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Are you looking for easy-to-understand yet empowering insight into the world of IT and digital technology? Our cyber blog covers comprehensive guides, in-depth discussions and detailed reports into the essential IT topics your business needs to know about. From cyber security and digital threats to executing IT strategy and digital transformation plans, our blog is your user-friendly window into the ever-changing world of business IT.
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Our Blog: Written by Experts, Created for You
The team at Optimising IT are award-winning experts, qualified across a range specialist areas including IT consultancy, cyber security, data compliance and more. Secure industry-leading insight and improve your business IT services with a group of senior IT figures proud to have over 100 years of combined experience in information technology.
Is There a Weak Link in Your Supply Chain?
Cyber Essentials should be your minimum threshold for any supplier. Any supplier handling or processing card payments on your behalf should implement the appropriate level of PCI DSS. Our Cyber-security team is helping an increasing number of organisations, by providing independent supplier security reviews and ongoing supplier management using our proven framework.
Are All Information Security Standards Equal?
Information security standards are good news for many reasons, not least of which I believe is their primary purpose – they offer assurance. The reason they offer assurance is that they have been drafted, reviewed and implemented by very competent, experienced and certified individuals and are recognised in the industry and public sector.
How to Implement Remote Working: An Expert’s Tech Guide
In this article, we will look at how you can benefit from this remote-working shift. We will cover how to identify who in your team can carry out remote work, which tasks can be completed remotely, how to organise it all, and how technology can help you get the best results.
GDPR Fines for Small Businesses: Yes, You Should Be Worried
May 2018 saw the European Union adopt a new set of data protection laws called the General Data Protection Regulation — now ominously known as the GDPR. Since its inception, the UK government body responsible for cracking down on GDPR breaches, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has been busy.
Supply Chain Cyber Attacks
With regulation authorities focusing on operational resilience, it’s never been more important for organisations to demonstrate how quickly they can recover from operational disruption. Even if your business is well protected from Cyber-attacks the same can’t always be said for your suppliers. Discover our top 4 tips for a robust supplier management strategy and how to manage Cyber risk to improve Cyber resilience documented in the Allianz 2020 Business Risk Barometer.
What Is Shadow IT?
What exactly is Shadow IT? Shadow IT is hardware or software that is predominately cloud-based and used by staff without IT’s knowledge, with no testing or approval given by IT or compliance.
IT Outsourcing: What Is It and How Do You Do It?
IT outsourcing and co-sourcing are two of the biggest business trends right now. This article will take an in-depth look at what IT outsourcing is, why so many businesses are outsourcing their IT, and how you can do the same.
What Are the Benefits of Managed IT Services?
Are you interested in learning about the benefits of managed IT services? Today, our expert IT consultants explore this topic in detail. But before we do, let’s quickly cover the basics. What exactly is managed IT?
How the Solorigate (Sunburst) Cyber Attack Could Have Been Prevented
The compromise of the Solarwinds Orion monitoring platform is no doubt, one of the most impactful Cyber Attacks ever – not because it caused any disruption or encrypted any data, but because it involved the compromise of software source code from a reputable company and went un-noticed for what is, in cyber terms, a very long time.
The Growing Threat of Email Hijacking
We asked Todd Gifford, our resident Information Security expert, for his take on the risks posed to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) from email system hijacking (Otherwise known as Business Email Compromise). Here’s what he had to say on this growing security threat:
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Optimising IT is an award-winning IT service provider with industry-leading accreditations and partnerships with major technology suppliers. But all this means absolutely nothing without happy and satisfied customers.
So what do our previous business service clients have to say?
MIKE HOTARD
GROUP IT MANAGER, H.R. OWEN
Customers of H.R. Owen have very high expectations of service. To meet that expectation H.R. Owen need support partners that share the same ethos of service excellence. Optimising IT delivered that service.
DANIEL TAYLOR
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, AUTORAMA UK LIMITED
As a consultative partner, Optimising IT are helping to shape the Network, IT Services and Security strategy to help underpin our ambitious growth strategy. They have taken time to understand our requirements and develop an IT strategy to meet those needs.
TIM STYLES
GROUP CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, NGAGE
Optimising IT made some compelling commitments during our IT Services partnership evaluation stage. It has been refreshing that they have delivered on their promises and executed an expedited implementation program that exceeded our high expectations. This is a true partnership between Optimising IT and nGAGE to deliver a great user experience for our staff.