What constitutes a good password and why it is important to have one?
Quite simply; your password is the key to your IT castle. The walls you carefully build around your business data are of little value if the front door lock…
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EasylifeIT™ is now a Cyber Essentials certified company, and can help you achieve it too!
Cyber Essentials (CE) is a government-backed cyber security certification scheme that sets out a baseline of cyber security suitable for all organisations. The scheme's five security controls can prevent “around…
Security advisory: US and Canadian governments issue cyber alert for ransom-ware
Every week seems to bring news of high profile cases of new ransom-ware attacks. Its nasty stuff; nasty enough that the US and Canadian authorities yesterday issued a rare joint…
Why are top managers often the targets of cyber criminals?
Why are top managers often the targets of cyber criminals? As top managers of SMEs, we expect and demand access to all data within our company. While we may consider…
Lincolnshire Council shut down for “several days” by ransomware
One of our more technically aware customers, Alison Turnock of David Turnock Architects, alerted us to a story yesterday relating to ransomware and Lincolnshire Council; whose system was shut down for…