Your business actually needs an expert hand!

Probably you are not looking for a change right now and you are happy with the way things are with your IT. But can you keep up with your competitors and stay ahead without making adjustments in your infrastructure? With an increasing influx of disruptive technologies, businesses are emerging and accelerating the adoption and deployment of futuristic IT solutions. The ongoing digitalization, adoption of Cloud, secure networking practices, and seamless running of global businesses require a holistic review of the current networking setups and constant changes to keep the business running up-to-speed, have the capability to scale up and compete in their industry.

All these multi-faceted tasks can put a lot of pressure on your in-house IT department. Getting a specialized managed service provider can streamline the overall growth process and increase business efficiencies to scale up. Listed below are some key benefits that come when you partner with managed services provider:

Streamline your business operations with managed service providers

• Business-first Perspective:

From end-user services to data centre services and everything in between, managed service providers take care of all the challenging issues in today’s tech-driven operations so that businesses are free to focus on innovation, product development, and their growth strategies. In short, they allow you to completely focus on your growing your business while the smooth running of your operations is taken card by MSPs.

• Security Outlook:

Businesses are aware of the growing IT security breaches and are keener than ever, especially after recent cyber attacks like  WannaCry and NotPetya, to protect their data and systems from any unforeseen intrusions. When a business enterprise becomes a victim of cybersecurity breaches like malware, ransomware, and virus attacks, immediate help is required not just to restore daily operations but to also recover lost data and improve the vulnerability. With a proactive approach, years of experience and group of expert hands, managed service providers are abreast with the ever-changing and challenging security landscape and work more like a cybersecurity service provider for you.

• Operational Efficiency:

Your IT staff can now focus on strategic initiatives and technological planning while offloading the operational aspects to managed service providers. This is especially true if you are a growing business with a small IT team. You can leverage the expertise and benefits of extending your IT team by seeking out seasoned Managed Services Provider.

• Infrastructure Optimisation:

Infrastructure can be optimized only if a business has a thorough assessment of everything that’s already in place. This creates the requirement of regular security assessment, complete business assessment like audit of the existing IT infrastructure, and network assessment, which is a complex process, but extremely valuable. An expert hand of managed service provider can make it possible for you without wasting your time.

Bottom Line – Focus On Growth With The Help Of ICTechnology

With a complete range of advanced IT support, proactive monitoring, and managed services in Sydney, we ensure you peace of mind while working towards safeguarding your operations.

Our IT management and computer network maintenance solutions deliver everything your business needs to function smoothly, scale up efficiently and keep the cybercriminals away, keeping it protected at all times.

Our Trustworthy Managed Services allows you:

• Enjoy peace of mind – trusting your technology with our expert team of IT professionals.
• Seize more opportunities – with user-friendly technology that works
• Increase billable hours – consistent IT support yields more uptime
• Take the guesswork out of budgeting – with the convenience of our IT flat-rate plan

So are you ready to streamline your business operation and plan your next business growth? Contact us to speak with our ICT consultants to plan your managed service requirement or to know how managed service can help in your business growth.

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In our last couple of blogs, we’ve discussed how to protect your network, Cloud, and your organization’s ICT system. But we missed out Mobile security completely. We need to seriously consider security of the most important digital device—mobile phone that remains with us 24/7 and holds most of our sensitive information. In recent years, cybercriminals have been increasingly looking for ways to attack our phone devices. After all, we never part away with our smartphones; they are our primary means of storing personal and professional docs, photos, emails, bank, wallets, security pins, contacts, and even more than what we can think. Don’t you think we should consider a strong mobile security solution to protect our valuable data? In this article, we’ll discuss about possible mobile threats, where to find them and how to do Mobile Protection with Kaspersky Internet Security for Android.

According to Kaspersky Lab, they caught 42.7 million pieces of malware on smartphones and tablets in 2017. Mobile threats can come in all sizes and shapes; you need to be aware of all possible attack methods so that you can take timely actions and protect your data from any kind of information or data loss.

Let’s walk through couple of dangerous mobile beasts that are much more likely to leave you out of pocket or phoneless.

1. Bank and Card Details: Our smartphones and tablets know everything (almost) about us — from our contact details to bankcard numbers and current location. This information is a goldmine for cybercriminals. As a result, the Web is full of all kinds of pests out to grab anything lying around (or carelessly typed).
2. Spywares: As the name implies, spyware are programs to spy on people like hidden cyptominers. Below is some target areas where they affect most:

• Stealing your e-mails and text messages (both SMS and IM) and forwarding them to cybercriminals.
• Recording phone conversations,
• Sending your device’s GPS coordinates to scammers,
• Revealing your browser history and clipboard contents,
• Stealing personal or work documents, or any files from your phone,
• Turning on the microphone and/or camera and sending out secretly recorded photos, audio, and video,
• Stealing social media and online bank account details,
• Collecting system information.

3. Banking Trojans: Banking Trojans steal data linked to bank cards and apps. As they provide direct route into people’s account, these are highly popular among hackers. Banking Trojans come in a variety of flavors, and in many cases they combine an array of functions. For example, The Trojan Faketoken, uses windows imitating apps to steal card data, including the CVV code, and expiry date. All this looks entirely legitimate. The program then intercepts the SMS duly sent by the bank and forwarded it to the cybercriminals, whereupon it can perform transactions in the name of the device owner.
4. Mobile Ransomware: Malicious developers create mobile ransomware Trojans to block victims’ devices and demand money to restore access. According to a 2017 report by Kaspesky Labs, 83% of detected ransomware came from the Congur family of Trojans, which locked victims’ devices with a PIN. And to restore back of your device, you have to pay the heavy ransom amount to criminals.
5. Mobile Wipers: As the name implies, mobile wipers wipe out all the files and information from victim’s device. For ordinary scammers trying to make money by collecting ransom, wiping user data makes no business sense. Instead, wipers are commonly used in corporate or political knife fights.
6. Mobile Miners: If your smartphone suddenly starts to heat up, slow down, and drain battery quickly, the most likely culprit is a hidden cryptocurrency miner — these pests secretly mine cryptocurrency for someone else at your expense.

How to stay protected from these unknown mobile threats?

To protect yourself from all such mobile beasts, it’s worth following some simple security rules.

• Install apps only from official stores, such as Google Play or the Apple App Store: It’s not a guarantee, but it considerably lowers your risk of permitting cyberthreats onto your device.
• Block the installation of software from all third-party sources in the device settings. This eliminates the randomly downloaded threats that attempt to mimic system updates and the like.
• Don’t forget to install system and application updates — they patch vulnerabilities that criminals can e
• Think hard before clicking on dubious links in e-mail or text messages.
• Pay attention to the permissions requested by apps during installation. Don’t just blindly agree to permissions and T&C before reading them.
• Protect all mobile devices with a reliable antivirus utility. For example, the award winning tried and tested security programs like Kaspersky Internet Security for Android performs real-time analysis of apps, links, and Web pages, and blocks anything that looks suspicious or dangerous.

Implement security that is truly yours with ICTechnology

At ICTechnology, we deliver a perfectly balanced combination of agile, continuous security and superior efficiency, protecting your data against the most advanced current and future threats without compromising your mobile performance. Kaspersky Internet Security for Android would be a perfect fit.

Contact us now to implement Kaspersky Internet Security for Android for you or your business.

To secure your organization from cybercriminals, you must be able to protect your data. And to protect your data at all times, you should know when it’s under potential or actual attack, and by what. Right from APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), ransom ware, data theft and financial fraud, cyber threats can enter to your data in all shapes and sizes and cause critical damage to your network. So your IT security system must be able to spot, block and remediate all potential threats before they actually reach your data and start harming your network and operations. Your IT security system must do it without compromising the performance and most importantly without generating ‘false positives’, causing disruption and wasting resources with false alarms.

But before going in further details about Cloud Security protection, let’s discuss about current security of Data over Cloud.

How Secure is Your Data in Clouds?

The answer to this question is not as straightforward as it seems. People may think that their data is safe once they have it on the Cloud, especially private setups. However, it’s not completely true. For total protection and to prevent outside threats that may reach you while data is travelling over web, you need advanced security programs launched for Cloud protection. Similarly public Clouds that are commonly used by large organizations require greater attention on how data is stored and shared across the network, minimizing any leak.

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However, data leakage is just one aspect of security, it may be exposed to ransom ware while travelling to one place to another (when a communication takes place). Hosted cloud service providers are responsible for the security of the environment they provide, but responsibility for the internal security of each workload, wherever it sits still remains with you. This is where you need an advanced security program for complete protection and you can get it done through an expert managed service provider like ICTechnology.

For advanced Cloud security, you can get Kaspersky Cloud Security for your organization.

Kaspersky Cloud Security for Your Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Protection

Kaspersky Cloud Security is a solution engineered to deliver next generation cyber security for enterprise grade hybrid cloud environments. Kaspersky believes that cyber security is there to maintain business sustainability, protecting corporate evolution and digital transformation. Security must partner with infrastructure, rather than building barriers.

Right security at right time: Kaspersky Cloud security provides outstanding multi-layered protection to multi-cloud environments. It will detect that you are connected to an insecure network and offer to turn on a VPN and encrypt the data you transmit so that no one on the local network can see or steal it.

The other popular features you can get with Kaspersky Cloud Security

1. For secure network: Accelerate visibility across cloud environments for superior edge-to-edge protection.
2. One Product, Any Cloud: Proven security for physical and virtual servers, VDI, storage, AWS, Azure and even data channels.
3. Seamless security experience: A seamless enterprise-level automated security provisioning, for secure and uncompromised cloud migration.
4. Protection for you & your business: Kaspersky Security Cloud protects you on every device you have — PC, Mac, phone or Android.

Implement security that is truly yours with ICTechnology

At ICTechnology, we deliver a solution that is agile, continuously secure and has superior efficiency, protecting your data against the most advanced current and future threats without compromising on system performance and Kaspersky Cloud security is a perfect fit to match this requirement. Contact us now to implement Kaspersky Cloud security for your business/organization.

Ask for a FREE security assessment of your existing network and identify what is missing in your technology environment. To do a security assessment or get started with our free and no-risk security assessment, please fill out this form to send your query and we will get in touch with you very soon.

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Office 365 users may think they are well protected against any kind of cyber threat. But it is not completely secure and can attract a cyber attack, which can be disastrous for their business. Give it a complete protection with Kaspersky Security.

DID YOU KNOW THAT 3.5 MILLION EMAILS ARE SENT EVERY SECOND?  IT ONLY TAKES FEW SECONDS TO BRING DOWN YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS.

We all know that MS Office 365 offers a rich set of Email features to enhance communication and collaboration among coworkers over the digital space. However, emails can also carry the most sophisticated malware and phishing vector and are the biggest culprit to open doors to malware attacks. And when your business relies so much on an outside service, you need to augment the service’s default protection. In case of cloud-based Microsoft Office 365, we recommend Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365.

What is Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365?

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 is a software solution designed for the protection of mailboxes managed over Cloud like Microsoft Office 365. Email messages are scanned for viruses, Trojan software, and other types of threats that may be transmitted via email, as well as spam and phishing.

Why Should You Use Kaspersky Security for Office365?

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 uses advanced heuristics, sandboxing, machine learning and other nextgeneration technologies to protect email from ransomware, malicious attachments, spam, phishing, business e-mail compromise (BEC) and unknown threats.

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 provides the following features:

• Anti-Virus protection
• Anti-Phishing protection
• Anti-Spam protection
• Attachment filtering

Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 can perform the following operations:

• Scan incoming and outgoing mail from malware.
• Filter unsolicited mail (spam) from user mailboxes.
• Scan email messages for phishing and malicious links.
• Filter attachments in email messages.
• Move messages to Backup to prevent the risk of data loss.
• Notify the system administrator about messages that contain malicious objects and/or filtered attachments.
• Display statistics of application activity.

You do not need to install Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 on your computer. You only need a browser and Internet access to connect to the Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 Management Console.

Like all Kaspersky Lab solutions, Kaspersky Security for Office 365 is built on the worlds most awarded Cloud security solution. The solution is easy to manage from a single and intuitive console. To implement this solution and avail the most of the cloud’s resource efficiencies, you don’t need to install different packages, no new training and new hardware.

Protect your Business from All Cyber Threats with ICTechnology

ICTechnology provides strategic solutions for your Cloud networking environment to ensure smooth working of all operations, communication and coordination of your organization.

We help you streamline your business processes and simplify all searching—with complete email indexing so that you can access your critical records safely without worrying about further email spam protection.

You can ask for a security assessment with us to identify what is missing in your technology environment. To do a security assessment or get started with our free and no-risk security assessment, please fill out this form to send your query and we will get in touch with you very soon.

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In our last couple of blogs, we have discussed a number of exciting features, new add-ons and great flexibility to empower teamwork among employees. As MS Office 365 lets you work on shared documents over Cloud, security in your shared working environment becomes a strong focus.

Our modern-day work styles are attracting a large amount of cyber threats – from individual threats to sophisticated organizational breaches and massive cyber-attacks. With the growing complexity in the current work environment, cybercriminals have expended to a level where no single service can adequately protect an organization. To overcome the issue, organizations need complete security—Right from employee identities, enterprise applications to data, devices, and infrastructure. According to a popular forecast—Cyberattacks will likely cost $6 trillion worldwide by 2021. Microsoft Office 365 threat protection helps mitigate advanced threats by providing an end-to-end holistic solution to secure an organization from all of the potential threat factors, available on Cloud.

End to end security focus

Combined with a rich set of security features, MS Office Threat Protection stack provides more effective and efficient ways to enable detection and response to the cyber-attacks. Let’s understand how MS Office focuses on end-to-end security:

• Protection: Set up and configure Office 365’s security services against advanced threats before they impact your organization. Office 365 offers a rich, robust, comprehensive, and multi-layered solution to address cyber-attacks.
• Detection: In case a breach occurs, customers have visibility to all malicious emails that are targeted to the organization. They can even know when and where the breach has occurred, and which data is lost.
• Response: Remediate from an attack and return the organization to a ‘No-Threat’ state. Since Microsoft IT began leveraging Office 365 Threat Intelligence, cases throughout have increased 37 percent per month and the average time to resolve incidents have reduced by 80 percent.
• Remediate: You can also learn how to react or respond to different types of threats.

MS Office 365 Products That Can Mitigate Cyber Attacks

Get powerful protection against cyber threats with a range of popular MS Office 365 add-on features:

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• Microsoft Exchange Online Protection: It provides advanced security and reliability to protect your information while exchanging the online data.
• Get trusted, enterprise-grade threat protection: Did you know that in every 39 seconds cyber-attack or online threatening activities take place somewhere in the world? To protect yourself from being a victim of a hacker attack, you need trustworthy and tested protection for your organization’s digital environment. MS Office 365 threat-protection technologies help protect and provides visibility against spam, malware, viruses, phishing attempts, malicious links and other threats.
• Protect against spam and malware in emails: Get enterprise-class reliability and protect against spam, malware and many other known or unknown threats. whilst maintaining access to your email during or after emergencies.

• Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: It can help protect your mailboxes, files, online storage, and applications against new & sophisticated attacks in real time.
• Help defend against advanced email threats: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) helps protect against sophisticated threats hidden in email attachments and it provides cutting-edge defenses against dangerous cyber activities. Rich reporting lets you investigate why ATP flagged a threat, and it gives you details about the users who received malicious emails and malicious links.

• Office 365 Cloud App Security: It gives insight into suspicious activity in Office 365 so you can investigate situations that are potentially problematic and, if needed, take action to address security issues.
• Enhance your visibility and control: Identify high-risk and abnormal usage, security incidents and evolving threats within your Office 365 environment and set up detailed anomaly-detection policies and controls with Office 365 Cloud App Security. Gain enhanced visibility into your Office 365 usage and uncover Shadow IT of cloud apps in your organization.

Drive Digital Transformation in Your Organisation with ICTechnology

With more than 100 million commercial monthly active users of Office 365, and more than 500 million Windows 10 devices in use, Microsoft is in a unique position to help companies empower their employees, unlocking business growth and innovation by setting up certain security standards.

So, are you ready to protect your information with MS Office 365? With a seamless experience across your workplace and infrastructure, MS office provides the new standard to get the work done and achieve more.

To implement MS Office 365 for your organizations and to enjoy these great features, contact us at ICTechnology, a leading managed service provider in Australia. All you need to do is fill this form and we will contact you. You can also call us directly at 1300-123-428.

We will assess the current environment and provide backup and disaster recovery solutions, network infrastructure, Cloud migration, MS Office 365 implementation, network and workstation security, and complete hardware solutions.

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NOTE: This is advice only and may not fit your organization. Please contact us for a customized approach to your business.

Since the beta version of MS Office 365, announced in October 2010, MS office has introduced a holistic workplace solution that empowers everyone to work together in a secure way. Currently, Microsoft office has grown by more than 100 percent and there are more than 135 million monthly commercial office 365 users enjoying its rich functionality.

IT directors, administrators, and CIOs managing enterprise set-ups, spanning multiple cities or countries need efficient and secure networks. It is true that larger organizations have more complex IT requirements compared to the small-to-medium businesses (SMB). However, this doesn’t mean that SMBs don’t need those set-ups. In most small companies or even 250 people, they may have one IT person in place of IT managed services to manage all network related issues around the office. You can imagine how efficient that would be especially keeping up with the changing technology or watching out for cyber-attacks.

2019 will be a year of Technology especially Cloud Services. This is the time to check and analyze your forthcoming business plans and set your New Year objectives. We are already running in the last semester of 2018. Businesses and top management IT executives are considering this on priority. In this article, we are introducing the list of top Cloud Computing trends that will be everywhere in 2019 and how they can help you accomplish your New Year goals and business growth plans.

MS Office 365 offers a centralized place to create, collaborate, communicate and get the work done. Since its beta version, announced in October 2010 and its first availability on 28 June 2011 to the current date, MS office 365 has brought the concept of “bring together” for existing online services into “an always-up-to-date cloud service” incorporating Exchange Server (for e-mail), SharePoint (for internal social networking, collaboration, and a public web site), and Lync (for communication, VoIP, and conferencing). Let’s dig deeper into how MS office 365 makes your job easier and help you achieve more in less time.

From Uber to Australian Defence and Aussie government banks, 2017 witnessed some biggest security lapses in the last decade. Read these highlights: (Source – As published in CRN News)

1. Uber disclosed in November that hackers had stolen information from up to 57 million rider and driver accounts last year in a massive data breach. The company paid the thieves US$100,000 in October 2016 to delete the data and keep quiet about the breach, according to a Bloomberg News report.
2. The personal details of 48,270 Australian government, banking and utility employees were exposed online by a third-party contractor.
3. An attack on a subcontractor to Australian Defence resulted in the loss of 30 GB of “commercially sensitive” documents. The highly sensitive documents included projects for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program and the P-8 Poseidon “submarine killer” plane and detailed designs of Australian Navy ships.