Tech Takeaways
Tech Takeaways from the team at Gardner Systems brings you the inside track on the key challenges facing today's businesses. All are delivered in bite-size episodes to help you find answers to the big tech questions.
Episodes
67 episodes
Episode 18 - There's no happy ending with ransomware
This week's show is the first of a two-part special with Sophos Technical Evangelist, Jon Hope. Jon shares with us his and Sophos's view of the modern threat landscape, customer challenges and how to deal with them.Jon provides insight ...
Episode 17 - "My IT is all good" and other outrageous IT claims!
Wayne is missing this week - so Jason and Paul go rogue and let loose on the IT claims they commonly hear, but are often not true. The team picks through common misconceptions ranging from the classic "It's in the cloud, I do...
Episode 16 - Data Loss Prevention
Data is a valuable asset to any business. It's the information we use to make decisions, the things we share with our customers, suppliers and partners to more effectively operate. The question is, are you protecting this valuable asset as well...
Episode 13 - The Inevitable ChatGPT Episode
It had to happen that Tech Takeaways would wander into the murky waters of ITs current hot topic of Generative AI. A technology brought into the popular consciousness by ChatGPT. But what does this potentially game-changing technology actually ...
Episode 12 - Yep, Enterprise Password Managers are a thing and why you should get one!
The risk posed to businesses by poor password management is huge. A username and password that falls into the wrong hands can be used to gain access to all kinds of systems, from enterprise to personal. They can be used to steal data, money, de...
Episode 11 - Why usernames and passwords are top of the cybercriminals hit list
All businesses have and need usernames and passwords. They are how we get access to systems and our business information. Today businesses and users are managing more usernames and passwords than ever before.This creates a massive probl...
Episode 10 - Gone Phishing? How not to get hooked!
Phishing remains one of the primary weapons that cyber attackers have available to them to try to compromise the security of an individual or a business. The threat is ever-evolving and has moved on greatly from Princes offering you millions if...
Episode 9 - Is your resilient infrastructure as resilient as you think?
IT is essential to the smooth running of all businesses. Therefore it is critical that it is always available and that individual issues don't leave us without crucial systems. To achieve that, businesses design and build resilient IT infrastru...
Episode 8 - Current Cyberattack trends and how to avoid them
The recent MOVEit file transfer breach has caught a lot of attention in the news recently, with high-profile victims of the attack around the world. In the UK this includes BA, The BBC and Boots. It's yet another example of a breach that has a ...
Episode 7 - How to gain your Cyber Essentials stripes
In this episode, the team talks about cybersecurity again. When trying to tackle the ever-changing cybersecurity threat it's critical that businesses, regardless of their size, should ensure they have the basics of security right. But how do yo...
Episode 6 - The secrets of cloud migration
Most businesses have adopted the cloud in some form or another. There are numerous reasons, whether it's for flexibility, scale, simplicity or cost. Whatever the reason, making a move to the cloud may not always be straightforward. But, you...
Episode 5 - Why don't you have a cyber resilience plan?
On this week's Tech Takeaways, we look at Cyber Resilience planning. In a world where businesses spend an increasing amount on cyber security tools to stop incidents, we are finding very few have developed specific plans to deal with the impact...
Episode 4 - Isn't everyone backing up Microsoft 365 already?
Much to Jason and Paul's surprise, apparently the answer is no! So the gang have a chat about why backing up data in Microsoft 365 is important. They discuss the Microsoft shared responsibility matrix, and why you need to remember ...
Episode 3 - Why you should be managing your endpoints
We all have endpoint devices whether it's laptops, desktops, or mobile phones, but how many of us fully manage them?In this episode, Jason, Paul and Wayne discuss recent projects where customers have benefitted significantly from gettin...
Stop spending too much and optimise your Microsoft 365 costs
More and more businesses have embraced the move to Microsoft 365 and the wider public cloud. However, many of those businesses find they are spending more money on their cloud infrastructure than they need to. How do you know if you are spendin...
Managed cybersecurity and making it work for you
The cybersecurity threat is ever evolving and is present 24 hours a day. The impact of a cybersecurity breach can be catastrophic making it the number one technology challenge faced by all businesses. But how to we deal it? In this...
