The industry’s three leading independent testing agencies ranked VIPRE with the best of the best…again. AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, and Virus Bulletin are like the Consumer Reports of the antivirus software world. In fact, their reviews are so rigorous that some companies…
I’ve been thinking a lot about convenience and cyber security lately. Many of the most successful products and services make our lives more convenient. So much so that we take many of them for granted, probably to the point that…
Datto’s State of the Channel Ransomware Report covering Q2/2016 to Q2/2017 has just been released. It makes for reading that is simultaneously fascinating, unsurprising, shocking and downright worrying. You can download Datto‘s latest report on Ransomware here: 2017 Ransomware Report. A…
One of our clients recently fell victim to a ransomware attack. During our subsequent investigations and corrective action work it became apparent that this was (yet another) new variant of ransomware, with no decryption key available. So our client’s choice…
No, your Apple Mac is not secure Your Apple Mac is not secure. Whilst we were exhibiting recently we were doing our usual pitch as people walked by our stand – “do you have IT support? How do you manage…
Yorkshire Business Market We exhibited at the Yorkshire Business Market in Harrogate on 24th April 2017, highlighting the forthcoming requirements for GDPR compliance to attendees. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25th May 2018. We…
Foundations of IT Security I’ve been thinking a lot about triangles lately. Not the musical kind, but rather how they are such a useful (and simple) means of conveying building blocks and foundations. Notably the Foundations of IT Security: With this…
Another day/week/month another hack. It seems so commonplace now that we’re in danger of becoming immune to the fact that cyber crime is a constant threat to everyone – at a business and a personal level. So I’d like to…
Firewall Jargon Buster At CCS 2000 we’re all too aware that we can sometimes lapse into computer jargon, leaving the people we’re talking to totally bemused…! So in an attempt to help demystify some of the jargon in our industry,…
Pete Hannaford, Technical team leader at CCS 2000, recently completed the coast to coast walk in the UK. This is his blog about the walk! Sixty Two is probably not a good age to decide to do the coast to…
