by Andrew Hunt | Sep 10, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
When you read about the ransomware attacks, such as those on Honda, Garmin, Toll, Fisher and Paykel and Lion, it’s easy to think these attacks only target large enterprises. Unfortunately, that would be a mistaken view. The reality is that all businesses are under...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 31, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
It feels it’s like a daily occurrence for one of our clients to be asking for assistance with a security compliance questionnaire from their client. Most of these are being driven by corporates with international footprints. This becomes complex as each...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 27, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
The numbers are staggering. We always get a few clients saying “My organisation is too small, cyber-criminals won’t attack us”. We can state with absolute certainty that this is a fallacy. Cyber Criminals are targeting every sized organisation...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 26, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Cyber-Crime is big business. The criminals are organised and sophisticated. Imagine if they put their ingenuity to things that are good? But alas, that’s not reality. Instead we have to brace ourselves to deal with another wave of crime. Deathstalker is a...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 19, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Parliament recently passed the new Privacy Act, which comes into effect on 1 December 2020. This introduces stricter measures around the storing, sharing and breach of personal information and gives the Privacy Commissioner more powers. Every organisation should have...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 4, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
The best way that security can be managed when Working From Home (WFH) is to ensure the WFH devices are known to be patched, have AV, and are monitored. There is always going to be a risk if the device is not monitored as you won’t know what the patch/AV status is,...
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