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Twelfth Night: decluttering for cyber security 

Twelfth Night, the end of Christmastide, is traditionally the date by which your Christmas decorations should be taken down, the tree recycled, anything broken or damaged safely discarded, and the good stuff packed away for another year. It’s supposed to be bad luck to keep the decorations up past Twelfth Night. This process will leave your space decluttered, clean, and ...
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Spelling matters

There must be very few of us who have never typed in the wrong web address for a website—even if only out by a single letter—and ended up somewhere unexpected. Your end destination might be entirely innocuous, and the website in question innocent of all bad intent. After all, there aren’t an infinite number of good domain names. But this ...

Top 10 Click and Protect Posts: 2022 

Since it’s nearly the end of another year, we thought we’d round up the most popular posts that the Click and Protect team published during 2022 to help you with expert advice – and here they are, in order. Interestingly, the top 4 most read articles were all from our Foundations series, which is intended to help you get the ...
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Five things to know about cyber security and small business 

Small Business Saturday UK is intended to highlight small business success, and encourage people to shop local and support small businesses in their own communities. Almost every business in the UK is a small business*, so this is a great initiative. We’d encourage you to support small businesses too.  There’s a 50% chance that you work in a small business ...
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Setting the cyber security tone during on-boarding

Part of your employer brand is communicated to employees through the quality of your on-boarding process. A good on-boarding process for new employees matters: it sets the tone and keeps the chosen employee engaged with the process, so they don’t jilt the employer for a different offer partway through the process. On-boarding actions are likely to include contact from the ...

Cyber security advice: don’t mix business with personal

Setting up a dedicated business email account improves your branding and gives a more professional impression (hello@yourbusiness.com, for example, comes across as more businesslike than sweetkitten97@hotmail.com). But there’s even more at risk than your business reputation. Keeping your business and personal email accounts separate is important. While merging your business and personal email accounts can make your life easier in ...