical option that organisations are exploring is to seek cyber insurance cover, so that if a breach happens, there is an avenue available to recover some of the financial losses associated with an attack.
Here’s a look at three ways that you can use your MSP to help you forecast your IT costs for the upcoming year.
In practice, many IT Managed Services Providers (MSPs) today, will include a virtual IT Director/vCIO as a valuable element of their support provision and at no added cost to you, the client.
This helps them to provide a complete, end-to-end service, ensuring expert management and maintenance of your entire IT infrastructure.
In many cases, the vCIO service will be fully supported by advanced back office systems and delivered through regular Account Management meetings, virtually or in person.
Have you been receiving texts from political candidates, manufacturers, insurance companies, fundraising campaigns, or any other strange messages? If so, you’re probably scratching your head wondering how they got your phone number because you know for a fact that you have never sent them texts before. There’s a simple explanation for those unexplained texts. It’s called “smishing”, and it has become extremely common. Not only is it annoying, but worse, it can be troubling.
How much company data do you store on your smartphone? How much company data do your employees store on their smartphones?
When it comes to mobile device security, it's usually an afterthought. However more company data and business are now being done on mobile devices than ever before.
You'll learn in the next 5 minutes some of the easiest things you can do to secure your company smartphones.
Apple has released security updates for its iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac computers that close a vulnerability reportedly exploited by invasive spyware built by NSO Group, an Israeli security company in the iMessage software that allowed hackers to infiltrate a user's phone without the user clicking on any links.
One of the biggest questions among PC users today is the validity of power saver mode and its effect on your overall PC performance. Today we will target the facts and the fiction surrounding Power Saver mode and how the performance and load times are affected.