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Video Resources

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Resources to help your business succeed.

Check out below a range of video resources.

 

Ranging from cyber security, looking into ransomware and the variety of password managers that are available, to everything technology; brand new equipment and how to recycle your old ones!

 

If your IT is causing you challenges, or you would like to get more value from your technology, please get in touch with the team today to see how we can help.

Check out below a range of video resources.

Cyber Security

3 Tips to choose an Antivirus

Choosing a Password Manager

Have I Been Pwned?

What is Ransomware?

Working From Home Part 1

What is Two Factor Authentication? Part 1

Tips on how to use two Factor Authentication

How to Protect against credential stuffing part 1

How to Protect against credential stuffing part 2

Technology

London Media Lounge Podcast #4 with VaraTech | Video in the IT Space, Cyber Security & New tech

Recycling your old computers

Dell Optiplex 3090 unboxing & setup

3 IT Strategy Mistakes Small Business Make

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Technology Insights

As we explored in the previous article, technology has not only consumed our lives at home but that reliance h...

September 24, 2021

In the modern world technology holds the limelight. It has become integral to every aspect of our lives, from ...

September 24, 2021

In the previous article, we established that technology is the driving force for businesses all over the globe...

September 2, 2021

Technology has rapidly evolved to become the main driver in our lives, both in a work setting and in our free ...

September 2, 2021

Human Resources, otherwise known as ‘People Operations’, ‘Team culture professionals’ or, for ease, ...

July 29, 2021

Cyber Security Roundup for May 2021 A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, R...

May 4, 2021

Learn The Utmost Importance Of IT Infrastructure And Cyber Security In today’s day and age, every company, b...

May 4, 2021

Screen time at ‘breaking point’ but can tech help? It is no secret that technology has become incr...

April 26, 2021

Record £4.5bn quarter for UK tech investment The UK tech sector saw record investment in the first quarter of...

April 26, 2021

Facebook: Our staff can carry on working from home after Covid Facebook says its employees can continue workin...

April 20, 2021

Microsoft should just admit defeat and give Windows 10 product keys away for free Windows 10 for free – you ...

April 20, 2021

Keeping your devices and software up-to-date is essential regardless of whether you have gained the Cyber Esse...

April 19, 2021

As we explained previously, to achieve the Cyber Essentials Accreditation there are the 5 controls that must b...

April 19, 2021

Cyber security is of the utmost importance in every organisation, no matter its size. It can be difficult to g...

April 19, 2021

Facebook says its employees can continue working from home, even as other tech giants appear to be going off t...

April 15, 2021

Microsoft Teams will soon allow admins to control how much bandwidth it gobbles up Microsoft is working on a n...

April 7, 2021

There are reports galore about major cloud services being compromised. Still, few users ever look into the roo...

April 7, 2021

As we have explored previously in the blog series, cyber security should be a major concern to you and everyon...

March 30, 2021

As we explored in the last blog in the series, cyber security should be one of your organisation’s main conc...

March 30, 2021

Cyber security should be at the top of your list of concerns, both in your business and when at home. In the m...

March 30, 2021

The impact of 5G and COVID-19 on the security landscape Cybersecurity in a 5G, post-COVID future The threat fr...

March 29, 2021

Why do some law firms have an easier transition to the cloud than others? If you were to talk to enough firms,...

March 29, 2021

Aiming to address a world of work in which Covid-19 brought a decade’s worth of progress in a year’s time,...

March 9, 2021

The four-step roadmap to “freedom day” on June 21 has now been laid out by the UK government. Despite a cl...

March 9, 2021

One-fifth of remote workers in the UK recycle their work email or password to log into consumer websites and a...

March 3, 2021

New Microsoft Teams desktop app is a whole other version of the service There will soon be a whole new version...

March 3, 2021

At the heart of every business – along with many other things – is collaboration. By collaborating through...

February 24, 2021

How do you manage the tasks and work assignments among your team? Keeping on top of the ongoing administrative...

February 24, 2021

Sometimes just producing a top-quality product isn’t enough to attract the maximum number and quality of bus...

February 24, 2021

New technology has been introduced in England to help clinicians identify, for the first time, a new group of ...

February 23, 2021

Workers report feeling happier when working from home, though there seems to be a disconnect between staff sen...

February 23, 2021

By now, almost all organizations are, at least partially, reliant on cloud services. The speed and scale of re...

February 15, 2021

Remote working introduces fresh technology challenges for businesses looking to make it a part of their long-t...

February 15, 2021

After a year where everything seemed to drastically change, one old adage will hold true: Rome wasn’t bu...

February 9, 2021

Microsoft Teams Microsoft has reminded users of Skype for Business Online that the clock is ticking in the rac...

February 9, 2021

Corporate leaders are increasingly elevating the importance of cybersecurity to their companies. But recent hi...

February 1, 2021

The transition into permanent remote working is inescapable now. Countless articles, morning talk shows and wi...

February 1, 2021

Problem: Organising meetings can prove to be problematic Microsoft Teams, released in 2017, has rapidly become...

January 27, 2021

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office) is the tool of choice for achieving productivity in the workplace for millions...

January 27, 2021

Time is an essential commodity to businesses worldwide – wasting it can have derogatory effects on productio...

January 27, 2021

Three quarters of UK office workers said that they would accept – or have accepted – a pay cut in return f...

January 25, 2021

Presenteeism has long been associated with working life in the city, viewed by many employers and employees as...

January 25, 2021

What should businesses consider when embarking on their migration journey? This year has seen an unprecedented...

January 18, 2021

Enterprise spending on cloud computing infrastructure was up by 33% between July and September, from the same ...

January 18, 2021

In recent years, flexible working has become synonymous with modern business management and a distinctive trad...

January 4, 2021

A majority of UK businesses are failing to adequately train their remote working employees to spot security th...

January 4, 2021

Questions remain about how persistent remote working will be post-pandemic. A fifth of the workforce in advanc...

December 16, 2020

One of the unexpected silver linings to the global coronavirus crisis has been the rapid growth the cloud indu...

December 16, 2020

The world has seemed a better place lately, with improved optimism around an effective Covid vaccine. As one e...

December 7, 2020

China is now home to the most well-connected commercial 5G networks in the world, and businesses anticipating ...

December 7, 2020

As we have explored previously, Covid-19 has made a transition to remote working more urgent than business own...

December 1, 2020

As mentioned previously, the effect COVID-19 has had on the nation has been devastating for both individuals a...

December 1, 2020

Covid-19 has caused endless amounts of disruption to our daily lives, both personally and on a business level....

December 1, 2020

Over the past year, the pandemic has dramatically changed the way we live and work. Organizations around the w...

November 23, 2020

The pandemic has changed so much about our lives, including how we work. COVID-19 forced companies to switch t...

November 23, 2020

A hotel software provider has exposed the personal data of millions of guests around the world after misconfig...

November 16, 2020

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is partnering with Microsoft to support its Cyber Accelerator pr...

November 9, 2020

The events of 2020 have turned most predictions for 2021 on their head. Top trends such as artificial intellig...

November 9, 2020

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is ‘stepping up support’ for the National Hea...

November 9, 2020

The number of publicly reported data breaches fell in the third quarter of 2020, but billions more records wer...

November 2, 2020

A new way to work and learn for a new digital age When the pandemic first instigated a global shift to rem...

November 2, 2020

Around 65,000 cyber-attacks are attempted on UK SMEs daily, with about 4,500 of them carried out successfully,...

November 2, 2020

VOIP has many positives over traditional systems, especially in cost, but there are a few things to keep in mi...

October 28, 2020

The future of Telephony is changing, BT is preparing to retire its ISDN services by 2025. But waiting until 20...

October 28, 2020

Offices are empty, staff are at home, the country and its businesses are on a knife-edge. Businesses have been...

October 28, 2020

It recently tested a datacentre at the bottom of the sea – now Microsoft is heading into space to offer sate...

October 23, 2020

Speaking in the opening keynote of the Infosecurity Online event, mathematician and broadcaster Dr Hannah Fry...

October 23, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of abating, can teams remain productive? The last few months have be...

October 23, 2020

When Leonardo DiCaprio played famed conman Frank Abagnale, it awakened many to the glamour of the con. In the ...

October 16, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated the move to digital transformation, forcing IT and cybersecurity teams to evalu...

October 16, 2020

The fine against British Airways for GDPR failings has been reduced to £20m from the original £183m inten...

October 16, 2020

Unreliable home broadband connectivity is the primary technical challenge businesses are having to deal with a...

October 12, 2020

This week, I attended Microsoft Ignite, and one of the sessions that caught my attention involved Microsoft ...

October 12, 2020

More than one in five (21%) UK workers feel more vulnerable to cybercrime since the start of the COVID-19 pand...

October 12, 2020

New research has found that the majority of company employees who experience an IT issue while working remot...

October 12, 2020

Around one in three (31%) people in the UK are not actively concerned about cybersecurity, according to a stud...

October 5, 2020

The world’s second-biggest fashion retailer was today handed a monumental fine for violating the Europea...

October 5, 2020

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) received over 521,582 malicious emails over the past three mont...

October 5, 2020

The task management platform marketplace is a crowded one! With literally hundreds of platforms claiming to ta...

October 3, 2020

What is Power BI Power BI (Business intelligence) is a data analytics platform developed by Microsoft designed...

October 2, 2020

If you’ve never heard of Microsoft Lists you’re probably not alone. For year ‘Lists’ has existed solel...

October 1, 2020

Security researchers at Wizcase recently discovered an unprotected backend server associated with the Microsof...

September 24, 2020

Most UK and US workers now view cybersecurity professionals in a positive light, although worryingly few are c...

September 24, 2020

Most UK firms are set to increase digital adoption after admitting that the cloud saved their business from co...

September 24, 2020

Over half (56%) of UK businesses plan to increase their digital skills training budgets for staff next year, s...

September 17, 2020

IT leaders have suffered significantly higher numbers of data breaches as a result of outbound email in the la...

September 17, 2020

Academia has faced fresh warnings of cyber-attacks after a rise was recorded in August when students returned...

September 17, 2020

Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman today announced £500,000 in fresh government funding to help medi...

September 14, 2020

Global gaming hardware manufacturing company Razer leaked the personal information of around 100,000 customers...

September 14, 2020

Security researchers have discovered hundreds of vulnerabilities across major hotel and airline and travel boo...

September 14, 2020

New research from Kaspersky has discovered that of the 32% of Brits provided with a corporate desktop computer...

September 14, 2020

A third (33%) of companies in the digital supply chain expose unsafe network services to the internet, putting...

September 4, 2020

Microsoft is working on a new meeting feature called Spotlight that lets the meeting presenter control the vie...

September 4, 2020

Lloyds Bank customers are being targeted by a sophisticated email and SMS messaging phishing campaign, accordi...

September 4, 2020

Northumbria University is still reeling from a cyber-attack which forced it to reschedule exams and close its...

September 4, 2020

Nearly half (47%) of UK IT leaders have not updated their security strategies to account for their move to clo...

September 1, 2020

A COVID-19 domain is blacklisted every 15 minutes, while 35 COVID-19 spam emails are analyzed per minute.  Th...

September 1, 2020

Google Android users were pestered last week by a series of fake notifications popping up on their devices. Ac...

September 1, 2020

Popular stock photo site Freepik has disclosed a major data breach affecting over eight million customers. The...

September 1, 2020

Almost two-fifths (39%) of British business decision makers have sacked employees because they breached corpor...

August 21, 2020

A social media data broker has exposed the public-facing profiles of 235 million users via a misconfigured onl...

August 21, 2020

More than 50% of UK businesses are opting to use outsourced partners for cybersecurity services. According to ...

August 21, 2020

Nearly a quarter (23%) of UK office workers rely on unauthorized devices to work from home, a new study by Cy...

August 21, 2020

Power Apps “If only there was an app for that” We live in an increasingly automated world, but despite the...

August 3, 2020

Communication Internal communication is a never-ending challenge for many businesses across all sectors.  The...

July 31, 2020

Microsoft 365 has revolutionised the way many of us interact with the familiar, long-serving ‘Office Apps’...

July 27, 2020