Posted on Friday, February 3rd, 2012
In a recent report compiled by the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Select Committee, it is urged that the Government launch a “prolonged awareness raising campaign to increase public understanding of personal online security.” This is in light of the fact that the number of cases whereby individuals have been the victim of identity-stealing malware…
Posted on Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Tracy Ewen, MD at commercial finance company IGF comments on the rise in company insolvencies: “Today’s Q4 insolvency figures are no great surprise, with a worse than expected Christmas period and extended Eurozone woes spooking the markets. The 7.2% increase on Q4 2011 further shows what a hard year 2011 was for businesses in the…
Posted on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
This research project sets out to identify the barriers to successful implementation of customer focused change programmes. Particularly around the role of team leader/junior manager, especially the behavioural factors such as leadership, creative problem solving and customer focus. Introduction and Objectives: It is well documented that many change programmes fail to achieve the desired or…
Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2012
Guest Blog on the power of video from Iain McBride – posted by Sharon Wilding from Purple Edge Marketing. This is my take on video as a way of getting publicity with videos on the web and Youtube, but first I’d like to add my brief thoughts to the social media debate. I started as…
Posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
FANTASTIC! My membership of Kent Invicta Chamber has just saved me over £200 on AA breakdown cover for 2 cars and that is for top spec! Gill All Health Matters
Posted on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Over the last year we have dealt with an increase in cases whereby our customers’ or those of our customers’, PC’s have been infected with key-loggers. Key-loggers will steal all information entered into a computer and then the cybercriminals will filter out the most valuable data: most commonly online banking credentials. PC’s can become infected…
Posted on Friday, January 13th, 2012
Will Kent County Council use funding wisely? The Chancellor’s recent decision to give schools another £1.2 billion for capital investment was welcome news and came just days after Education Secretary Michael Gove announced an extra £500 million for local authorities to help oversubscribed and cramped schools. While it’s unclear yet which areas will benefit from…
Posted on Monday, January 9th, 2012
Managed Services Centre (www.msc247.com) is an IT Managed Services and Managed Security company, providing IT management and security solutions to SME’s and large enterprises. We want to know how safe you think you are online, from a consumers point of view: are you aware of all the dangers and threats that you face when you…
Posted on Friday, January 6th, 2012
We have mentioned many times in our blogs the importance of using secure, strong and unique passwords for each of your accounts. However, it has recently come to light that even security experts use weak passwords. ‘Hacktivist’ group, Anonymous, carried out a massive attack on the global security consulting firm Stratfor on the 24th December…
Posted on Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
SWALE HEATING RESPONSE TO HIGH COURT RULING ON SOLAR TARIFF CUTS Responding to a High Court ruling yesterday (21 Dec) that Government plans to rush through cuts to subsidies for solar panels on homes are legally flawed, Swale Heating has urged ministers to take this opportunity to “rethink their plans”. The Government’s planned cuts to…
