5 security predictions for 2024

Over the past 12 months, threat actors have deployed generative AI to take threats to new levels, scaling up their attacks and making them more effective.

So as 2024 gets underway, it makes sense to look ahead to the changes, developments, and trends the coming year will bring to the security landscape.

To help you prepare for 2024, here’s some insight from Barracuda executives, each with their own perspective and predictions about what the year has in store for cybersecurity and what businesses need to be aware of to stay protected.

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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.

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Intelligent storage management that drives efficiencies – and more!

As we’ve been exploring in recent weeks, running virtual environments can be admin, resource and budget-heavy for IT teams. 

Whether you’re looking to reduce IT admin costs, lower storage TCO, or modernise data management, Tintri’s SQL Integrated Storage is an innovative Intelligent Infrastructure solution that delivers unparalleled visibility, automation and control for virtual and physical Microsoft SQL Server databases.

The result? A new era for SQL Server customers, enabling simplified, intelligent storage management that drives efficiencies, empowers DBAs and provides a consistent end-user experience. This short video (1 minute), gives you the lowdown.

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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.

 

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 in 2024 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!

Ransomware in the age of AI

Ransomware may seem like old news, but AI has thrown up new threats. How are you defending against ransomware in the age of AI?

This insight from Barracuda into the current ransomware threat landscape is a good starting point. It includes what you can do to safeguard your data from bad actors putting AI to use for new and more damaging attacks.

This eBook gives you:

  • The ways generative AI is being used for good and bad when it comes to cybersecurity
  • Strategies to protect your email, network, applications, and data from AI-powered ransomware
  • How to leverage AI to help prevent and remediate breaches
  • And much, much more to protect your business from evolving attacks

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.

Microsoft Copilot 101 webinar

If you’re unsure of how to leverage AI for your organisation, you’re not alone. But with Microsoft 365 Copilot, you can start taking advantage of AI in the tools you already use.

This webinar with AvePoint gives you the chance to learn how to work more effectively and efficiently with Copilot. Experts will guide you through:

  • What Copilot is
  • How it works
  • Best practices for using it
  • Live demos of common tasks like scheduling meetings, writing emails, or even finding information

▶ Register now.

Want to find out more?

As an AvePoint 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.

Solve print challenges from anywhere

If your organisation’s employees operate in an “anywhere” kind of environment out in the field, no print requirements are off limits.

Whatever the device and whatever the environment, Brother has a print solution to enable on-the-spot printing of self-adhesive labels, tags, wristbands and receipts in sizes as small as 2” right up to A4.

From their versatile range of multifunction printers, scanners and label printers, to their business solutions that help personalise your technology to suit your business needs, Brother have the solution for every challenge!

▶ Read the solution brief.

Find out more

Get in touch to find out how Brother solutions can help you improve your business’s resilience.

 

The pain points of managing a virtual environment

Lacking resources, staff and inefficiency?

If so, perhaps some of the following sound familiar?

Tintri VMstore can help alleviate some of these issues, as demonstrated by the following success stories:

DevOps agility

A leading provider of digital healthcare solutions struggled to manage multiple storage platforms and protocols creating slow application deployment and testing times. With Tintri VMstore, they were able to spin up hundreds of VMs quickly, test and tear them down with ease, enabling them to reduce deployment times, while also freeing up IT resources for other critical tasks.

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Perfect for virtualised workloads

An NHS trust in the UK suffered major latency and bottleneck issues with their existing SAN unable to support their virtualised infrastructure. With Tintri VMstore, they were able to quickly pinpoint storage-related issues and resolve them, with zero downtime since installation.

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Optimise IT department

An academic institution faced challenges with limited numbers of skilled IT staff and managing a growing infrastructure, helpdesk, and software applications . Tintri VMstore’s “set it and forget it” value proposition reduced the need for specialised storage expertise, thereby freeing up their IT staff for more strategic projects.

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Measureable impact on bottom line

A UK based B2B provider of unified communications (internet, IT, telephone, mobile, hosting and cloud services) struggled with systems maintenance and administrative backlogs across its disparate servers. The company resolved this by consolidating multiple hosts into a single VMstore platform, reducing administration time by up to 20%. Additionally, it achieved significant power cost savings since it was able to turn off excess servers.

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Ransomware recovery

A customer was hit with a ransomware attack and needed to recover their VMs quickly. With Tintri VMstore’s advanced snapshot and cloning features, they were able to quickly identify the infected VMs and recover the clean ones in minutes, reducing the impact of the attack.

👉 Read more.

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.

How scanners improved a logistics company’s cashflow

In recent weeks we’ve been showcasing how print and scanning technology can help drive transformation, modernise ways of working, and ensuring your devices are properly secured.

But what does this look like in practice? For Kenley Warehousing and Distribution, drivers were visiting the office once a week to scan in PODs, which meant a delay in invoices, payments and tracking of goods.

The solution:

Brother’s mobile scanners can be kept in the drivers cab, meaning once delivery has happened the POD can be instantly scanned in and sent to the office.

The results:

  • Almost instant invoices emailed to the customers
  • Instant proof of delivery
  • Improved cash flow

▶ Download the full case study.

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Quishing 101: Everything you need to know about QR code email attacks

You may have seen our recent webinar about Quishing and the threat it represents. If you missed it, or want to know even more, this article lays it all out!

Quick Response (QR) codes are two-dimensional barcode that allow users to share website URLs and contact information or make payments. While QR codes have made our daily lives easier, they have also opened new avenues for cybercriminals to exploit. Also known as quishing, QR code phishing attacks are on the rise and present a significant threat to users and organisations alike.

▶ Get the Quishing 101 from Barracuda.

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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.

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The magic of VDI

How many IT professionals get to pull a rabbit out of a hat by suddenly making your company’s top VDI issues vanish!

This video from Tintri helps you get ready to astound your team when you learn how to:

  • Wave your magic wand and pinpoint where latency is coming from, making your bottlenecks disappear.
  • Saw your environment’s complexity in half to deliver a consistent user experience.
  • Make quarters appear from behind the ears of your finance team, as they marvel at the cost savings.

The “magic” of running VDI on a Tintri VMstore is per workload isolation and the use of AI/ML to automatically tune each workload. Once you master that trick, you’ll be free to practice other ways to wow your colleagues. Let the VDI show begin!

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.