Tag #ITPolicy

The leaver: gone – but too often forgotten

You’ve had the farewell drinks. You’ve signed the ‘Good luck’ card and wished your soon to be former colleague well in their new role.

It’s unlikely the next thing you do is tell them to keep a spare set of keys for their company car and pop back any time they like to have a spin.

No one would dream of being this lax with their physical assets when an employee leaves their company

It is astonishing how many firms are not similarly vigilant when it comes to their digital assets. For example, do you know how many of your former employees still have login details for your main corporate Wi-Fi network? If not, it is a cyber equivalent of having a pool of unauthorised key holders for the company car fleet. There could be little to prevent those past colleagues standing outside the building and having a quick surf to see what they can find. If they feel aggrieved over the circumstances of their departure, that risk may be increased. Read More

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What should be included in a business continuity plan?

Unpalatable, but predictable

You’ll be glad to know this isn’t another Coronavirus article. Businesses have been faced with severe threats to their survival long before anyone had heard of COVID-19 – floods, fires and other localised disruptions are not new. Pandemics do remind us however that unpalatable events can and will happen.

COVID-19 is unusual in recent history because its consequences for business have been so severe and so widely felt. And it brings into sharp focus the relationship between likelihood and impact. Once in a lifetime events are, by definition, very rare. But when they do strike the pain can be relatively high. We may be less able, or perhaps less willing (sometimes with justifiable good reason), to prepare. And – yes – let’s be honest – that justification may be that reducing the risk is prohibitively expensive and we decide therefore that it is a risk worth taking. Read More

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ADVICE YOU CAN TRUST, TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT YOU CAN RELY ON

If you are looking for IT support in Sheffield or South Yorkshire, then you have found the right company. Whether you are a start-up business, SME or larger enterprise, EasylifeIT™ has been helping businesses like yours across the UK for over a decade.

From conception, through implementation and systems management to securing your system and data, our team offers expertise and experience in the following key technology areas:

• IT strategy and consultancy
• IT project management and implementation
• IT management, support and Crisis Prevention
• IT Security and Cyber Essentials
• IT compliance and risk management
• Telecoms, VOIP and Unified Communications

What we do differently

Established in 2006, EasylifeIT™ was born from an absolute conviction that there was huge room for improvement in our industry and we believed then (as we do now) that we could service our clients to a much higher and more professional standard. We achieve this by:

• Using a Crisis Prevention system to stop little issues becoming big problems
• Offering “IT Support on Demand”
• Training even our first line staff to Microsoft Certified level
• Giving you a direct, freephone line to the engineers who can actually fix your problen

We haven’t reinvented the wheel; it’s actually a surprisingly simple formula; using technology well and ensuring our customer service and technical expertise surpass our own high level expectations.

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ADVICE YOU CAN TRUST, IT SUPPORT YOU CAN RELY ON

If you are looking for an IT company in Norwich or Norfolk, then you have found the right place. Whether you are a start-up business, SME or larger enterprise, EasylifeIT™ has been helping businesses like yours across the UK for over a decade.

From conception, through implementation and systems management to securing your system and data, our team offers expertise and experience in the following key technology areas:

• IT strategy and consultancy
• IT project management and implementation
• IT management, support and Crisis Prevention
• IT Security and Cyber Essentials
• IT compliance and risk management
• Telecoms, VOIP and Unified Communications

What we do differently

Established in 2006, EasylifeIT™ was born from an absolute conviction that there was huge room for improvement in our industry and we believed then (as we do now) that we could service our clients to a much higher and more professional standard. We achieve this by:

• Using a Crisis Prevention system to stop little issues becoming big problems
• Offering “IT Support on Demand”
• Training even our first line staff to Microsoft Certified level
• Giving you a direct, freephone line to the engineers who can actually fix your problen

We haven’t reinvented the wheel; it’s actually a surprisingly simple formula; using technology well and ensuring our customer service and technical expertise surpass our own high level expectations.

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IT support in Peterborough

ADVICE YOU CAN TRUST, IT SUPPORT YOU CAN RELY ON

If you are looking for an IT support in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire or the East Midlands, then you have found the right page. Whether you are a start-up business, SME or larger enterprise, EasylifeIT™ has been helping businesses like yours across the UK for over a decade.

From conception, through implementation and systems management to securing your system and data, our team offers expertise and experience in the following key technology areas:

• IT strategy and consultancy
• IT project management and implementation
• IT management, support and Crisis Prevention
• IT Security and Cyber Essentials
• IT compliance and risk management
• Telecoms, VOIP and Unified Communications

EasylifeIT™ Crisis Prevention System explained

Most major problems start as small issues, often unnoticed or have been ignored due to other pressures. Our experience conclusively shows; it is cheaper long term to be pro-active about support and deal with glitches when they are more easily resolved.

Our Crisis Prevention System helps us to head problems off before they impact your business operations and continuity.

Key benefits

• Keeps us informed so we can deal with any issues quicker; often before you have even noticed
• Improves the security of your data and systems
• Ensures your server and/or PC’s keep running at their best
• Delivers a daily report of backups, security and system health direct to your Inbox

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