1. Cloud Signatures Coming Soon to Outlook for Windows Launching soon: Your email signature will now be shared across all the Windows (Microsoft 365) or Web Outlook screens that you use. You will no longer need to reconfigure your signatures when getting a new...
There's nothing worse than having to muck around with your 365 access, especially when different time zones are involved. Currently, the majority of companies have their Microsoft 365 login restricted to NZ and Australian IP addresses. That's working well to...
Cloud applications and services have proved invaluable over the last few years. They've enabled us to operate our businesses and look after our clients during various states of lockdown and social distancing restrictions. For example, nearly every legal firm we...
Over the last month, we’d heard about this happening in the US and now it seems to be happening in NZ as well. Cyber insurers are working hard to mitigate their risk and that includes stepping up their testing of their clients. Right now, that appears to be more...
We’ve moved! Our shiny new offices are only about 150m from the old ones and move us from Tower Junction to be a little closer to Riccarton. As of the start of October, we're now at 11 Leslie Hills Drive. Come and visit and check out the new space!The...
While Kinetics works across several industries, from retail to manufacturing, distribution to design, and many amazing not-for-profit organisations, it is professional services and especially legal that are our largest sector. We really understand IT for mid-size law...
Free public WiFi can be tempting.Whether it is in cafe, an airport or a shopping centre, free Wi-Fi is very tempting. Who wouldn’t want faster data, without the cost. But, as with anything that is free, be very careful! It is very easy to become a victim of something...
We lost a month! No August newsletter. Apologies for that (although you probably have so many emails and messages that you may not have noticed). We're super busy - here's what is going on!Our Christchurch office is moving. Our new office is just up the road from the...
!Right now, there’s a crypto-locked server in the lab in our Kinetics Auckland Office. It’s not from one of our clients, but a business that’s come to us, after the event, asking for help. We are busy rebuilding it and restoring the data and configuration to the...
Given the scale of cyber-attacks, we aren’t surprised to be hearing reports of insurers applying a "duty of care" test before agreeing to pay out. Despite sending chills up your spine, when you consider this, it makes sense as Insurers do the same thing to vehicles,...