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When disaster strikes, what’s your plan? 600 400 Timewade

When disaster strikes, what’s your plan?

Your business may be performing well and running smoothly and then disaster strikes. Disasters can happen to any business at any time, whether it was caused by a natural disaster such as flooding, a cybercrime and ransomware, or even through human error…

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Email Security – Protecting your Business from Email Threats 600 400 Timewade

Email Security – Protecting your Business from Email Threats

Businesses cannot function without email and despite security precautions, emails still pose a threat for your business and these threats continue to evolve and are becoming smarter. When it comes to who is targeted, everybody in your business is at risk…

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Making Tax Digital – Don’t leave it too late 600 400 Timewade

Making Tax Digital – Don’t leave it too late

Making Tax Digital is regarded as one of the largest changes to the administration of the tax system in the UK in recent years.  However, with only 7 months to go until the introduction of Making Tax Digital for VAT…

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Why your Business Needs a Firewall 600 400 Timewade

Why your Business Needs a Firewall

A common misconception for small businesses is that they do not need a hardware firewall to protect their business from cyber criminals, believing that as a small business they not at risk, but cyber criminals do not discriminate on size.…

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Why make the switch to Microsoft Azure? 600 400 Timewade

Why make the switch to Microsoft Azure?

Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform was launched in February 2010 and features a growing collection of cloud services to help organisations meet their business challenges, including virtual machines, databases, file storage, backups and services for mobile and web applications. Whether…

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What makes a strong password? 600 400 Timewade

What makes a strong password?

Passwords can be maliciously obtained through various methods, from manual guessing, insecurely stored passwords, social engineering; when you may be tricked into revealing your password and also brute force; a piece of software automatically trying every possible combination of letters…

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Where are you with Making Tax Digital? 600 400 Timewade

Where are you with Making Tax Digital?

Back in 2015, the government set out its vision for a transformed tax system and published a Making Tax Digital roadmap to make fundamental changes to the Tax system by 2020 –  to become more efficient, simpler and easier for…

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Protect your Business from Ransomware 600 400 Timewade

Protect your Business from Ransomware

Following its emergence from Russia and Eastern Europe back in 2009; Ransomware, a malicious form of software, has become a significant threat to businesses and has caused high infection rates and disruption globally. Ransomware will take the victims data, encrypt…

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Is Cyber Security a priority for your business? 600 400 Timewade

Is Cyber Security a priority for your business?

According to the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018, 4 in 10 businesses experienced a cyber security breach or attack in the last 12 months and this rose to 7 in 10 among larger businesses. With GDPR now in force and…

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