As a business owner, it’s important to raise your company’s morale to be more productive. But you can’t just keep throwing office parties everyday of the year. Thanks to advancements in VoIP technologies, you can offer a better way to keep your employee’s spirits high by allowing them to work from home. This allows your employees to take a breather …
The basics of App Virtualisation
App virtualisation is a term that gets thrown around by professionals quite often. Vendors say it’s a necessity for small business owners. But for a service that claims to make your life easier, it’s ironic that small business owners are left even more confused with what app virtualisation actually is. So what exactly is it? How does it help your …
The marketing tool you’ve forgotten
From free information products such as ebooks to brochures and email campaigns, today’s marketers have a wealth of tools and tactics at their disposal. While content marketing and social media garner most of the attention in the marketing world, it’s easy to forget about tried and true techniques that are as effective today as they were twenty years ago. Recent …
Choosing the right mouse for work
Have you been stuck using the same mouse for several years now? If you’re feeling a bit of pain in your mouse clicking hand, then it’s probably time to consider an upgrade. We don’t always pay attention to it, but a good mouse can make a big difference. The perfect mouse will let you work efficiently, be easy to wield, …
Laptop vs Desktop for small businesses
Running a small business takes an intelligent, resourceful person. From day one you must make important decisions in all areas of business, from the marketing strategy chosen for a product to the brand of printer you will use to print out flyers. One of the biggest decisions you will make in the early stages of a business involves your SMB’s …
Recognising a Social Engineering Attack
Cyber criminals no longer necessarily hack your accounts or infect your systems to steal your information. These days, they often trick you into making a mistake. This kind of attack is called social engineering, and your common sense is your most powerful defence against it. With this article you will be better equiped for recognising a social engineering attack. Let’s …
8 ways technology impacted your life in 2016
There was no shortage of good and bad news from the world of technology last year. Here’s 8 ways technology impacted your life in 2016. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was banned by airlines The ban was enforced amid fears the phones would explode mid-flight. The phone was well received by critics when it was first released. Not even a week …
How to Enable Employees to Work Remotely
The ability for employees to work remotely has triggered significant workplace change. Some jobs are more suited to it than others – recruiters, engineers and writers, for example, are just some of the people finding it easy to work remotely. However, in some cases, entire business functions, such as call centres, are run with people working remotely, sometimes on the …
5 Tips on How to Implement an Effective Cyber-Security Strategy for Finance
A Cyber-Security strategy is something that should be on the minds of every company’s executives. The threats to security are becoming increasingly complex, and the ability to stay one step ahead of those threats is more challenging than ever before. Multi IT & Telephony Solutions will now give you 5 tips on how ti implement an effective Cyber-Security strategy for …
Whale Phishing and how to protect yourself from it
Whale phishing is a phishing scam attack that targets the ‘big fish’ in an organisation; the senior executives and other people with access to highly valuable or sensitive information. The scam lures them to share valuable information or transfer funds into an account managed by the cybercriminal. Cybercriminals use spymail to gather important information about their ‘big fish’ before they …
Cyber Security Self Assessment
With cyber threats making international news continually, we’ve all grown a bit weary and a bit tired of the topic but it doesn’t mean that the threat is going away, if anything it is getting worse. A Cyber Security Self Assessment may be the answer you are looking for to get a holistic idea of the current state of your …
Choosing a cloud provider
Many businesses are now looking towards “cloud computing” to provide them with the IT systems and services that they would have previously had in their office. Cloud computing encompasses many different technologies and services with a huge variety of “as a service” providers. This presents a considerable number of challenges for businesses over security, reliability, backup, performance and costs as …