02/11/2022

Why monitoring staff is vital for data security during Covid-19

How important is it to monitor staff when they are working remotely? At a time when the majority of people are locked down due to the Covid-19 crisis, companies need to be sure that their security is maintained – so monitoring is vital. This is not about checking up on whether employees are working productively or ...

02/11/2022

Avoid a hefty fine for a damaging data breach

The threat of a data breach during the Covid-19 crisis is a clear and present danger to companies that are not taking the right precautions. But what happens if there is a data breach and the Data Protection Commission are called in – or you call them in yourself? There are 22 questions that a company needs ...

02/11/2022

How remote working can boost productivity and wellbeing

The rapid shift to remote working during Phase One of the Covid-19 crisis, getting workers home, has led to a totally different way of working and a fair few good jokes, such as the one about “the elephant in the Zoom”. The initial challenges of ensuring all staff had connectivity and hardware to work from ...

02/11/2022

Patient data must be kept confidential and secure

Nothing is more confidential and personal than patient data, so the need to keep it secure and only accessible to the right staff is paramount. There are times when medical staff take pictures of patient wounds to see how the effect of the treatment over time: there is nothing more personal. Or a caregiver giving ...

02/11/2022

Working from home is productive – but don’t forget security

There are many ways to improve productivity for those new to working from home during the current Covid-19 crisis – but one thing is paramount: security. For those in the IT Managed Services business, the past few weeks have been incredibly busy as companies face the challenge of getting their workforces up and running to ...

02/11/2022

Building & Implementing A Disaster Recovery Plan

Given the current uncertainty and panic over COVID-19, businesses are finding themselves forced to face the unforeseen. But just how prepared are they? While many companies are now encouraging employees to work from home – as Google Ireland and other tech companies are doing – it seems those with the right kind of IT infrastructure are able ...

02/11/2022

How technology can improve the quality of life for nursing home patients

How can technology help the owners of nursing homes and healthcare facilities? More importantly, perhaps, how can technology and the cloud benefit their patients? There are facilities that still run their operations using pen and paper, stuck with old-fashioned methods that don’t help either staff or residents. Even kitchen menus are being circulated on paper, ...

02/11/2022

How to unleash the full potential of your IT

Ortus came to life in our founder Cian Prendergast’s garage in Abbeyleix in 2007, where he and our Technical Director David Brophy slowly put together a new style of IT company. Humble beginnings. A side hustle that came from the deeply held belief that the IT marketplace in Ireland was fundamentally broken, that customers were ...

02/11/2022

Choosing Microsoft Azure Cloud was the right move

A little over 3 years ago we had a big decision to make. At that stage we had several good years’ behind us providing cloud services to our clients with a clear and deliberate focus on keeping them at the cutting edge of modern IT, a core value of ours and something I’m personally very ...