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The Importance of Backing Up Your Microsoft 365 Data
In today's digital age, businesses rely heavily on cloud-based solutions like Microsoft 365 for their day-to-day operations. While Microsoft 365 provides a robust suite of productivity tools and data storage capabilities, many organizations overlook a critical aspect...
Is Your Company Ready For A Cyber Attack?
In this article, we will explore key considerations and steps to determine if your company is truly ready to face a cyber-attack head-on.
The Benefits of Co-Managed IT Services for Your Business
Co-managed IT services offer a valuable solution, combining the strengths of an internal IT team with the specialized knowledge and support of an external IT partner such as Silicon. In this article, we explore the benefits of co-managed IT services for your business.
Raising the Bar for Reliability:
When a system goes down, getting that system back up and running quickly is the goal of every managed service provider (MSP). All too often however, a backup will fail, causing the MSP to lose confidence in the backup and recovery process. Lack of consistency in...
Stay cyber-safe while working remotely
The past week has seen a huge increase in the number of business employees working from home. Unfortunately this presents opportunities for hostile actors to exploit more relaxed security measures associated with remote working. There are a number of things all...
Minimizing Business Downtime with a Complete Restore Toolkit:
When disaster strikes and operations go down, businesses panic. That anxiety is warranted. According to Datto’s 2019 State of the Channel Ransomware Report, 85% of managed service providers (MSPs) reported ransomware attacks against small-and-medium-sized businesses...
Understanding Privileged Identity Theft
In today's security landscape, almost all major security breaches come compromised privileged credentials. There are an increasingly large number of well resourced external actors, some with the backing of nation states going to a great deal of effort to obtain user...
A Message From Liam O’keeffe: Silicons CEO
As the COVID-19 pandemic increases it's impact on all of our lives, Silicon is now working in full remote mode. For our customers this means the same levels of support - but delivered slightly differently. All of our staff are now working remotely. Our commitment to...
What Businesses Need To Know About RansomCloud
Ransomware continues to grow as the method of choice for cybercriminals to extort funds from their victims. Cybercriminals who carry out these attacks are incentivised to continually look for new ways to stay ahead of the curve to capitalise on vulnerable computer...
Notifiable Data Breaches
Data breaches are occurring at an alarming rate and can be disastrously damaging for both an organisation and its customers. Have a read here - Notifiable Data Breaches: https://silicon.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Notifiable-Data-Breaches.pdf
The Silicon Guide: Social Engineering Attacks & How to Avoid Them!
Over the holiday break we have seen an increase in the number of social engineering attacks (also known as phishing, spear-phishing, whaling or scareware) across both our client base, and the wider business community. These attacks differ from typical virus or malware...
Datto’s 2019 Global Ransomware Report
With 2019 well and truly behind us now's the perfect time to analyze the year that was to help guide us moving forward into a prosperous 2020. Some scary facts and figures but well worth a look! Check out the Datto Global Ransomware Report here:...