WordPress, contact forms, & the smoking gun
Website contact forms lead owners into dangerous territory for a variety of reasons, not least of which is that it is the first port of call for "bots" or even a plain old mischievous pair of hands to infiltrate. The problem with contact forms is that there is no...
Onboarding, and the case for supported services
"There is an awkward inverse in the relationship between technology, cost, and risk. While ever more sophisticated services come to market at ever lower costs, the inherent risks associated with these software solutions increase while user awareness remains behind the...
Public Cloud & Data Protection
The accelerating trend of organisations to move data, including customers' personal data to public cloud environments or other off premises services, raises an important question about who is responsible for the protection of a customer's personal data. The principle...
Domain names and zone records explained
Increasingly, small business users need their domain names to handle web and email services which are catered for by different providers. Without the knowledge to leverage their domain name records, users often default their email to free services like "Live" and...
Office 365’s data centres
Office 365's low cost points and deceptive ease of use masks a multi-billion dollar global investment in fibre optics, hardware, and corporate class software tools which makes Microsoft's Office products the dominant solution of choice for corporates and governments,...
For backup, read “high availability”
Office 365 and similar technologies provide a workaround to render the barbed issue of backups increasingly obsolete. In its place, high availability is the one overiding reason for businesses to relocate their email and data stores to solutions like Office 365. The...