by Andrew Hunt | Jan 11, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
We keep making the point that nothing can guarantee you won’t be hacked. But you can, and must, mitigate your cyber-risk. We think tools like Multi-Factor Authentication is crucial for protecting your IT systems – and MFA should be on EVERYTHING you use – your email...
by Andrew Hunt | Jan 8, 2021 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
It’s a new year and who knows what it will bring? COVID vaccines or not, 2021 is bound to have surprises. One prediction we can make with absolute confidence is that we need to be more careful than ever about protecting our data from ever-increasing computer...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 20, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
In the last week, we’ve seen two major successful attacks on critical US IT management and Cyber security tools. The first we learned about was on FireEye which is one of the leading and most trusted cyber security tools, used by much of the Fortune 500. ...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 4, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates
There is no doubt about it, 2020 will be a year to remember. COVID : Lockdowns, work from home, toilet paper shortages, return to level 3, hand cleaners, level 2, mask envy, normality (kind of), lockdown again, election(s), housing market and more. Perhaps the only...
by Andrew Hunt | Dec 2, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Denial of Service (aka what went wrong at the NZX?) In September the NZ Stock Exchange was the victim of an attempted extortion via a DDOS attack. The attack took them offline serval times over a number of days. Many business are now asking, what is DDOS and could...
