Apr 04, 2024
Cyber attackers are remarkably resourceful. They can be inventive and pretty creative in how they infiltrate your systems. We have seen situations where work information is taken from a personal...
Feb 01, 2024
8 Step Guide To Creating A Profitable Business Culture We've run various projects involving work on our business at Alto and one of the projects that we felt would be worth...
Dec 08, 2023
If you're in a business, you need to make sure things are secure. It's not something that should be taken lightly. You need patches, alerts, antivirus, email security, dark web...
May 17, 2023
Microsoft 365 is a productivity suite of software, collaboration tools, cybersecurity products and cloud services. It includes what used to be called Microsoft Office – all the apps you use...
Mar 28, 2023
We’ve written about creating a business continuity plan and why it’s so important. To recap, you need to consider how your business would function if you lost access to your data,...
Feb 24, 2023
What Is Cloud Storage? You’re almost certainly using cloud storage in your everyday life, even if you don’t realise it. If you back your photos up from your phone, share files...
Jan 31, 2023
We're regularly asked about the benefits of migrating to Microsoft 365 and we are firmly of the opinion that there are a large number of advantages and very few drawbacks....
Dec 07, 2022
There are five really common problems that people experience with computers and some of them can be fixed or at least diagnosed pretty quickly and easily, and are definitely worth...
Nov 02, 2022
If you run a business then the obvious answer to the question 'How long should your business computers last' may seem to be 'As long as possible'. With all of...
Aug 22, 2022
Slow computers are a constant irritation. They also cost your business a lot of money. How? Well, let's take a look at the maths; a computer that runs slowly for...
Apr 12, 2022
Following our explanation of the Cyber Essentials programme, we are going to go into more detail about the 80 question questionnaire and the type of information that is required.
Mar 29, 2022
What Is Cyber Essentials? Cyber Essentials is a basic yet effective government-backed programme that will help you be aware of cyber threats and help protect your business against these threats.
Dec 22, 2021
Pretty much everything you do with a computer in your business either involves connecting to the internet or connecting to services on the internet. Your internet connection has several components...
Nov 23, 2021
These days having a password is not enough. If you want to protect your data from hackers then you need another layer of protection – this layer is multi-factor authentication...
Oct 19, 2021
As a vendor for Microsoft 365, we spend a lot of time looking at the security of the system. The Microsoft 365 secure score is one of the most reliable sources...
Sep 23, 2021
Cyber security starts with knowledge. Knowing which threats are out there and how to recognise them goes a long way to keeping your systems safe from attack. These videos demonstrate some...
Aug 12, 2021
In simple terms, cyber security encompasses any action taken to protect your company data, personal and sensitive information which you store online, on a server or in the cloud. Cyber criminals...
Jun 07, 2021
We support clients across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, and that means that we spend a lot of time fixing irritating computer performance issues that interfere with people’s productivity and disrupt their...