All About YubiKeys
What are Yubikeys? YubiKeys are literally a key-sized device, similar in size to a USB memory stick, which you can plug in to your laptop or PC as a multifactor authentication (MFA) method. It can work with business and home software, especially logins to Microsoft, Google and Meta (Facebook, Instagram)…
6 Terrific Tips to Improve your IT Health
Here's 6 tips from Microsoft to help safeguard your privacy and protect your PC > 1 Learn how to protect yourself from phishing and other scams - one of the most common attacks we see are phishing attacks. This is when an attacker contacts you pretending to be a…
February 2024 Newsletter
February 2024 Hello, Welcome to our February newsletter update. Supporting Salford Red Devils This year we have partnered with Salford Red Devils with two NCS IT banners pitch-side. These will be shown at all of the men’s First Team home matches at the AJ Bell Stadium in Salford. So if…
Office 365 and Multifactor Authentication
This shouldn’t need to be said, but unfortunately it does. If you are using Office 365 in any capacity you should have a strong password. More importantly, you should have multi-factor authentication (MFA) configured and turned on. If you don't, then why not? I'd be very interested to hear a…
How to Protect Against 99% of Cyberattacks
Microsoft have released their Digital Defence Report for 2023. The report makes for interesting reading. We have highlighted below the report’s key section regarding how to protect against 99% of attacks. Microsoft comments, “While we explore the many dimensions of the cyber threat landscape, there is one crucial point we…