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Cybersecurity is never far from the top of the agenda for IT teams, and social engineering presents a growing and evolving risk. 98% of all cyberattacks now use some form of social engineering, with phishing attacks regularly deployed in an effort to manipulate unsuspecting users.

It’s a couple of years since we covered the emergence of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and it’s easy to see why they’ve since emerged as a popular alternative to traditional three-tier infrastructure models. HCI offers businesses a flexible, scalable way to collapse all three tiers of their existing infrastructure – compute, storage and network – into a single converged appliance, unlocking a number of commercial and operational benefits in the process.

New attack vectors and sophisticated delivery have placed organisations of every size at increased risk of cyber-attack, and smaller businesses remain prime targets for exploit. 82% of ransomware attacks target businesses with under 1,000 employees, but these organisations often lack the skills and resources needed to deploy protections that secure them against emerging threats. Additionally, many security solutions are geared towards larger organisations seeing that cost and complexity become blockers to implementation for smaller business.

March 14th marked the five-year anniversary of the general availability of Microsoft Teams.

Traditional cybersecurity protections have always orbited around the perimeter, and the basic concept is simple one. All of your valuable data and applications are made available on your network, surrounded by a perimeter firewall to secure them against potential cybersecurity threats. Once inside, users are trusted and can move through your network freely. Should you ever need to protect against new threats, you reinforce the protections deployed at the perimeter.

Productivity has a big hand in your business success, so ensuring your users can work at their best is crucial. The devices you place in their hands could make or break the output you can expect from your team. Different workstyles, age of device, and apps to be used will all play a part in how your users experience their technology and how empowered they can be.

Security is always top of mind for IT teams, but the shift from office-based to remote working has made it even more of a pressing concern.

Even when businesses deploy best of breed security solutions, there’s a burden on individual users to mitigate cyber security risks. This is especially significant considering that human error is the number one cause of cyber security breaches, with 88% of data breach incidents being caused by human mistakes.

After being the foundation of phone networks in the UK for almost four decades, services to ISDN phone lines will soon be shutting down in place of a fully digital network.

There’s no doubt that cyber security threats are on the rise, but there’s been a particularly noticeable increase in a specific type of threat that exploits zero-day vulnerabilities.

If your business is an existing Office 365 or Microsoft 365 licence holder there’s a more than fair chance that your services are currently delivered via the Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider program, or Microsoft CSP for short.