Tracking SEN School Success: SENtinel™ wows at nasen LIVE 2019 The Intersys team recently showcased our award-winning SEN school metric tracking software SENtinel™ at nasen LIVE 2019. We were really excited to display a tool that we developed in collaboration with Whitfield Academy Trust, at one of the most hotly anticipated events for SEND educators across the country. Manning the stand were Intersys Professional Services Director Mark Kirby and Technical […]
Information Security assurance is a core pillar of Intersys’ service. We spend a great deal of time and effort implementing cyber security systems for ourselves and our clients. A belief in failsafe security is a dangerous misapprehension, so we spend much of our time trying to educate and improve on what’s there. Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that Intersys has passed our annual 3rd party ISO 27001 Information Security […]
Don’t Let your Business Information End up in a Phishing Net Phishing attacks continue to make headlines, with as many as 3 billion phishing emails being sent every day, according to experts. As companies and governments try hard to clamp down on ransomware, speculation is that criminals have turned back to phishing to try to defraud Internet users. The result is that the number of phishing scams soared in […]
Protect Your Business From These Social Media Threats Social media can make a business. There’s no shortage of success stories from companies, big and small who’ve used the reach of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others to build or boost their business. For small businesses, particularly, social media can be a great leveller, giving innovative products and clever marketing much greater exposure than anything the firms behind them could otherwise afford. […]
It’s official, Interys has won the Managed Service Solution of the Year at the 2019 IT Europa Awards! We are thrilled to have taken the trophy for our core Managed Service offering and beaten eight other worthy competitors (UK based and global). Matthew Geyman, Managing Director at Intersys said “It is a real honour and privilege to be recognised for delivering great service in such a competitive market. With this […]
We are IT Europa finalists…again For the second year in a row, we have been shortlisted for the IT Europa Awards recognising excellence in European IT and software. This year we have been shortlisted for the Managed Service Solution of the Year as well as the Public Sector/Utilities Solution of the year. The shortlisted categories Managed Services for Hummingbird Resources We are thrilled to have some of our most exciting […]
Password managers – a problem or panacea for password security? One New Year’s resolution that many of us should keep for 2019 is to have better passwords for our online activity. The evidence is, though, that we probably won’t. A recent list of the “100 worst passwords” of 2018 is most striking for its similarities to 2017 – and every other year. Based on the most common passwords found in leaked […]
If recent headlines are anything to go by, 2018 was the year of the data breach. Marriot, Facebook, Eurostar and Google+ are just some of the big global brands that had their customer data compromised. Its clear that cyber criminals are becoming more and more sophisticated about how they exploit online vulnerabilities whether for people and organisations. When it comes to individuals, it’s certainly true that the ‘age of […]
November marks the 30th anniversary of the ‘Morris worm’ and, with it, the first distributed denial of service attack. The ‘Morris worm’ was certainly one of the more interesting viruses partly because it was in a sense caused by accident: It’s source was a programmer who wrote it because he wanted to gauge how big the Internet was. No harm was intended. Unfortunately, that’s not true of the majority […]
The current national IT and cyber security skills gap is a key concern for organisations, businesses and government alike. It’s estimated that there will be 1 million tech vacancies in the UK by 2020. As a thriving IT Support business and employer, we are always on the lookout for emerging talent and this is where IT and cyber security apprenticeships have played a key role. 100% Apprentice Employment Rate […]
