How much is your Business Downtime Really Worth?
How much is your Business Downtime Really Worth?
We are a busy real estate agency with multiple offices and staff
We are a busy real estate agency with multiple offices and staff working remotely, so it didn’t take long before we knew that we needed someone that specialised in both PC’s and Apple products to take care of our computer and IT needs. When it comes to computers, most of us know how to use …
Yass Yass Yass
We have been dealing with Allan for four years and what can we say he is excellent. With any issues he is instantly on the phone resolving it remotely and if he needs to come to the office is usually here within the hour. We would not have survived without him many times and especially …
Endorsement of Stuart Bryden
Stuart has been my IT guy for years. His determination to really work out a solution to whatever unique IT problem I have has never phased him, and he’s never tried a quick fix that results in the problem just coming back or getting worse. He is always professional and genial, delivers outstanding customer service, …
THE BEST IN TOWN
Stuart & Allan are not the usual IT support team. Why?….well for one they don’t look down their noses at those of us who are techno challenged. In fact they are happy to try and explain in layman’s terms what the problems may be. They are quick to respond to our cries for help- and …
Access Nephrology is dependent on the reliability!
Stuart from Symmetry IT has managed the information technology complexities of Access Nephrology for 2.5 years. Access Nephrology is a busy Consultant Medical Practice, with out-reach clinics in many parts of NSW. Medical information comes into Access Nephrology from a multitude of sources, to be used by three busy Consultant Physicians in the Practice. Access …
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Don’t Get Caught Out By the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) SchemeThe Office of Australian Information Commissioner confirmed 63 data breach notifications in the first quarter since the NDB Scheme came into effect. Don’t add your company to the growing list.
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Mandatory Data Breach Notification Laws.On 22 February 2018 Australia is implementing Mandatory Data Breach Notification Laws. There is a suggested 8 step model and is much more than just ticking a few boxes to be compliant. Failure to comply with the laws will result in hefty penalties. Symmetry-IT can help you with preparing for this. Are you ready? Contact us to discuss your situation.
Symmetry-IT utilizes services than are cloud based and reside in data centers across Australia. Earlier this morning one of these main centers lost power. This is normally not an issue as these centers have backup generators that cut in when this happens. Unfortunately all of these generators failed and caused a total outage of the Centre. This causes a problem as the centre has to be turned back on in stages to not blow electrical circuits.
Services will be returned as soon as possible
Visa to ditch signatures for cards as biometrics trial gets underway.Visa will start a small-scale trial of payment cards with built-in fingerprint scanners this year after setting April as the date it will eliminate the need for signatures with EMV chip or contactless payments.
Visa joins American Express, Discover, and MasterCard to phase out signatures, making them optional for all EMV contact or contactless chip-enabled merchants in North America from this April.
Older credit cards without EMV chips will still require signatures for authentication, it said.
source: Itnew.com
Increase in ransomware campaigns impacting organisations globallyThe ACSC is aware of an increase in ransomware campaigns impacting organisations globally. Ransomware is malicious software that makes data or systems unusable until the victim makes a payment.
The mitigations for ransomware are well known, criminals do not discriminate, and no organisation should be unprepared for when it hits them.
Mitigation advice:
◾Patch/update all software and operating systems immediately.
◾Ensure that your data is backed up regularly and that offline and/or offsite backups are available.
◾Ensure your antivirus software is up-to-date.
◾Organisations and individuals should not pay the ransom. There is no guarantee that paying the ransom will recover the affected data or systems, and it could make you vulnerable to further attacks. Restore your files from backup and seek technical advice.
Source acsc.gov.au
At least two Queensland law firms have lost several million dollars after falling victim to a "highly sophisticated" email scam, prompting an urgent warning from the Queensland Law Society.Hackers commandeered the email accounts of staff at the law firms by tricking them into revealing their email account login details before hijacking payments from clients.
Source msn.com
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