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Is your business sitting on the ticking time bomb of the next great IT security breach?

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.

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 passionate about. The issue we had was that some of our cloud partners didn’t quite keep up the pace.

Ortus Managed IT & Cloud named as a Rising Star in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2015

Picture the scenario – you have spent months / years / decades building your company’s reputation. A security breach occurs leading to sensitive customer data getting into the wrong hands. This one breach has instantly set your company’s reputation back to square one or even further. Most people are well aware that at the very minimum they should install an Antivirus program. However just installing an Antivirus program is not enough. Below we have shared some basic security tips that you can easily put in place to significantly reduce the chances of the above scenario ever coming to pass.

Since back when the word “cloud” was little more than a sign of rain, our team have been providing remote access solutions to some of Ireland’s largest companies. For over 10 years, we have been continuously testing and rolling out our IT & Cloud solutions for different industries and tackling issues such as remote access, cloud and security auditing.

Cloud computing is mentioned everywhere these days, but what exactly is “Cloud Computing”? It’s accessing emails, data or programs over the internet. Why is this so important? Because in this day and age, people want to access their data and services across different devices from anywhere, at any time.

Data Security is a concerning factor when using any level of Cloud computing and rightfully so, however there are some misconceptions regarding security threats as well. In this blog post we will try to filter through the unfounded concerns, to help reduce misperceptions so that more focus can be placed on addressing cloud security threats that should be prioritised, ones that are actually real, rather than fretting over fictitious issues.