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The Importance of Regularly Auditing Your Privileged Cloud Accounts
When you set up new users in cloud accounts and other company systems, one of the first steps during setup is to decide what type of access that person will have. This will enable or restrict users as to what they can see and do in a particular application or SaaS...
What Are the Benefits of Migrating from Physical Computers to Windows 365 Cloud PC?
Over the last two years, companies have moved most of their data and work processes to the cloud out of necessity. The pandemic drove a major shift to a remote workforce globally. And even now, many companies plan to keep a hybrid working model with employees working...
Are You Aware of These Dangerous New Phishing Trends?
Phishing has lasted so long as the main method of attack for multiple threats because it has continued to evolve. It has become more sophisticated over the years and has taken advantage of technologies like AI. The increase in the efficiency of these attacks has made...
Why It’s Not a Good Idea to Sign Into Another Site with Your Google, Facebook, or Apple Account
The number of passwords that people have to keep track of has grown to approximately 100. Trying to create unique and strong passwords for that many accounts and remember them all is just about impossible for most people. This leads people to reuse passwords across...
What Are the Efficiency Advantages of Upgrading Our Office to Windows 11 Pro for Business?
Windows 11 is officially out and being rolled out now through the mid-next year to compatible Windows 10 devices. It’s a “friendly” update that isn’t as dramatic as the switch from Windows 7 to 10, yet still packs quite a few efficiency upgrades. Businesses planning...
What IT Policies Are the Most Important for Our Small Business?
If you’re a small business, you might not have paid much attention to IT policies, thinking that was something that only larger companies needed to worry about. But password security, acceptable use of company mobile devices, and how data breaches are handled are...
Are Your Employees Wasting Time Looking for Files? Learn How to Keep Them Organised
One of the activities that impact everyone that uses a computer or cloud storage is searching for files. We look for documents needed to do our work multiple times per day, and if those files are hard to find, it drags down productivity. A few extra minutes here and...
3 Helpful Tips for Deploying Multi-Factor Authentication Without a Lot of Employee Resistance
More than 70% of surveyed Singapore professionals say that their company is using more cloud services these days. During the pandemic-caused lockdown, Alibaba Cloud saw an increase of over 50% in demand for cloud computing technologies from companies of all...
What Steps Should We Take to Shut Down Unauthorised App Use?
There’s been an acceleration of SaaS (Software as a Service) use due to the pandemic. Companies that wanted to stay in operation had no choice but to move processes to a cloud environment to enable their employees to work from home. Even once the pandemic has passed,...
Why Has Ransomware Become So Bad & How Can We Protect Our Small Business?
Many of the large attacks you hear about in the news these days have to do with ransomware. For example, in May, the largest global producer of beef and pork, JBS, had to shut down facilities in the U.S, Australia, and Canada for several days due to a ransomware...
Virtual PCs Are About to Get Big! Learn What Windows 365 is All About
You may have heard about virtual PCs in the past, but it’s not really something that has caught on in the business world in a big way. That’s about to change because Microsoft just introduced its new cloud PC service called Windows 365. Microsoft is all about making...
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4 Reasons to be Worried About Cloud Jacking & What You Can Do to Prevent It
Over the past five years, much of the data that companies work with daily has been moved to the cloud. The cloud allows the flexibility of anywhere access to business apps and data. It has also been a necessity for keeping most businesses operating during the pandemic...
What Can You & Your Employees Expect from Windows 11 (Should You Upgrade?)
It’s been over five years since Windows 10 was released, and most people agree the operating system was a big step forward in productivity and ease of use. With the lifecycle of about ten years passing the halfway point, Microsoft has just announced the next...
Firmware Attacks Have Increased Dramatically – How to Protect Your Small Business Technology From a Breach
One type of cyberattack that’s caught many businesses off guard targets device firmware. Firmware attacks are often left undiscovered because there’s historically been a lack of transparency between the operating system (OS) and the software that tells hardware how to...
5 Ways That Using a Two-Monitor Setup Can Benefit Your Small Business
Did you know that one simple change in workflow could mean over 40% higher employee productivity? Several studies show that adding a second monitor makes a big difference when it comes to multiple tasks, such as finding information, referencing two+ documents at a...
4 Helpful Ways You Can Use Encryption to Prevent a Data Breach
Along with a disruption to the way we live and work, COVID-19 also brought a larger threat of cyberattack. 93% of businesses in Singapore reported an increase in cyberattacks as a result of the global pandemic. A data breach or malware infection can cost a small...
How Microsoft Is Reimaging Employee Engagement with MS Viva
The employee experience has changed a lot over the last year. Companies in Singapore and around the world had to send employees home to work in droves during the pandemic, and many are now considering keeping that arrangement permanently. This year, it’s expected...
What You Need to Know About the Microsoft Exchange Server Hack (It is time to move away from On-Premise email)
A major eruption hit the business technology world a few weeks ago when it was found that Microsoft Exchange Server had some major vulnerabilities being exploited around the world. This breach was so large and causing so many organizations of all sizes to be...
Biggest Product News from Microsoft Ignite 2021
Staying ahead of your competitors often has to do with having optimized business technology. Companies that are making better use of digital solutions are often more productive and see higher revenue per employee. In a study by Microsoft on SMEs in Singapore,...
Microsoft Productivity Score Overview: Supercharge Remote Teams
Microsoft 365 has been one of the cloud platforms that companies in Singapore and around the world have flocked to during the pandemic to keep remote teams connected. The applications, collaborative features as well as video and team messaging capabilities make it...
Pandemic Lessons Learned About Our Use of Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting Circuit Breaker here in Singapore have completely changed the way people live and work for roughly a year now. A majority of companies had to send employees home to work remotely and adjust to new ways to serve clients, such as...
Why Every Small Business Needs Effective Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Much of a company’s value and livelihood is held within its data. This includes data on customers, customer projects, product and service collateral, accounting entries, and much more. We’ve become used to searching in a cloud storage folder based on a keyword instead...
Do We Still Need Managed IT If We Use the Cloud?
The technology environment of today is in the cloud. The cloud has gone from being a new phenomenon to the standard way that businesses need to set up operations to be resilient and flexible. For any latecomers that were not yet using cloud processes at the beginning...
Two Big Apps Have or Will Be Losing Support Soon (Flash & IE). Here’s What You Need to Know
Technology marches on and evolves at a rapid pace. And part of that evolution is leaving behind outdated technologies, even those that may have been popular in their prime. Two names that used to be big in the online world are being phased out as we enter a new year....
The 6 Most Important Areas to Focus Your 2021 Cybersecurity Budget
According to a report by Channel News Asia, during the first part of 2020 COVID-19 related cyberattacks increased over 100x. Phishing, ransomware, data breaches, and other cyber threats became worse last year, spurred on by the disruption of the pandemic. In 2021,...
Are You Using These Important Microsoft 365 Security Settings
A survey of companies across 26 countries, including Singapore, found that 70% of businesses have suffered a public cloud breach within the last 12 months. Cloud security has become a major issue following the migration of a majority of organizations to cloud...
4 Reasons Your Freelance or Virtually Run Business Needs Managed IT Support
Two trends in the global workforce that have been accelerated by the pandemic are virtually run businesses and freelance workers. Both groups forgo the traditional office environment to reduce costs and rely heavily on cloud services to run their businesses from...
How Protected is Your Cloud Data? 7 Reasons You Need to Consider Datto SaaS Protection
When it comes to backup and recovery, most Singapore businesses understand the importance of making a backup copy of all the files that reside on their computers and servers. But with much of a company’s data is now located in cloud productivity platforms like G...
Can Our Small Business Save Money by Outsourcing IT Management?
When you’re a small business owner, you’re often balancing your budget with your needs. You may try to do as much yourself as possible because you feel it’s saving your business money. But there are some aspects of your business that can actually cost you more if you...