The numbers are staggering. We always get a few clients saying "My organisation is too small, cyber-criminals won't attack us". We can state with absolute certainty that this is a fallacy. Cyber Criminals are targeting every sized organisation Remember that not...
Cyber-Crime is big business. The criminals are organised and sophisticated. Imagine if they put their ingenuity to things that are good? But alas, that's not reality. Instead we have to brace ourselves to deal with another wave of crime. Deathstalker is a such a...
Normally our case studies reflect work we’ve done with clients. This time we wanted to share how we’ve used our own services through lockdown to automate a key business process. One of the challenges we’ve always had is that it can be really hard to know how long a...
Parliament recently passed the new Privacy Act, which comes into effect on 1 December 2020. This introduces stricter measures around the storing, sharing and breach of personal information and gives the Privacy Commissioner more powers. Every organisation should have...
The old TRS-80 just turned 43 years old. It brings back memories of storing programmes on cassette tape. I still have copies of games I wrote and published on cassette many years ago. That got us thinking about whether their successor, floppy disks, were still in...
The best way that security can be managed when Working From Home (WFH) is to ensure the WFH devices are known to be patched, have AV, and are monitored. There is always going to be a risk if the device is not monitored as you won’t know what the patch/AV status is,...
What should you do when ‘Evil Corp’ comes to call? (Yes, that’s a real name.) By now, its well understood that hackers and cyber-criminals are busy and it’s only a matter of time before they hit you. They will keep trying and trying and whether they succeed, or...
Since Covid-19, there has been a surge in ransomware and cyber-attacks in New Zealand. For almost 25 years, Kinetics has specialised in providing comprehensive cyber security solutions and staff training to a broad cross section of the business community. Learn...
It’s hard to believe there was once a world with eMail. Working from Home meant we couldn’t talk to colleagues as easily as we used to. Some messaging moved to tools like Teams, and that cut email traffic, but others stayed in eMail and inboxes were flooded. Do you...
As a result of Covid-19, many organisations have become a lot leaner and the new normal means doing more with fewer resources. What if your organisation could quickly achieve the following: Save money on IT expenditure – while baking in a future proof IT strategy...