Blog | CT Business Solutions Limited
CT Business Solutions Ltd are active in many fields, both in the local business community and the Information and Communications Technology world. We like to keep our customers up to date with relevant news and articles.
Routers equal Security plus Speed
More than just that flashing box, lighting up like a disco in the corner of the room, routers play a particularly vital role in keeping your business safe, and your data secure, ...Read More...
Never Use Your Browser's Password Manager
For a long time now many employees have been in the habit of saving their passwords in the web browser's password manager. Microsoft Edge is even introducing a new and improved ...Read More...
Microsoft Planner and how can it help your business?
Many businesses in New Zealand use Microsoft Planner. Planner is a tool within the Microsoft Office 365 suite. Planner is an easy way to organise teamwork with intuitive, ...Read More...
Empowering Your Business With Microsoft Teams
Meet Northland Kindergarten Association: The Northland Kindergarten Association or NKA, has 25 kindergartens between Kaitaia in the Far North, to Ruawai in the heart of ...Read More...
Avoid Document Disaster | Empowering your Business
The POWER Trifecta Solution for Document Automation The environment in which we operate has significantly changed. Businesses in New Zealand have been driven to embrace remote ...Read More...
Document Management | How to Save Time
Meet Quality Foods Southland Meet Quality Foods Southland or QFS for short. What started as a humble bakery and Café in the 1900s by Annie C Miller, grew into New Zealand’s ...Read More...
Top IT Tips for 2022
A New Year is a definitely a chance to kick things off the way you mean to go on. Here is an ITA blog with some top tech tips for 2022 – obviously, ask us at CT Business ...Read More...
Top Christmas Computer Tips
2021 may be the Christmas that we all collectively exhale and exclaim “Thank goodness this year is over”. However, before you rush out the office door for Christmas time, ...Read More...
Passwords made simple! What is MFA and 2FA?
Let’s be honest. Remembering passwords on top of the million other things to do in any given day is a lot. Are your team’s passwords fairly similar across multiple online ...Read More...
Cyber Insurance – Do you need it?
Cyber Security is a very real threat to businesses in New Zealand these days. Here we look at Cyber Insurance, what it is, what the laws are and why you need it. Why do you need ...Read More...
Microsoft Teams vs. Zoom
Microsoft Teams or Zoom? Which one is the best for you? Meeting anyone? Remember the good ole days here in the Waikato, when we all used to cram into a conference room, pass ...Read More...
Cyber Security – The Risks and what you can do.
Ransomware threats are on the rise globally, and Cyber Security is the buzzword now for anyone even here in New Zealand. Not only is there a very real threat present for ...Read More...
The new Windows 11 - Its coming this year!
It doesn't seem that long ago, that businesses here in New Zealand were told that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows ever. Well, Windows 11 has just been announced ...Read More...
Hacking in Your Own Back Yard
Having compromised IT is way more common than you might think. Often those that have been compromised have no idea they are. It is not just overseas companies that are targeted ...Read More...
The Data Protection Solution
The Data Protection Solution; How Microsoft DLP (Data Loss Protection) could help keep your data safe. If you are a health practitioner, accountant, lawyer. Marketer, or you deal ...Read More...
New Strains of Covid-19 - Business Risk Reduction and working from home.
With the discovery of more the new and more highly contagious strains of Covid-19 from both the UK and South Africa being detected each day by NZ’s MIQ, many experts feel that ...Read More...
Privacy Breach Reporting
The Resurgence of Privacy Breach Reporting. There has been an unprecedented amount of hacking and ransomware attacks both in the Waikato and New Zealand in 2020. As a result, in ...Read More...
The Cyber Security Threat Landscape
Now, more than ever, it is important to secure your data. Cybersecurity threats to your organisation, your staff and your clients are becoming a regular occurrence here in the ...Read More...
Transparency in Tech
Working remotely has brought many challenges as well as silver linings to the way we now do business. We reached out to some of our valued customers to find out what they found ...Read More...
Microsoft 365 – More than Just Email
23 Dec 2020A cheat sheet to help you make the most of your Microsoft 365 subscription. If you have Microsoft 365 for business, we want to make sure you are making the most of it. ...Read More...
How to Reduce Cybersecurity Risk
Cyber-attacks are swiftly accelerating globally and close to home here in the Waikato, with SME’s continuing to be a target. Investing a few minutes thinking about how to reduce ...Read More...
Keep Your Remote Workers Safe
As the coronavirus madness continues to spread globally, many organisations are instituting mandatory remote work policies. While many companies may find remote work new and ...Read More...
Save $$, Go Proactive
How proactive IT management can save you money and mitigate risk. Do you find yourself so caught up in other areas of your business that you tend to only manage your IT when ...Read More...
Why You Should Use Windows Ransomware Protection
Windows 10 already has ransomware protection built in to the Windows Defender application. Unfortunately in a standard Windows 10 Installation it is turned off by default. Given ...Read More...
Microsoft Teams: More than just video conferencing
There are plenty of options available for video conferencing at the moment, which has been extremely useful with many people working from home in the current environment. Skype, ...Read More...
Strengthen Your Password Policy
Small to medium size kiwi businesses are increasingly being targeted by unscrupulous hackers, and cyber-criminals which often leads to loss of confidential data, intellectual ...Read More...
Office 365 Compromised Email
03/05/2019; Lately we have been attending to a lot of clients who have had their Office 365 email compromised. The type of compromise where one of your good customers gets sent an ...Read More...
Contract Tracing Covid-19
Contract Tracing and what it means for Hamilton Business's. Preparing your business for contact. Covid-19 Level Three is here and Level Two is on its way. It's is time to ...Read More...
April 2019 Patch Tuesday
A slew of very important security updates were released today by Microsoft in their April 2019 Patch Tuesday update (Wednesday here in New Zealand). Two of the serious flaws that ...Read More...
The Covid-19 Technology Transformation
Covid-19 Technology - The big question on everyone’s mind is where to next? With the movement to Alert Level 3 on April 28th, what does this look like for your business ...Read More...
Stolen Logins - Is Someone Spying on You?
02 Feb 2019; Lately we have had a lot of calls regarding high levels of malicious emails. This is especially dangerous to businesses poorly trained in Basic Cyber-Security. Why ...Read More...
The Trouble With Office 365
These days small and mid-sized businesses are increasingly moving their critical data to the cloud via Microsoft Office 365. While Microsoft focuses on keeping data available, ...Read More...
Disgruntled Security Researcher discloses Zero-Day vulnerability.
28 Aug 2018; A security researcher known as “SandboxEscaper”, apparently frustrated at trying to communicate a Zero Day exploit to Microsoft’s “Report a Computer Security ...Read More...
Office 365 vs. Microsoft 365 - Confused?
Please explain Today’s business environment continues to move to the cloud and the associated cloud applications which entail a monthly subscription fee. Included in this trend ...Read More...
Microsoft Edge bug allows attackers to read emails and Facebook feed
22/06/2018; An independent researcher accidentally discovered a bug in Microsoft Edge that allows a hacker to read his victim's emails and facebook feed. Firefox can also be ...Read More...
VPNfilter Botnet Attacks Common Routers
25/05/2018; At least half a million common routers and storage devices in dozens of countries around the world have been infected by a sophisticated botnet, in preparation for an ...Read More...
Twitter password leak on world password day
03/05/2018 Twitter is urging all 336 million users to change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text. The company says they have since fixed the issue and there is ...Read More...
Cyber Security Update
28/05/2018; According to the Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN), and their latest Cyber Security Update, a snapshot for the period ending 31 March 2018, shows ...Read More...
City of Atlanta - Offline due to Ransomware Attack
23/03/2018; FBI investigating computer outages in the city's network possibly tied to Samsam-type ransomware variant. The City of Atlanta’s computer network has fallen victim ...Read More...
The Current State of Ransomware
Attacks are up. Payments are down. Attacks - The Bad News Reports from MalwareBytes tracked a 90% increase in the number of detected ransomware attacks. The SophosLabs 2018 ...Read More...
Half of your employees are probably wasting 3 hours a day
In a Salary.com survey of over 2,500 employees, nearly ½ of the group admitted to wasting 1-3 hours every day on the web surfing non-related activities. With all of the pressures ...Read More...
Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerability
07/02/2018; Whilst malicious activity with this vulnerability has yet to be seen, independent research this week by AV-TEST shows that there are now 139 malware samples that can ...Read More...
Free Antivirus for your Android Smartphone
Sophos Mobile Security for Android Overview Our free Mobile Security app provides full functionality to protect your Android device without reducing performance or battery ...Read More...
Microsoft Accreditation
CT Business Solutions is now a Microsoft partner Silver, Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions. We're pretty happy about that as it clearly shows our ability to migrate you to the ...Read More...