Tag: Sys Admin

Patching Applications to Maintain System Security

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In the digital age, it’s no secret that security is paramount. With the number of security breaches and data leaks increasing day by day, it is important to take measures to secure your data. One such measure is patching applications. Patching is the process of updating software, firmware, or hardware components to fix vulnerabilities and improve performance. In this post, we will discuss the importance of patching applications to maintain system security. What is a patch? A patch is a software update that fixes bugs, improves performance, and provides security updates. Patches can be applied to operating systems, applications, and… Continue reading

It’s not their fault, if you don’t educate.

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One of the biggest fears I have is having our server exposed to some form of crypto locker malware. And it’s also not a case of if it happens, but when, because it will. As an organisation that relies on digital information, it’s crucial to protect your business from malware attacks. Unfortunately, despite having robust anti-virus and anti-malware software in place, these measures are not enough to prevent every attack. Your frontline troops against malware are your users. Therefore, it’s crucial to educate and train them on how to identify and respond to potential threats. The first step to ensuring… Continue reading

Secure your online data

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October is Cyber Security Awareness MonthWe have touched on Updates and Passwords already, and last week we rambled about securing devices. If you missed it, find the previous posts. This week I want you to focus on what information you keep online. To be aware about what information is out there, what you share, and how you share it. So, I made a bit of a mistake.Now at the time it didn’t feel like a mistake. I thought what I did would be really useful, I thought it would help me connect to friends and relatives. I thought it would… Continue reading

Secure your Devices

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October is Cyber Security Awareness MonthWe have already touched on Updates and Passwords. If you missed it, find the previous posts.This week I want you to Secure Your Devices Most obvious here is to ensure you lock your device with a passphrase, password, PIN or passcode. Stay away from patterns, dates/years, PINs which translate directly to guessable words or names etc. These are easily guessable and don’t offer any real security. Make sure your device is set to automatically lock after a short amount of inactivity and if you are walking away from your device, remember to lock it before… Continue reading

Passwords

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October is Cybersecurity Awareness MonthHere is another tip to help you strengthen your personal Cyber security at homeIts Patch Tuwensday, did you get your automatic updates sorted? If you don’t know what I’m on about, go find last weeks tip. This week, lets focus on Passwords. Passwords are old, really old, and ever since they have been in use there have been people trying to crack them.Trying to remember a bunch of random characters is hard and when IT tells you that you should really have a separate password for each authentication service, it becomes impossible. How can we fix… Continue reading

Microsoft Outlook’s Work Offline Function

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Because working offline used to be a thing. Not getting email, or email not sending? Your Outlook mail client may have recognised that you were not connected to the internet, or couldn’t authenticate to the mail server, and ever so helpfully switched itself into Work Offline mode. When this is useful: Use your mail client without being connected to the internet, chewing up your precious bandwidth or data quota on processes the mail client runs. Remain productive while not connected to the network or while your mail client can’t authenticate your connection to the mail servers. Go back online when… Continue reading