Check out this short video outlining Brother’s anti-intrusion detection, end-to-end encryption, user access restriction options, anti-fraudulent toner technology, and more!
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Don’t miss what Forrester Research is saying about enterprise email security – Barracuda has been named a leader in the recent Forrester Wave Enterprise Email Security report. Email is the leading source of modern cyber-threats which makes selecting the right enterprise email security is critical to your business success – this is vital […]
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As an awarded and trusted NHS Supply Chain partner, we’ll be bringing some great deals to you on a regular basis. This week we have some great HP and Brother printer and toner deals for you. HP Offer – only £13.99 each or a pack of 4 (all colours) for only £40.00! WAN3904 Comp HP […]
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Complete IT Systems were proud to be one of the sponsors for the recent One in a Million (OIAM) Charity Quiz Night. The evening was a massive success for this great charity, with 50 Corporate Partners and guests including ourselves being treated to an engaging presentation by David Seymour about the history and rise of Northern […]
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Conversations about GDPR and print security can be pretty awkward, or at the very least a little uncomfortable. So let’s make this quick! The first perception is that GDPR compliance for businesses involves costly investment. But this does not necessarily have to be the case. And it certainly doesn’t have to be as clumsy and […]
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Using Office 365 for your business productivity tools certainly has many advantages; easy, user-friendly accessibility 
from anywhere and at anytime, simplified email access, and reduced costs of business operations and management.
However, the migration and use of Office 365 isn’t without security risks. In this article we look at 5 of those risks, and how your organisation can get best in class protection from ourselves and Barracuda solutions.
Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 stops spam, viruses, and known malware using signature-matching that leverages Barracuda’s vast global threat intelligence system, which gathers real-time threat data from millions of collection points around the world. It also includes a subscription to Barracuda Advanced Threat Protection—a cloud-based service that uses a multilayered architecture with a CPU-emulation sandbox to detect and block new (zero-day) and advanced, evasive threats before they touch your deployment.
Outbound email filtering protects sensitive data against accidental or deliberate leaking. You can define keywords to look for, along with specific types of data (social-security and credit-card numbers, for example). And if your users have inadvertently allowed their systems to be used for botnet spam, Essentials ensures that outgoing spam and viruses are blocked.
Sensitive emails can be manually marked for encryption, or you can set up rules to automatically encrypt emails based on the sender, content, and other criteria. Your Office 365 emails are sent to the Barracuda Message Center for 256-bit encryption in the cloud. They remain encrypted via Transport Layer Security (TLS) until they reach the intended recipients.
The email files stored in your Office 365 environment almost certainly include latent threats—malicious URLs and attachments that are just waiting for a single distracted click to launch an attack on your network. Given the volume and variety of threat-bearing emails, it’s not realistic to consider a manual approach to finding and deleting them all.
The Barracuda Email Threat Scanner is a cloud-based service available to anyone, at no charge. It scans your Office 365 email folders using advanced analytic techniques. It then delivers a report that details all the latent threats, including risk levels, affected users, and more. The information not only lets you clear out the latent threats in your environment; it also gives you the insights you need to adjust or improve your email security policies and strategies to reduce the chance of more malicious email getting into your system.
The most sophisticated email-based attacks are the ones that personal. Attackers convincingly impersonate legitimate businesses, colleagues and even customers to obtain sensitive data and money. Barracuda Sentinel uses artificial intelligence engine to add real-time defense from email-based fraud.
Barracuda Sentinel automatically learns the unique communication patterns of each individual organisation. It uses this knowledge to find anomalous signals in the attributes of the incoming message’s metadata and content. It also adds DMARC (Domain-Based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance) to track potentially sensitive emails being sent from your organisation.
Phishing attacks are more convincing than ever, and they can be difficult to spot. To complicate matters, the attackers are targeting unsecured personal mail accounts more than ever. As a last line of defence, employees need to get better at spotting socially engineered spear phishing attacks.
Barracuda PhishLine provides leading-edge user awareness training to counter sophisticated phishing and socially engineered spear phishing attacks. PhishLine helps your users sharpen their anti-phishing skills with advanced phishing simulations along with end-user testing, reporting, and comprehensive metrics that let you take prompt and meaningful action against threats.
As Barracuda Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.
To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.
….just a free 5-minute guide to lowering your print costs.
Have you got five minutes to talk about printing? Probably not (unless you’re Dave). You’re busy. Business is fast-moving and your IT department is under pressure to support it. You’re fielding a million and one other conversations. It’s OK; we get it.
Let’s cut to the chase: our latest guide gives you a 5-minute summary of how to save on printing by cutting out hidden costs. Read this report to take action now.
As you were.
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In a survey of UK, French and German midmarket and large companies, Quocirca found that only 22% of all the businesses surveyed were completely satisfied that their print infrastructure was secure. That could be an awkward conversation to have in the age of stringent data privacy.
GDPR compliance and secure printing in particular can seem daunting. Yet businesses need to get these areas locked down or else face potential fines of €20 million (£17.6 million) or 4% of their global turnover – after a slow start, hefty GDPR fines are starting to happen – almost 100 in conservative estimates as of February.
The other reminder from this is that GDPR isn’t all about online data – breaches can also occur as a result of documents carelessly left at printers or around the office. But companies operating a standardised printer fleet are 26% less likely to suffer data loss.
You can avoid awkward privacy and security vulnerability questions with a secure print set-up.
We’re doing it again – saying that nobody wants printer conversations, and then starting a printer conversation! But it need not be difficult, or awkward. Network-connected printers can be a route into your company for cyber criminals. For example, if default passwords are still in use or your Wi-Fi network is unsecure, your printing is vulnerable. By failing to tackle these potential weak spots, your business is in danger of GDPR’s heavy-weight penalties.
Make sure printer security doesn’t put your business in peril – read this report to take action now, or watch this short video to see the key aspects of Brother’s print security solutions.
By working with Complete IT Systems and Brother, you can also avoid running the risk of being Dave – download your copy of the guide to print security here!
See how Complete IT Systems and Brother can help your business here.
Quocirca Managed Print Services Landscape, 2017
8 months of GDPR: 59,000+ reported breaches, 91 fines.
Quocirca, Print Security: An Imperative in the IoT Era, January 2017.
Backup is one of those activities that is frequently discussed and fretted over, but still not acted upon nearly as regularly as it should be. As part of our buildup to World Backup Day (31st March in case you were wondering!), we’re discussing the need for all-year-round effective backup and data recovery for businesses of all sizes.
The reality is that too often, it’s still not done correctly. It’s easy to treat World Backup Day as a once-yearly reminder, but it’s also a good reminder to get your organisation’s cyber security fit for purpose in the modern era of security risks.
The starting point for this is to get a robust and reliable backup and data recovery (BDR) solution in place.
The first step in the process is making sure that your wider organisation and management team understand the need for data protection – it’s not just “IT’s job”.
With the rise in ransomware and other types of attacks, every business (even smaller ones) needs a documented back up and data recovery plan that is built on a managed data protection service, and is able to recover data when there is a problem.
The cost of data loss and the time and manpower it takes to rebuild servers and computers from scratch.
The price of BDR is always going to be a lot less than the cost of data loss or the reputation loss caused by a ransomware attack. There are also many more options available now for storing data outside the four walls of a your office. It’s easier to back up data, store it, and retrieve it than it was in the past, making cost and convenience objections moot.
Besides making sure you back up your organisation’s data both on-premise and offsite, ensure you have a viable recovery plan in place, and that appropriate staff members know what that plan is. It’s also crucial that backups occur regularly — preferably daily. The OS and applications should be part of the backup process as well, and remote user data should be included.
Testing is critical. It’s the only way to validate your ability to restore from a backup. A complete disaster recovery test should be conducted at least once a year, but it’s better if it happens quarterly or monthly. By testing, you can confirm that the data you need is viable and that if something goes wrong, it can be remedied quickly.
While data protection is important year round, World Backup Day is an opportunity to remind yourself about the importance of disaster recovery (DR) and ensure your business has a robust recovery plan in place. Once you’ve backed up your data, make sure that you have the tools and resources in place to make backups more frequent, automated, and reliable across your customer base.
Check out this short video to learn more about Barracuda’s backup solutions:
As Barracuda Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the solutions and how they could be effectively deployed in your business.
To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.
We’re under no illusions – nobody wants a conversation about printers. Maybe that’s why so many SMBs in the UK (52%, according to some surveys) are turning a blind eye to the cost of their printing. Because if they knew what they were spending (£10,000-a-year-plus in many cases) they most likely wouldn’t be able to keep quiet about it and would want to reduce printing wastage.
You can avoid a hidden costs discussion about printers by tackling your organisation’s print expenses head-on. We start our series on ‘how to avoid printer conversations’ with some hints and tips about how to reduce wastage in our guide to the hidden costs of printing.
Companies are throwing money away on unnecessary printing, the needless use of colour and abandoned print jobs. Personnel can print without limitations and lack the training to print in a responsible way.
The reality is that you can shave 10% to 30% off your print budget by actively managing your organisation’s printing behaviour. Here’s how.
Every office can do better when it comes to waste, and printing is no exception. The top three areas to reduce printing wastage are:
Fact: The average employee leaves 600 pieces of paper at the printer every year, and wastes an eye-watering 6,800 sheets per year.
Training, of course, is a great way to help us change our behaviour and tackle the problem of waste. But there are several other changes that could have a more immediate impact.
Brother’s PrintSmart Cost Control is a print management solution that lets you track what, when and how much each employee prints to reduce printing wastage. It enables you to identify the departments and individuals who may need additional training in reducing waste. To help them along, you can also apply quotas, limiting their printing output. Stop abandoning those poor print jobs.
By introducing pull printing, employees will have to actively release print jobs at the device, helping to eradicate lost and forgotten output. What’s more, by setting default options to economical settings, you can cut back on the volume of colour, single-page and high-resolution printing.
In short, no.
Your old printers may have served you well, but how much is your loyalty really costing? The older the printer, for example, the more likely that it consumes significant amounts of energy even when it’s idle.
Modern printers are on average 35.6% more efficient than their predecessors.
By working with Complete IT Systems and Brother, you can also avoid running the risk of being Dave – download your copy of the guide to the hidden costs of printing here!
See how Complete IT Systems and Brother can help your business here.
https://www.newmanbs.co.uk/blog/article/how-much-paper-does-your-organisation-waste
