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Nearly half of Australian companies suffered a cyber attack within the past 12 months - an increase of 33% over the previous year.

The pandemic undoubtedly ushered in a new era of work. Gone are the days when everyone worked in the office. Now, most of us work remotely or in hybrid work patterns, splitting our time between the workplace and home.

Tech has been fantastic for businesses in many ways, allowing them to enhance productivity and reach new customers. However, the increasing reliance on tech also has its downsides - namely, the risk of downtime is a huge threat to businesses.

It used to be the case that companies only needed to worry about securing their office's four walls. Back in those days, employees worked on computers that were bound to their desks. The only way for a cybercriminal to launch an attack was to somehow get into the company network.

At Netcare, we are always looking for new ways to help our clients be more successful and productive

SaaS has given many significant benefits over the years... and challenges as well. SaaS security and management has become critically important that if left unchecked, can cause productivity loss, recovery, and legal costs to name a few to our clients.

It’s not unusual for a manager to exclaim that they wish they could clone one of their best employees so they could get more done. While you can’t exactly clone them, what you can do is make them more productive.

Up until this point, Australian companies had to get a domain that used two “dots” - .com.au, .net.au, etc. Well, this is about to change, and companies will now be able to register for shorter domains ending in .au instead.

Companies have gone through a lot of digital transformations recently. Many of these were accelerated and/or fueled by the global pandemic.

Microsoft Teams is a robust communication tool that enables multiple forms of team communication, along with channeled file sharing, webinars, and much more.

Windows 11 is now rolling out to users around the world, being made available for free to anyone that has a compatible Windows 10 PC.

No matter what else is going on in the cybersecurity world, it seems that phishing is always the number one topic. This is because it’s still the main conduit used to spread a wide variety of different attacks.

In today’s security climate threats have only become more sophisticated. They use machine learning and artificial intelligence to seek out areas of vulnerabilities in networks and devices and spread rapidly.

One of the main reasons that people use on-premises software hosted on their own server is because they feel it’s more secure to have complete control. Their data is onsite, accessible online, or offline.

The Internet is getting faster allowing businesses to implement cost-effective cloud hosted applications, rich media solutions and VoIP.
But it's also the case that the Internet is getting more dangerous. Hardly a day goes by now without the news media reporting another serious cyber security breach.

Businesses are transforming quickly in the 21st century. In just two decades, the “norm” for company operations has gone from mostly on-premises processes to complete cloud environments.

The average employee in Australia has to juggle 66 different passwords. This makes it nearly impossible for them to make all those passwords strong and unique while still remembering them.

Windows 10 is going to be retired in just a few short years, in October of 2025. So, businesses need to pay attention now and plan for an OS upgrade in the coming months to stay current.

Increasing productivity is a common goal for many businesses. Accomplishing that goal has become even more of a challenge now that teams are spread out between home and office.

In this article, we have summarised a guide developed by ACSC to help small businesses protect themselves from the most common cyber security incidents.

In 2021, the number of global remote workers is expected to double. While the pandemic may have accelerated the pace of telecommuting, it was a trajectory that was already picking up steam.

Are you still using a manual sign-in sheet for visitors? This type of manual process is incredibly time-consuming and not easy to search.

The way we work has changed a lot in even just the last decade. There are more remote workers than ever before, and companies are largely running their most vital processes in the cloud for anywhere access.

As business processes have moved to the cloud, the look of company network security has changed. Company data and sensitive files are now often located in cloud storage accounts rather than on a server or computer hard drive.