The best monitors for your team

It’s important to ensure your users have the best kit – this can make them more productive, and increase morale.

What 4K monitors are best for your business? Alogic offers a range of cutting-edge 4K monitors under its Clarity series, designed to meet the needs of various users. In this article, they explore the best 4K monitor from their Clarity collection and why they should be on your list to get the year off to a flyer!

But first, why Alogic?

Alogic monitors are designed with the latest technology and highest standards, ensuring they outperform other products in the market. Our commitment to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction sets our monitors apart. Here are a few reasons why to consider Alogic:

  • Superior build quality: Alogic monitors are built to last, using premium materials and rigorous manufacturing processes.
  • Cutting-edge technology: We incorporate the latest advancements in display technology to deliver unparalleled performance.
  • Customer-centric design: Our monitors are designed with the user in mind, offering ergonomic features and intuitive controls.
  • Comprehensive support: Alogic provides excellent customer support and warranty services, ensuring peace of mind with every purchase.

As Alogic Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the the technology and how it can 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.

10 essential steps for transitioning from VPN to Zero Trust Access

In today’s evolving digital landscape, remote work has become the norm, and cyber threats are growing more sophisticated.

Traditional VPN solutions are struggling to keep pace with these changes, prompting IT leaders to consider adopting a more robust and adaptive security model: Zero Trust Access (ZTA).

➡️ If you’re an IT leader looking to replace your VPN with a ZTA solution, follow these 10 essential steps to ensure a smooth transition.

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.

Keeping your business running this Christmas

Everything you need to keep your business running this Christmas (minus the stuffing!)

It’s Christmas – the time for fun, family and sometimes failures! We’ve all seen it, something will break at the worst time and you’ll need it in a hurry before the holidays kick in.

Would every supplier be there for you right until we all finish for Christmas? We are! We’re right here to chat for all our customers’ requirements no matter how big or small.

Additionally, if you have any projects or requirements coming up next year for all areas of your IT infrastructure, we can help.

Here’s a quick overview of what we offer.

Servers

Whether HP or Dell or if you need the servers themselves or spares for them, we can provide cost effective quotations.

Networking

If you have any projects coming up for HP ProCurve/Netgear/Juniper equipment, we can cover all of their portfolios.

Laptops

Regardless of if you are HP, Dell, Lenovo or Toshiba house, we supply all brand new models and spares for them such as replacement batteries, chargers, screens etc.

Refurbished Laptops

If you are looking for laptops but are struggling with supply or cost effective solutions to keep within your budget, look no farther, we supply all brands, Dell/HP/Lenovo/Toshiba refurbs, call or email for a quote.

Tablets

Whether you are looking for Apple/Lenovo/Dell or Microsoft, we offer cost effective options and solutions

Audio Visual

We supply all brands and requirements from Audio Visual and telephony equipment to smart boards, commercial screens and web conferencing.

Software and Anti-Virus

If you are looking for brand new licensing or renewals, we supply all solutions and options.

Power Supply

If you have a requirement for disaster recovery solutions, we can offer all brands of UPS and power supply from APC/Eaton/PowerWalker/Vertiv/HP.

Cost effective solutions

We all have current suppliers, however, if you give myself and Complete IT Systems a chance to show you what we can do, we will prove to be competitively priced, quick on turn around and a reliable source for all your IT needs.

Products we supply:

  • HP (Servers, PCs, laptops, workstations, networking, print and storage, media and spares)
  • Lenovo (Thinkpads, Thinkcentres, Thinkvision & Thinkservers, spares)
  • Dell (Servers, PC’s, laptops, workstations, networking, storage and spares)
  • Cisco (their whole portfolio)
  • APC (UPS’ and network management cards)
  • Juniper (switches, routers, firewalls and options)
  • IBM (servers and storage)
  • AV Solutions (for Triumph Board, SpinetiX, Repeat Signage, Unicol & Scala)
  • Microsoft (Microsoft Gold Partner)
  • Apple (iMACs,iPhones, Macbooks, iPads and Macbook Minis)
  • Security solutions (Barracuda, Kaspersky, Eset, Sophos, McAfee)
  • Office peripherals (all brand of toner and ink, cabling, office sundries and back up media)
  • Make do and mend (replacement laptops batteries, screens, memory, hard drives)
  • Telecoms (sim-free mobiles, office desk phones)
  • Refurbished hardware for cost savings (servers, switches, desktops, laptops, mobiles, all brands with 6-12 month RTB warranties)

And much more – give us a call to discuss your requirements!

The power of security analytics


As cyber threats grow more complex, and increase in number, being able to proactively detect anomalies and pinpoint vulnerabilities to mitigate targeted attacks, insider threats, and advanced persistent threats is crucial. 

By collecting, analysing, and leveraging data from security events, security analytics empowers teams to proactively detect anomalies and pinpoint vulnerabilities to mitigate targeted attacks, insider threats, and advanced persistent threats (APTs).

Security analytics platforms enable security teams to stay ahead of the game.

So what are the main advantages it gives?

  • Predictive analytics: You can parse through historical data to identify attack patterns or potential risks and even proactively forecast cyber attacks.
  • Refined behavioral analysis: Establish a comprehensive understanding of routine activities, then monitor and correlate various data points (e.g., user behavior, host activity, network traffic) to identify anomalies that indicate malicious activity.
  • Automated incident response: Streamline alert triage, report generation, and decision-making for the next best actions, without missing a beat.
  • AI-driven security analytics improves your security team’s ability to respond to incidents much faster and maintain a more robust defense posture.

>> Read more in this recent article from our partners Elastic that discovers essential tools for building successful security analytics.

Find out more

As Elastic Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the leading search, observability and SIEM security 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.

Is your business ready for GenAI?

GenAI has been the buzz for a while, but there’s also a fatigue kicking in as development teams struggle to get past pilot phase due to security or performance concerns.

But as large language models (LLMs) continue to change the threat landscape, many security professionals continue to be concerned with the expansion of the attack surface. What are the ways that this technology can be abused? Is there anything we can do to close the gaps?

>> This new report from Elastic Security Labs explores the top 10 most common LLM-based attacks techniques, and uncovers how LLMs can be abused and how those attacks can be mitigated.

As Elastic Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the leading search, observability and SIEM security 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.

How to keep your organisation safe in and out of the office

Whether you work from home or work in an office, the security of your organisation must be one of your top priorities.

While these two locations can feel quite different, you can use the same precautions no matter whether you’re working from the office or at home.

As part of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month content this October, this handy 3-step guide from our partners KnowBe4 looks at some important cybersecurity rules and how they can be used both in the office and when you are working at home.

Want to find out more?

As KnowBe4 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.

 

2024 Cybersecurity Assessment Report

Evolution and technology go hand in hand, but in the world of cybersecurity it’s difficult to keep pace with new obstacles that are constantly presented to security teams.

That’s why this annual Cybersecurity Assessment Report from Bitdefender makes for insightful reading. It provides critical insights into how organisations are navigating these challenges.

Key findings include:

  • Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) Impact on Threat Landscape: Over 90% of respondents express significant concern about the role of AI in evolving cyber threats.
  • Workforce Pressure: Over half of the respondents plan to seek new job opportunities within the next 12 months.
  • Rising Data Breaches: More than 57% of organisations experienced a data breach or leak in the past year, a 6% increase from the previous year.
  • Cloud Security Challenges: Identity and Access Management (IAM) and maintaining compliance are top concerns in cloud environments.
  • Lack of Regular Audits: Only 45% of organisations conduct regular audits and assessments of their cloud infrastructure

This report is essential for understanding the current state of cybersecurity and preparing for future challenges. Whether you’re an IT manager, a CISO, or a cybersecurity professional, Bitdefender’s findings will help you develop robust strategies to safeguard your organisation.

Want to find out more?

As Bitdefender 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.

Ransomware hostage rescue manual! What you need to prepare and recover from an attack

Ransomware is one of the most damaging types of cyber attacks of all time, and the one feared the most by business owners and cybersecurity defenders.

This worry is not without reason. In an instant, an organisation’s critical IT infrastructure can be brought down for weeks to months, completely stopping all business. Some data and systems may be lost forever. Complete recovery may take over a year. Intellectual property and confidential data may be stolen, publicly posted, or used adversely in future attacks. Customer impacts may last long past the technical recovery process.

What if the worse happens?

Free your files! Get the most informative and complete hostage rescue manual on ransomware.

This manual from our partners KnowBe4 is packed with actionable info that you need to prevent infections, and what to do when you are hit with ransomware. It also contains a Ransomware Attack Response Checklist and Ransomware Prevention Checklist.

You will learn more about:

  • What is ransomware?
  • Am I infected?
  • I’m infected, now what?
  • Protecting yourself in the future
  • Resources

 

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.

 

Avoiding vendor lock-in in your virtualised environment

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is being viewed as disruptive to the IT strategy of many organisations.

If this applies to your organisation, this insightful video from Tintri gives some much-needed perspective on how to shift the IT disruption to IT construction.

With over 15 years experience as a universal virtualisation platform, Tintri is purpose-built to accommodate change and avoid vendor lock-in.

Want to find out more?

As a Tintri 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.

Cybersecurity myths and misconceptions

We have now reached a point where cybersecurity is considered an essential aspect of almost all organisations, regardless of their size.

It’s rare to find any organisation that does not follow some form of cybersecurity procedure and practice in its business model. However, there still exists a significant amount of misinformation and misunderstanding regarding cybersecurity.

To address this issue, Pistachio have compiled a list of five common myths and misconceptions that need to be clarified.

Want to find out more?

As Pistachio Partners, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on the services 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.