Cloud environments continue to gain in popularity as companies recognize the inherent advantages. Cloud solutions have quickly become the darlings of technology today and combine innovative tech with organizational needs seamlessly. Unfortunately, compliance issues arise for organizations when not meeting required technical and legal standards, potentially incurring heavy fines and increased scrutiny from regulators; businesses must navigate a complex compliance landscape that includes HIPAA and PCI DSS mandates among others.

Cloud Compliance

Cloud Compliance involves adhering to data protection, privacy, and security laws and standards. Compliance in cloud environments presents additional sec...

Have you noticed how quickly your technology setup has expanded over time without you realising? One day you had just a laptop, licenses and some software; now there are numerous tools and devices you did not sign up for!

Recent findings of the SaaS Management Index demonstrated that small businesses employing less than 500 people use an average of 172 cloud apps - many without even an IT department!

There are countless moving parts, and it can be easy for all these pieces to work against each other without an organized plan in place. People improvise, systems don't communicate effectively and money is wasted on activities that won't help grow the business. An IT roadmap may provide useful gui...

Imagine working on your computer when suddenly an alert from Windows Update pops up. Instead of dismissing it outright, however, you take action by installing what seems to be an official update - only to discover later that installing it infected your device with ransomware!

Herein lies the horror of cyber threats.

Cybercriminals are constantly devising new means of infiltrating systems. Cybercriminals encrypt data and leave victims no choice but to pay a ransom fee in order to decrypt it. Once ransomware has infected your system, there's nothing you can do other than pay or hire someone to remove malware (or install backup copies if possible).

"Big Head" ransomware is one of the latest ransom...