- Pond Webmaster
- 2 Mar 20
Business Continuity – COVID-19/Coronavirus
Below is a letter we have sent to all our customers. Hopefully if may be of use to someone else too. Dear All,With the COVID-19 outbreak showing little sign of going away, we just wanted to send a gentle reminder to ensure your Business Continuity Plans are up to date. If Government advice changes and all/most staff are required to work from home, we want to avoid a sudden deluge of calls from users who have forgotten their VPN passwords, or have no remote access set up. This happens most years when it snows, but this could affect many more people, and for a longer time. Below is a brief […]
- Pond Webmaster
- 27 Oct 16
‘RansomWare’: how to avoid a disaster
Every business comes with challenges. Not just the everyday problems of remaining profitable, efficient and competitive, but challenges to the very existence of the business itself. The threats we face as business owners are evolving continually and businesses who fail to recognise the risks are leaving themselves vulnerable. Take a high-street store. One big threat is shoplifters – easily mitigated by security guards, CCTV and product security tags. What if the thieves worked out a way to take your entire stock, lock it up in a warehouse somewhere and threatened to burn it all unless you paid them a ransom? Well, that’s exactly what is happening in the digital world […]
