Tech Takeaways

Any feedback? Let us know here! This week's show is the first of a two-part special with Sophos Technical Evangelist, Jon Hope. Jon shares with us his and Sophos's view of the modern threat landscape, customer challenges and how to deal with them. Jon provides insight into the evolving threats, how diminishing returns from ransomware have caused the threat to evolve and when we talk abou...

Any feedback? Let us know here! Wayne is missing this week - so Jason and Paul go rogue and let loose on the  IT claims they commonly hear, but are often not true.  The team picks through common misconceptions ranging from the classic "It's in the cloud, I don't have to worry about its security and availability anymore" to every IT pro's favourite line "You work in IT...

Any feedback? Let us know here! Data is a valuable asset to any business. It's the information we use to make decisions, the things we share with our customers, suppliers and partners to more effectively operate. The question is, are you protecting this valuable asset as well as you can? In this episode, Paul and Jason discuss the data loss risk and how to build an approach to avoid it. The t...

Any feedback? Let us know here! It had to happen that Tech Takeaways would wander into the murky waters of ITs current hot topic of Generative AI. A technology brought into the popular consciousness by ChatGPT. But what does this potentially game-changing technology actually mean for all of us and for those of us focused on business technology? With Wayne away for a few episodes, Jason and Paul ta...

Any feedback? Let us know here! The risk posed to businesses by poor password management is huge. A username and password that falls into the wrong hands can be used to gain access to all kinds of systems, from enterprise to personal. They can be used to steal data, money, deploy malware or carry out reconnaissance on a future target. How do we end up with poor password practice? Often because we...

Any feedback? Let us know here! All businesses have and need usernames and passwords. They are how we get access to systems and our business information. Today businesses and users are managing more usernames and passwords than ever before. This creates a massive problem for businesses and users alike and is why identity and credential theft is at the top of the cybercriminal's hit list. With...

Any feedback? Let us know here! Phishing remains one of the primary weapons that cyber attackers have available to them to try to compromise the security of an individual or a business. The threat is ever-evolving and has moved on greatly from Princes offering you millions if you just send over your bank details. Today the team discuss the evolving threat and how cybercriminals are using advanced...

Any feedback? Let us know here! IT is essential to the smooth running of all businesses. Therefore it is critical that it is always available and that individual issues don't leave us without crucial systems. To achieve that, businesses design and build resilient IT infrastructure capable of surviving incidents that otherwise would leave them without crucial business systems. Or at least that...

Any feedback? Let us know here! The recent MOVEit file transfer breach has caught a lot of attention in the news recently, with high-profile victims of the attack around the world. In the UK this includes BA, The BBC and Boots. It's yet another example of a breach that has a big impact on its victims and raises the question, how do we avoid being the next victim of a cyberattack? While there&...

Any feedback? Let us know here! In this episode, the team talks about cybersecurity again. When trying to tackle the ever-changing cybersecurity threat it's critical that businesses, regardless of their size, should ensure they have the basics of security right. But how do you go about doing that? For businesses in the UK, the Cyber Essentials accreditation is an excellent way of doing that....

Any feedback? Let us know here! Most businesses have adopted the cloud in some form or another. There are numerous reasons, whether it's for flexibility, scale, simplicity or cost. Whatever the reason, making a move to the cloud may not always be straightforward. But, you can stack your cloud migration odds in your favour, how? That's the topic of this week's episode as Jason, Wayne...

Any feedback? Let us know here! On this week's Tech Takeaways, we look at Cyber Resilience planning. In a world where businesses spend an increasing amount on cyber security tools to stop incidents, we are finding very few have developed specific plans to deal with the impact of one happening. Businesses have plans for handling catastrophic incidents that wipe out buildings and even towns and...

Any feedback? Let us know here! Much to Jason and Paul's surprise, apparently the answer is no! So the gang have a chat about why backing up data in Microsoft 365 is important.  They discuss the Microsoft shared responsibility matrix, and why you need to remember it is YOUR data in 365, not Microsoft's. The team also chat about the different approaches you can take and of course why rans...

Any feedback? Let us know here! We all have endpoint devices whether it's laptops, desktops, or mobile phones, but how many of us fully manage them? In this episode, Jason, Paul and Wayne discuss recent projects where customers have benefitted significantly from getting their endpoints under full management.  The team share how they have seen customers improve the efficiency and quality of de...

Any feedback? Let us know here! More and more businesses have embraced the move to Microsoft 365 and the wider public cloud. However, many of those businesses find they are spending more money on their cloud infrastructure than they need to. How do you know if you are spending too much in the cloud and how do you stop it? In this episode, Jason, Paul and Wayne discuss some recent projects they hav...

Any feedback? Let us know here! Meet your hosts for this new podcast that aims to bring you the real work of business technology in bite size chunks. In this Episode Jason Fitzgerald, Wayne Miller and Paul Stringfellow introduce themselves and what to expect from Tech Takeaways. To make sure you catch all new episodes, the subscribe on Youtube, iTunes, Spotify and all good homes of podcasts.

Any feedback? Let us know here! The cybersecurity threat is ever evolving and is present 24 hours a day. The impact of a cybersecurity breach can be catastrophic making it the number one technology challenge faced by all businesses. But how to we deal it?  In this episode we get the inside track on a recent project where the business took on the challenge by adopting a managed security service. Ja...