Cyber security for business simply explained

Cyber Security for your Business Explained

Posted on 1 July 202214 January 2023 by Clinton Carey

Business is increasingly dependent on the internet to communicate, perform transactions and research information. This increases your threat exposure. It’s crucial you have effective cyber security protection in place to keep your staff and your business safe from cyber-attacks. ...

Cloud VoIP Phone Systems for Business Explained

Posted on 18 May 202228 November 2022 by Clinton Carey

Cloud phone systems (Cloud VoIP) is becoming increasingly popular for businesses of all shapes and sizes in the Northern Rivers NSW and across Australia. If you are thinking about upgrading to a cloud VoIP phone system, here is everything you...

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Managed IT Services – Everything You Need To Know

Posted on 11 April 202215 February 2023 by Clinton Carey

Managed I.T. services means that someone takes the responsibility for the day to day support of your I.T. environment. Learn more about how partnering with an external IT support provider like Cicom can save you time, stress and money.

When the challenge to your business is mobility, remote communication and cloud access, we have the business to business solutions for your business. Cicom® — better for business.

Gearing up for mobility

Posted on 23 March 202218 October 2022 by Clinton Carey

We might aspire to be agile but our limited tech solutions may be inflexible. We might be agile and flexible but find we are constrained by the limitations of our tech. We might be needing to work remotely from anywhere...

How camels and computers are pegged together

Posted on 22 February 20221 July 2022 by Clinton Carey

Camels. Swift, snorting ships of the desert. They operate in remote regions, travelling vast distances across trackless, waterless wastes. Expert navigators of windblown dune or shimmering plain, camels are purpose-built for trekking from point A to point B in hostile...

Carve a bolder IT budget for your business

Plan more sweetness — carve a bolder IT budget

Posted on 26 January 202230 August 2022 by Clinton Carey

For every party pavlova presented, there’s only so many seconds before the fruity crown nestling in whipped cream upon a bed of melt-in-your-mouth meringue vanishes into thin air. For those who turn up late? All what’s left on the plate...

Email treats and a cuckoo’s egg

Posted on 20 December 20218 August 2022 by Clinton Carey

The 1980s were a wild west feast of exploration and invention for computer boffins. In those heady years before e-mail and the world wide web were born or embraced, networked computers were emerging as a thing. Clusters of computers connected...

Just because your data is resident on an external server, doesn't mean it's immune to malicious attack.

Conquering complacency on cloud backups

Posted on 6 December 202130 August 2022 by Clinton Carey

Converting to the cloud is akin to that smug feeling after ingesting a rich meal at a classy establishment. While climbing into the comfort of the cloud might be the current mood of savvy businesses, it’s too easy to fall...

With automation, choose method over madness

Posted on 12 November 202111 April 2022 by Clinton Carey

Organic. Hybrid. Convolute coils. Concepts that flourish well in a plant nursery hothouse. Not so marvellous when applied to the mayhem of different systems patched together in our busy workaday life. Our office systems are very often crazily plant-like. Chase...

A cautionary tale on “phishing”

Posted on 25 October 202123 March 2022 by Clinton Carey

Scams and scandals are not new. Take for instance the infamous Trojan Horse swindle. According to legend, this deception took the form of a huge hollow horse in which a troop of canny Greeks hid within as it was wheeled...

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