Jeremy and I were going through some old equipment yesterday at a client who is moving offices and we found the IBM Personal Portable Computer from 1984. This isn’t something you see everyday. It has brought back powerful memories to Diana, who was in the first batch of six employees at Ford of Europe to […]
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I can hear you groan from here – “Why does he want to talk about passwords again? We know about passwords…”. Why am I talking about Passwords? I was talking with friends last week – not clients – and I was asked what exactly I do at Octagon Technology. Diana takes care of the statutory
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It can be amazing how long people will sit and put up with something mildly uncomfortable without even realising. From bad shoes and hard chairs to hunched shoulders, its easy to get accustomed. Thankfully there are some easy to find features on your computer which can at least reduce eye strain from your screens. If
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Bulk Email One of the challenges of email marketing is to ensure that your messages reach the intended recipients and do not end up in the spam folder. To achieve this, you need to use a reliable and secure email service provider that can handle bulk email delivery. One of the features that you should
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Before we start – floppies were an acceptable small business back-up in 1995, when we started Octagon Technology. I have an IT and Cyber Security checklist for my initial meetings with clients – obviously. When I get to the part where I ask about their back-up the tone of the answer can tell me a
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Following on from my July article where I told you about our excellent IT support services… but that could just be sales talk. Let me explain how we get to help our clients in the way we do. IT Support I will start with the people. We have a well trained and experienced small team
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Yesterday I wrote the opening chapter of this defence-in-depth article – I looked at how anti-virus protection can be side-stepped by threat actors and that staff cyber awareness training is needed to provide another layer to your defences. That was a human addition to your defence-in-depth and today we are going to look at more
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Into the bin it goes ! It is generally recommended that when you throw away house rubbish that you do not include intact personal information. To avoid electronic dumpster diving and people getting your (PII) such as bank accounts, NI numbers, ID and such. This is because naughty people can and will look through bins
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Setting up a PC in the 90’s? IT is moving on and back in the 90’s we had to set up PCs using floppy disks from scratch. We would have to literally build the PC from circuit boards and wires then put the operating system on with floppy disks. Each floppy disk would only contain
