People are the weakest link
This sounds like a nightmare too impossible to happen. US soldiers putting sensitive information online in non-secure third party websites. It defies belief, yet we’re reading that it happened. The story popped up on ‘Gizmodo’
It is alleged that US Soldiers were saving sensitive information on a couple of common flashcard sites, presumably of things they were trying to memorise and learn. Even worse, their settings were on ‘public’ not ‘private’
It’s a classic warning about the risk of people, however well intentioned, saving critical data online in places the organisation is unaware of, and can’t control. That’s why our new KARE for Security S2 plan helps identify use of these sites in your organisation.
US Soldiers Accidentally Leaked Nuclear Weapons Secrets: Report (gizmodo.com)
Shadow IT
Shadow IT is one of the largest threats to data privacy in organisations today.
It’s not necessarily because these sites are going to be hacked, although that’s always possible, but just because if you don’t know the tools are in use, then there is no way that you can manage them!
The first step to maintaining this data is to identify it! That’s why you need new tools that are cloud focused. If you’re still using the same old security tools that you used to use prior to the cloud, then you are not keeping up and we need to talk!
Microsoft 2017 Country Partner of the year!
[header2 text="THE SECRET TO OUR SUCCESS... IS OUR CLIENTS" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] On top of our recent Cloud Productivity award, Microsoft have just announced Kinetics as their overall New Zealand 2017 Partner of the Year. We love doing what we...
A simple but effective hack is back
[header2 text="We've seen this several times in the last few weeks" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] A classic phishing technique has been updated and is reaping rewards for hackers. Delivery is by email or web popup. You are asked to take a survey (often...
Security Alert – WannaCry
There is currently a worldwide security alert associated with the latest ransomware attack - 'WannaCry'. Media coverage has been heightened as the exploit itself was originally discovered by the NSA in the US. Further newsworthiness was added when the first notified...
Microsoft Cloud Productivity Winner!
[col size="6"] [header2 text="PRODUCTIVITY IS WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] We are delighted to be recognised as Microsoft's 2017 Cloud Productivity Partner of the Year. Winning this award is something that comes as no surprise to...
We are moving!
[header2 text="Over 20 years old and we are still growing" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] Over Easter weekend we are moving to 1B, 3 Melrose Street, Newmarket. [col size="6"] So on 18 April we will be up and running at our new office on the first floor of...
Microsoft Office competency testing
[header2 text=" How do you know your staff skill level with Microsoft Office? " align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] Measuring the productivity of chickens is easy … you just count the eggs. Measuring productivity of those using Microsoft Office is much...
Reduce email clutter…
[header2 text=" Reduce email clutter and improve communication with Microsoft Teams" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] Microsoft have introduced ‘Teams’ into Office365. It is a new application that’s included in most commercial Office365 plans. The concept...
Password expiry SOLVED
[header2 text="Ensure password expiry notifications get actioned" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] These days it seems everyone has multiple devices. Desktops, tablet’s, smart phones, iPad and Surfaces. With more choices of what we work on, we have more...
Kinetics are Triple Finalists in the 2017 Microsoft Partner Awards
[header2 text="Punching above our weight" align="left" color="#336A40" margintop=""] Kinetics Group is proud to be selected as a finalist in three categories for the Microsoft 2017 Partner Awards - 'Small & Midmarket Cloud Solutions', 'Cloud Productivity' and...
Jacobsen
"Kinetics brought a large pool of knowledge across a broad range of companies and markets that assisted us to reduce the time to market of solutions and infrastructure implementations." - Truby Gravatt, IT Manager IT Review Identifying gaps vs best...