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Here is the low down on two of the most common ransomware scams that you need to know about. The pay rise/redundancy scam Cyber criminals create an email that looks similar to that of a director. For [...]
When a major IT incident occurs, disaster recovery and business continuity plans come into their own. With a cool head CEOs, CIOs, IT directors and other key people can do a lot towards limiting damage [...]
Most of us in the IT industry are constantly being reminded that the 'Internet of Things' is the next big thing. It is a concept that is somewhat perplexing for us IT people and no [...]
What kind of business protection do you have in place? Public liability insurance, business premises and assets insurance, professional indemnity insurance? No doubt your business has a host of insurance policies, but what about your [...]
Pro Drive will be joining in at the Kelly's Cross Country Challenge on Sunday 16th October, located in the beautiful grounds of Loseley Park - the home of our offices. There are plenty of options from walks, [...]
Not many businesses or organisations can turn the sign on the door to ‘closed’, switch off the lights and forget about work until the following morning. In today’s world most business need to be ‘always [...]
Having read with interest a BBC article about the continued growth in the use of banking apps versus the ongoing decline in the use of web-based banking facilities, I started to wonder what this trend meant in [...]
Security experts are warning businesses of a dangerous new virus, based on the Locky ransomware, named Klepto Zepto. The Zepto malware has been carried in nearly 140,000 spam messages sent over four days last week. [...]
All organisations need a Business Continuity Plan to ensure that if the worst happens (or even something slightly bad) there are clear steps to take to get operations back up and running as quickly as [...]
What was once a couple of physical doors that kept your office safe, is now a multitude of virtual doors that you can’t control. For example, in the case of Spear Phishing emails criminals are targeting [...]
For those of us in the IT industry the words 'BT' and 'Openreach' usually cause a bit of a groan coupled with an all too familiar expectation of poor service with very little accountability. The [...]
Security experts are warning businesses of a dangerous new virus, based on the Locky ransomware, named Klepto Zepto. The Zepto malware has been carried in nearly 140,000 spam messages sent over four days last week. [...]
As the dust settles on the Brexit vote, and politicians and party members decide who should be in charge of triggering Article 50, business leaders are left thinking ‘what happens now?’ Many organisations have already [...]
PowerApps is a very dramatic sounding name isn't it? So what are they? Well they are Microsoft's attempt to help drive an explosion of bespoke workplace applications that connect to the stuff we store in [...]
Companies today face an unprecedented number of exposures. The frequency and severity of cyber-attacks presents an ever growing threat, and reliance on a complex network of technology and supply chains is expanding. Both trends leave [...]
Is cyber security on the agenda in your boardroom? In the most recent Cyber Governance Health Check it was found that 33% of boards have ‘clearly set and understood their appetite for cyber risk’, up [...]
Productivity apps are all the rage at the moment, although – as we said in our previous blog – should not be considered a 'magic bullet' to organising your schedule or curing procrastination. Microsoft, who [...]
Pro Drive are absolutely delighted to have been recognised by MSP Mentor in the MSPmentor 501 top 501 IT Managed Service Providers for the third year running. The MSPmentor 501 is a distinguished list identifying the world’s [...]
I have just been to an excellent seminar on productivity – or, more specifically, how to avoid productivity 'traps'. This subject is close to my heart because our clients are investing in new technology specifically to [...]
A study by a security firm, Proofpoint, identified that social engineering was the top cyber attack technique in 2015. Instead of focusing on automated attacks as in previous years, attackers are getting you, or your [...]
