by Andrew Hunt | Nov 12, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
In August we all heard about Team NZ falling prey to a $2.8 million invoice payment fraud. It was the now-familiar story of a fake or hacked email, asking for payment to go to a different bank account. We should all be familiar with these tales by now. I’m sure that...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 27, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Double Key Encryption (DKE) is coming soon to Microsoft 365 (E5 plans required) Like the name suggests, this is even MORE secure than the levels of encryption previously seen. Microsoft are saying that you need it if: You want to ensure that only you can ever decrypt...
by Andrew Hunt | Sep 10, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
When you read about the ransomware attacks, such as those on Honda, Garmin, Toll, Fisher and Paykel and Lion, it’s easy to think these attacks only target large enterprises. Unfortunately, that would be a mistaken view. The reality is that all businesses are under...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 31, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
It feels it’s like a daily occurrence for one of our clients to be asking for assistance with a security compliance questionnaire from their client. Most of these are being driven by corporates with international footprints. This becomes complex as each...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 27, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
The numbers are staggering. We always get a few clients saying “My organisation is too small, cyber-criminals won’t attack us”. We can state with absolute certainty that this is a fallacy. Cyber Criminals are targeting every sized organisation...
by Andrew Hunt | Aug 26, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, Security
Cyber-Crime is big business. The criminals are organised and sophisticated. Imagine if they put their ingenuity to things that are good? But alas, that’s not reality. Instead we have to brace ourselves to deal with another wave of crime. Deathstalker is a...
