by Andrew Hunt | Nov 16, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Cyber-crime is estimated to earn criminals US$7 Trillion a year That sort of money buys cyber criminals a lot of resources. It’s no surprise then that cybercrime has its own support industries. You don’t need to access the “Darknet” to purchase hacker...
by Andrew Hunt | Nov 12, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
In August we all heard about Team NZ falling prey to a $2.8 million invoice payment fraud. It was the now-familiar story of a fake or hacked email, asking for payment to go to a different bank account. We should all be familiar with these tales by now. I’m sure that...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 27, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Double Key Encryption (DKE) is coming soon to Microsoft 365 (E5 plans required) Like the name suggests, this is even MORE secure than the levels of encryption previously seen. Microsoft are saying that you need it if: You want to ensure that only you can ever decrypt...
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...
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