Blog / Facebook scraped for massive amounts of data In case you haven’t heard, Facebook has had a data breach. A big one. How big? A little over 500 million records (about 20% of it’s users). In fact it was so big that the website haveibeenpwned.com added a totally new search feature when the information was posted. So yeah, it was pretty big. But how did […] April 12, 2021
Blog / Business Intelligence for SMBs No doubt you’ve heard of the concept of business intelligence by now. It’s an old idea that has gained new recognition in recent history thanks to our modern interconnectedness and computing power. Once used solely by big brands and large multinationals, business intelligence has evolved dramatically over its surprisingly long history and is now a […] April 08, 2021
Blog / The Cloud: Soft, Fluffy, and Secure “The Cloud” is often touted as being the greatest thing since sliced bread. It’s amazing! It’s fast, it’s secure, it’s inexpensive, and it’s [insert your favourite feature here]! Honestly with the list of great features and things it can do, it’s a wonder that anyone buys there own computers anymore, right? But is the Cloud […] April 04, 2021
Blog / April Fools’ Day Every Day? Celebrating April Fools’ Day is a good way to build team spirit and have some fun with your colleagues, now more than ever. With so many of our team members working remotely we all want to create more camaraderie with our co-workers, and harmlessly respectful pranks are a great way to do just that. Unfortunately, […] April 01, 2021
Blog / Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans What do you do in the event of a fire in office? Not a small one mind you, a big one. What about a flood? Have you considered an earthquake? What do you do (as a business) when things go horribly, terribly, massively, wrong? You turn to your Disaster Recovery(DR) and/or Business Continuity(BC) plans. These […] March 29, 2021
Blog / How Much Good Do VPN’s Really Do? Over the past few decades, the internet has become increasingly important to businesses of every size and variety. From its inception in the 80s to its widespread adoption in the late 90s and early 00s to its vast size and increasing complexity of the modern day, businesses have come to rely on internet access as […] March 25, 2021
Blog / What is Social Engineering? When most people think about hacking they normally picture something out the movies. You know the scene; some hooded hacker at a keyboard performing all sorts of technological wizardry to get around a computer’s defenses. Unfortunately that’s also exactly how most organizations set up their hacking defenses. The problem is there’s a hole in that […] March 22, 2021
Blog / Is your IT ready for employees to return? Now is the time to prepare your offices for the new work world. With COVID-19 vaccines finally being deployed across the country, there’s hope for a return to normalcy, or at least something like it, over the coming months. Working remotely may be a useful tool for extreme situations and occasional work-from-home days, but there’s […] March 18, 2021
Blog / Canada-Wide Microsoft Teams Outage (UPDATED) On March 15, 2021, we (and thousands of other businesses) experienced issues with our phone system (based on Microsoft Teams). There was a Canada-wide outage for Teams and we were unable to receive calls. At approximately 4:15PM, we were able to restore use of our phone systems. We apologize for the inconvenience. March 15, 2021
Blog / Phishing Emails – Effective for hackers, hard to detect for filters Phishing emails and spam both come at you through the same medium: email. That means the defenses against both are also the same. It’s down to your spam filtering to keep you protected from spam and other harmful email messages. Spam filtering checks can be configured as either hard or soft checks. The terms hard and soft don’t refer […] March 15, 2021
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