8 Cyber Insurance questions business leaders need to be asking providers in 2022
The rapid onset of digital and social disruption as a result of COVID-19 has meant some aspects of pre-pandemic cyber insurance policies have been invalidated, or the extent of their coverage reduced.
The COVID-19 outbreak sparked an acceleration of phishing, business email compromise and Ransomware attacks. Remote work brought new risks, especially for companies that needed to quickly make their infrastructures more robust to stay in business.
Fact3 support North West SMEs with their post-pandemic business needs through SaaSAge merger
Fact3’s merger with SaaSAge triples the size of the Systems team and brings new skills into Fact3 that will support businesses with the post pandemic modern workplace.
Following 12 months of sustained growth, Manchester’s leading Co-Sourcing provider Fact3 has merged with SaaSAge to further strengthen its offer to regional SMEs, providing customised IT services tailored to the ‘new normal’ of business operations.
Five key areas to focus on for secure remote working practices
5 key areas to focus on for secure remote working practices
Just a few years ago, remote working was something only the most progressive, hippest new Silicon Valley start-ups practiced. Now almost every organisation has been forced to shift their operations and infrastructure to a remote working model.
Your return to work checklist for efficient IT operations
6 tips for returning to work
With businesses returning to their offices – and the faint glimmer of pre-Covid-19 operations on the horizon – we thought we’d share some time-saving advice. A return-to-work checklist to help you get back up and running with your IT systems.
How Hackers get your password (and how to protect yourself)
Hackers are getting smarter and breaches are increasing.
Here are the key password threats and how to address them from the Systems team at Fact3.
6 questions boards need to ask themselves when considering cyber security
Effective cyber security starts at board level. Cyber security strategy has to be embedded at every level of an organisation for it to work.
Based on advice from the National Cyber Security Centre we’ve extracted some of the most important questions your board needs to ask themselves to kick off the cyber security conversation the right way.
The ONLY list of essential cyber security resources UK SMEs need: from Fact3
When it comes to cyber security, there are hundreds of blogs, advice and resources available for SMEs.
To save you time we’ve put together a comprehensive list of resources encompassing everything we think SME business owners need to know about cyber security.
The most common cyber security threats to SMEs
The importance of cyber security grows year on year as the technology we use in our businesses becomes increasingly embedded in every action our employees take to carry out their day to day roles.
There are a number of different types of cyber attacks and security breaches, but some are more common than others.
5 cyber security training topics SMEs MUST cover with employees
Employees are by far the biggest cyber security risk to most SMEs.
If employees aren’t trained to identify what a risk looks like, they certainly won’t be able to manage it effectively.
The #FACTS about cyber security
On the back of our cyber security executive roundtable, here are the critical #FACTS you need to know about cyber security.
Take a look at our infographic.
ROUNDTABLE FINDINGS: What SMEs need to know about cyber security - with Greater Manchester Police
On 13th June 2019 Fact3, Xyone Cyber Security and A&B Insurance hosted an executive roundtable in Manchester, focusing on the issue of cyber security for SMEs.
We cover what you can do, as an employer, to help improve and maintain this within a workforce.
Attaining cyber essentials plus: Secured mail
Recently, one of our IT clients Secured Mail, announced that they had successfully attained their Cyber Essentials Plus certification with the help from summ.it.
Our IT team offered continued support and ensured all systems were configured to the exacting Cyber Essentials Plus standards so that when Secured Mail were assessed by an authorised Cyber Essentials Plus auditor they passed first time.
Introducing GDPR
With the new changes nearing it is no wonder GDPR is the topic of conversation for many of us. The new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) coming into effect in May 2018 means a lot of businesses will have to change the way they use and store personal data.
From May, you will only be able to market to customers/clients who have double opted into your emails meaning data which you use now, may not be compliant.