It’s a Sunday morning. I wake up and there is an email on my phone. It is from our Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) system. One of the servers we look after hasn’t communicated with the system for over 15 minutes. I get up, have a cup of tea then see if I can connect […]
Are your social media, email and other accounts actually secure? Passwords these days need to be more complicated than in previous times
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Here is an email we have sent to our clients Hi, You may have heard that Windows 11 has now been released by Microsoft. It will be a replacement to Windows 10. Many of our clients have asked how it will affect them and I thought it would be a good idea to let you
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Over the last couple of weeks I have been working with Microsoft through one of their security articles. As part of an investigation we needed something that could identify if malicious rules or forms could have been inserted into an organisation. For instance, if an email account gets hacked and your details are
Working with Microsoft and Security Read More »
Now most IT companies will be trying to figure this out and find out that there is absolutely no information contained in the logs. I was at one of our client’s offices yesterday and they had this issue. Strange that one minute it was working then print and reboot!! It has been traced now to
Windows 10 Reboots when I print! Read More »
Here are a few quick steps to take to solve some of the common problems you may experience with your email. Hopefully this may save you some time before calling for IT support – of course, if you would rather, you can call us (01522 797520) and one of our engineers will always be happy
Four fixes for you if you can receive email but cannot send it Read More »
Recently we were tasked with recovering a server from a malicious attack of malware. After the initial investigation we found that we could not just recover the files as it had got in too deep. So, we had to roll the server back to a previous image using one of our bespoke backup systems for
Are you sure you are secure? Read More »
Where is your personal and business data stored? I am writing this to let you all know that if you are currently using Google e.g (G-Suite) to store your data you should really think twice about keeping it there. As of the 31st March this year all Google services in the UK are going to
Google Changes 31st March 2020 – is your Business Data Safe? Read More »
Coronavirus – COVID-19 I am sure you are all aware of the current state of affairs relating to Coronavirus. Here at Octagon we are already helping businesses to be able to work from an isolated environment. The Government states that if you think you have Coronavirus the first thing you must do is to call
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