What storage is hot this summer?

If your business is creating data at relentless levels, you’re not alone. And as we know, keeping on top of cloud storage costs has its challenges.

This article looks at Wasabi, and how it enables organisations to store and instantly access an infinite amount of data at 1/5 of the price of the competition with no complex tiers.

3 reasons to look at Wasabi:

  • Costs 80% less than AWS S3, now you can afford to keep all your data!
  • Your data is always readily available; no long processing times or manual requests
  • Protects against hackers and errors with immutable storage

Protect your business from costly ransom payments and gain peace of mind that your data is securely backed up with Wasabi. Their immutable storage combined with a comprehensive backup strategy ensures your valuable data’s security and integrity.

It also provides solutions for varied use cases, including:

  • Cloud Computing – Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage seamlessly integrating with compute services
  • Archiving – Wasabi’s low price point means you can now store it all!
  • Backup & Recovery – Significantly reduce any operational downtime with instantly available
    backups
  • Content Delivery – Smoothly facilitating your web apps and videos, only the best for your users!
  • Surveillance – Store digital surveillance video at an affordable price
  • File acceleration – Low bandwidth? No problem! Get your data up in the cloud faster
  • Ransomware – Ultimate data protection with Wasabi
  • Internet of Things (IoT) – Scalable solutions ready to handle the billions of smart connected
    sensors and devices
  • AI/ML – Enable artificial intelligence and machine learning and be prepared with cost-effective
    data storage
  • Analytics – Quick and secure access to your data allows you to make the best decisions for your
    business, faster.

See how to gain optimal price, performance and protection with Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage:

 

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As a Wasabi Partner, 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.

Improving user security awareness

The precision engineering manufacturer Spectris needed to shift the focus of its employee training when many employees switched to working remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Spectris’ CISO relied on KnowBe4’s security awareness training and simulated phishing platform to provide flexible and relevant simulated phishing tests and training to ensure a holistic and tailored approach to security awareness.

Learn how KnowBe4’s platform allowed Spectris to:

  • Improve phishing email reporting from around 20% to 40% in a year
  • Launch courseware and training content in 40 languages
  • Have 98% of staff complete 10 training courses a year
  • Successfully deploy monthly simulated phishing tests

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of KnowBe4 specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

Could a 15 year old hack your systems?

Attackers are quick to exploit new opportunities for attack. The reporting of the Log4J bug in December 2021, for example, is believed to have led to a 150% increase in exploit activity the following year.

However, attackers rely extensively on long established approaches and home in on weaknesses that have often also been around for years.

▶ Read this article from Barracuda to find out the top malicious tactics, and separate the threats from the noise.

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Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

 

13 email threat types you should be aware of

Email security is a sweeping term, but what’s under the bonnet, and how do you protect your business from all the top email threats, including the sophisticated ones designed to slip through your secure gateway?

This eBook provides an in-depth look at today’s wide range of evolving email threats, including their risks and impacts on businesses, and how machine learning and API-based inbox defence can address the gaps in the email gateway and help provide total email protection against attacks.

  • Defend against sophisticated email threats that are able to bypass defences and wreak havoc using backdoor techniques, including spoofing, social engineering, and fraud.
  • Protect employees at the inbox level using the right combination of technology solutions and security-awareness training.
  • Use a multi-layered protection strategy to radically reduce susceptibility to email attacks and help better defend your business, data, and people.

▶ See all the latest threats, data, analysis, and solutions for yourself (instant download, no form required). 

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

Have you unlocked the potential of Zero Trust?

You may have heard the term Zero Trust doing the rounds. But what is it, and is it relevant to SMBs?

According to digital.com, “Zero trust isn’t a specific product, it’s a way of thinking about and constructing your security architecture, it operates on the idea that no one user, device, service, or programme is trusted inherently.”

With Zero Trust, you can provide seamless access to all levels of user, while maintaining strict authentication and verification to access particular SaaS applications, assets, data, or systems.

Is Zero Trust applicable to your business?

Zero Trust Access (ZTA) can increase security, productivity, and flexibility for your business. This recorded webinar from Barracuda shows how ZTA can be applied to:

  • Prevent unauthorised access to corporate resources and digital assets
  • Reduce your overall attack surface and risk of breaches
  • Secure the migration to a cloud-integrated infrastructure
  • Serve as the foundation of a successful SASE implementation
  • Improve remote access performance and employee productivity

You’ll see how Barracuda CloudGen Access secures SaaS applications, including Microsoft 365, and protects users from ransomware and other web threats.

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

Three ways to reduce risk with privileged access management

Effective management of privileges and credentials is essential for the security of your organisation. With 74% of data breaches happening due to privileged credential abuse, it’s an area that organisations must address. Cyber attackers can abuse credentials through several methods. The main approaches are social engineering and phishing, exploiting poor password hygiene and password reuse, and taking advantage of initial access brokers selling these credentials on the dark web.

To combat this, it’s vital to upgrade your approach to privileged access management. Here are three steps you can take to easily manage and secure your privileged access, helping to reduce the likelihood of both internal and external attacks:

  1. Simplify compliance reporting
  2. Deploy Zero Trust Network Access
  3. Secure contractor access to your business

➡️ Find out more in this eBook from Barracura.

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

Cyber security trends

Trying to keep on top of the latest cyber security threats can feel like a full-time job in itself. For overstretched IT teams, this is a problem.

This webinar features Barracuda CTO Fleming Shi and VP for Zero Trust Access Sinan Eren’s perspective on the top cybersecurity trends they’re following – and the predictions they’re making for 2023 and beyond.

In conversation, Fleming and Sinan will explain how the events of the past year inform their predictions for what’s coming. So you’ll understand clearly why they predict, for example, that:

  • By 2025 threat actors will have caused human casualties by weaponising operational technology.
  • More than half the organisations embracing zero trust as a starting point for security will fail to realise its benefits by 2025.
  • The number of nations imposing regulation of ransomware, payments, fines, and negotiations will rise from 1% now to 30% by 2025.

▶ Watch this recorded webinar to see the global cybersecurity landscape through the eyes of seasoned experts, and to understand what changes are likely, and why.

Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.

The two most important metrics for sustainable storage

When considering how sustainable an #ITstorage offering is, the two most important metrics are the capacity density and how much performance you can get for the energy that you use.

Check out this fun video to discover why the IBM FlashSystem family are the market leader for Sustainability.

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As IBM Silver Partners, Complete IT Systems have the skills and resources to help your business implement the best solutions for the modern workplace.

For more information on how Complete IT Systems and IBM can help, call 01274 396 213 or email .

 

Let’s talk about QR codes

QR codes can be a security risk. Have you covered the base?

We’ve all scanned those little tags on tables, adverts and such. You’re not alone! In 2022 there was a 433% increase in QR code scans from 21. Your users will be doing this to work productively, efficiently and get things done.

So what’s the problem?

A malicious link hidden in a QR code can bypass traditional email filters. Additionally, the tell-tale signs of a phishing link are not as apparent with a QR code because it is difficult to validate and lures your users to switch to their mobile device with weaker security protection.

KnowBe4 have developed a new FREE tool so you can test your end users on the type of attack. Scan now to get started (see how easy it is!)

▶ Or click the safer link here!

Improved storage performance and new capabilities

Our customer was initially looking at renewing the support on their existing storage provider, as it was due to expire.

The issue that first became apparent was the fact the vendor was withdrawing support for the current arrays within the next three months – which would have meant the leaving the client unsupported. With it being short notice and that we were approaching the financial year end, we had to ensure a cost-effective solution in quick time this it wasn’t a budgeted project. Here’s how we helped them.

The solution

Complete IT Systems in partnership with our partners IBM and TD Synnex worked together to scope and build a suitable replacement for the existing storage environment. With support from our technical teams, we proposed a FlashSystem 5200, which is IBM’s densest storage system, within the FlashSystem portfolio. This offers the customer benefits such as cyber resilience capabilities, immutability and FlashCore modules (IBM’s NVMe patent drives).

The result

All-in-all, this gave customer new levels of infrastructure performance, and new capabilities. We also provided the customer with finance options to enable them to install the Storage array sooner rather than later and over the term of the agreement. This has saved the company money compared to continual support renewals.

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Read more about storage’s role in cyber resilience.