Office 365 – Threat or Opportunity for MSPs?
There is no denying it. Office 365 is well and truly the market leader for companies moving to the cloud. Over a fifth of all corporate employees use an Office 365 Cloud Service and over a half of all organisations moving to the cloud opt to use Office 365. Of the top 100 companies in […]
Who cares about ISO 27001?
ISO 27001 is incredibly important for any organisation that holds sensitive data. The main industries for this being the Education sector, government agencies, IT companies, Financial and Telecoms and many more. ISO 27001 is designed around security for data. Protecting information. It isn’t just an IT accreditation. This is why so many companies not in […]
Backup Best Practices – The Grandfather-Father-Son Backup Strategy
The Grandfather-Father-Son backup strategy, sometimes just referred to as the GFS backup strategy, is a data retention policy with the aim of making data backup management more manageable and less resource heavy. You can’t have millions of backup points stored on your backup repository forever. It just wouldn’t be feasible and would take up a […]
Backup Best Practices – The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
In this post I will be explaining what the 3-2-1 backup strategy is and why it should be used. However, before I go any further, please keep in mind that this is the minimum you should be aiming for in regards to backup. For improved security and better RPO & RTO, you should be exploring […]
Backup any directory and filetype
With Datahive you can backup any directory and filetype on a system! You may have heard earlier this week that another backup provider has now restricted the file types that you can backup with their services. Amongst other file types, you can no longer backup: Applications: /Users/<username>/Applications, /Applications/, /Program Files/, /Program Files (x86)/ VM image files: .hdd, […]
What is ISO 27001 and why is it so important?
Here at Vitanium we have recently become ISO 27001 certified, which is excellent news for us, but what does that actually mean for you and your customers? It is an internationally recognised standard ISO is the International Organisation for Standardisation. Yes, it looks like it should be IOS in that case, but as it is […]
£31million stolen in cyber heist
Hackers have made off with over £31million worth of Bitcoins from the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world in terms of trading volume. The Binance Exchange is a trading platform for crypto-currencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. With the Binance market hovering around the billion dollar mark, it was a prime target for hackers. Biding […]
La French Government’s Chat app has been piratée (That means hacked)
By “Chat app” we don’t mean an app to swipe through pictures of cats, but the French government’s actual chatting application, Tchap. The newly-launched app is designed for government officials to communicate securely, using internal servers to avoid wannabe spies (or actual spies from foreign agencies) having a look in on what they are saying. […]
What are RPO & RTO?
What does RPO mean? RPO means Recovery Point Objective. The Recovery Point is the last point in time that you can backup your data/systems from. The Objective is the amount of time and data you can realistically sacrifice. If you can cope with one day’s worth of time and data loss, you can stick to […]