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Security Breach at GoDaddy Exposes Over 1 Million Users
Today, hosting Giant GoDaddy announced that it had been the victim of a severe cybersecurity breach which may well have exposed over 1 million user accounts to bad actors for a period of...
How Insurers Can Transform Their Business With Cloud Computing
Technology and the digital revolution has transformed almost every industry, and the insurance sector is no exception. Where brokers once used clunky and disjointed internal communication...
Benefits of Auditing Your IT Department
IT auditors often have to spend quite a lot of time persuading businesses that organizing an audit of their IT department is valuable and worthwhile. Organization-wide audits often include...
What Is Cyber Insurance, Why Do I Need It, and How Do I Get It?
What is cyber insurance? Cyber insurance works in much the same way as any other specific incident related insurance, like flood or earthquake insurance. It reduces the financial risk of...
Supply chains and cybersecurity
How to protect yourself if a vendor is hacked. Modern cybersecurity is no longer just about shoring up vulnerabilities and stopping breaches in your own organization and networks. These...
The insurance landscape is changing: how an MSP can help your brokerage reach IT success
First-rate IT is a necessity in almost every industry and sector. The world we live and work in is now digital, and cutting-edge IT infrastructure and management is the only way to...
Co-Managed IT – what does it look like for an internal team to work alongside an MSP?
Although the last couple of years has intensified the trend, the managed service model of IT provision has been growing in popularity for some time now. The pandemic certainly did its part...
Three Ways Insurance Companies Can Boost Their Cybersecurity
Insurance companies are one of the most vulnerable businesses to cybercrime around. As a sector, they operate under a unique set of circumstances that make them ideal targets and this risk has only grown with the increase in remote workforces brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Future of Insurance
How can an industry that creates a mandatory product be disrupted? This is a question that has plagued Canadian auto insurance providers for more than a decade. Auto insurance is a legally required product across Canada that is heavily regulated and extremely slow to change.
Are you too social online? How your personal data is at risk on social media
With everything from name and age to marital status and place of work, we put a lot of information out there. Everyone has a different comfort level about sharing data on social media platforms, but almost all of us share some of our lives and personal information with the world on one platform or another.
Cloud Computing in AgTech
At first glance it might be hard to envision how agriculture and cloud computing could overlap. Sure, there are plenty of applications for innovation and technology in the world of agriculture, but cloud computing just seems a little too abstracted from the messy world of crops, livestock, and farming.
How to Prepare Your Business for Hybrid Work
Hybrid workplaces have been the coming thing for a few years now, but the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was the catalyst that has brought them front and center. While dispersed...