While I blog about new technology and how it can help your business, I am also a parent who is wary of the security issues that technology can create. My previous blogs have been about web filtering and warnings about messaging apps used at school; this one concerns hacking. On a...

Great Western Railway (GWR) recently urged around one million of their customers to reset their passwords in the wake of 1,000 web-based accounts being hacked by a new method called ‘credential stuffing’. GWR reported that no financial data was accessible, as this is encrypted,...

Government funding cuts mean internet connectivity and IT services currently provided to English further education (FE) colleges on the Janet network will need to be paid for as of August next year. Announced last month, these cuts will cost colleges thousands of pounds every year...

It’s been more than six years now since the initial release of Office 365. When it was explained to me, the concept of a per user per month subscription for your favourite Office applications seemed like a big change. However, that change has been widely accepted and has helped...

With data breaches on the rise, cyber security has to be high on the agenda for any business that holds customer or employee data. The number of data breaches reported to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) rose 19% in the last three months of 2017, according to the...

I speak to schools every day as part of my role and there is one topic of our conversation I feel needs to be addressed...internet connectivity. Understandably, many schools purchase their internet services from county council suggested services. I say “understandably” in that...

The classroom is becoming an amazing blend of interaction, digital information and other modern learning models to engage with students and help educators be more effective. Digital transformation in schools creates new challenges for the infrastructure and overworked IT teams....

We have worked with secondary schools, colleges and their business and IT managers for 35 years. I understand just how much the education landscape has changed and the financial challenges you face. Secondary schools and colleges are keen on the idea of digital transformation to...

We design and deploy plenty of communications solutions for schools but we find independent schools more challenging as their needs are more complicated. Like all educational establishments, independent schools are looking to digital transformation to try to find cost savings and...

Hackers use any means necessary to cause havoc to businesses and users across the internet. The latest hack is called Satori which is silently scouring the internet and hijacking routers to use them to initiate DDoS attacks against specific websites.The Satori botnet, named after a...