by Equity Networks | Nov 8, 2017 | IT support
We understand flexible working because we do it too. In fact, does anyone in Firstline IT do a conventional 9 to 5 in the office? We started looking seriously at the idea of flexible remote working a few years ago, when Oxford was suddenly, and most unusually, buried...
by Equity Networks | Oct 30, 2017 | Security
We answer your questions on protecting your networks from ransomware and other cyber-attacks. A new strain of ransomware known as Bad Rabbit is lurking on the horizon. At the moment it is only attacking businesses in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany, but it is...
by Equity Networks | Oct 18, 2017 | Security
‘Keep calm and carry on’ is our message to individuals and businesses worried by the news of a flaw in the WPA2 authentication system for WiFi. As usual, media reports are full of doom and gloom. Even the BBC website, which is normally relatively measured, screamed:...
by Equity Networks | Oct 10, 2017 | IT support
Is the end of the road for the Windows phone the start of something entirely new in the global software market? In an announcement so low key as to be almost undetectable to the human ear, Microsoft has snuck out the news that it is abandoning further development of...
by Equity Networks | Oct 9, 2017 | Security
Sometimes, as with the implementation of GDPR next year, it pays to be small. The requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation, which come into force next year, are mostly nowhere near as onerous for companies with 250 employees or fewer as they are for...
by Equity Networks | Oct 2, 2017 | IT support
The screens on the wall of First Line’s offices give the place something of a Star Trek feel. The team uses them to monitor the networks they support as well as watching what is going on in the data centre and other parts of the building. The data centre in particular...
by Equity Networks | Sep 21, 2017 | Client stories
This Saturday, 24 September 2017, Firstline IT Operations Director John Crozier and his family will be joining in the Oxford Memory Walk to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. John writes movingly about the disease: ‘With three children of our own all growing up...
by Equity Networks | Aug 9, 2017 | IT support, Security
Firstline IT Managing Director Barrie Giles says that small businesses should not panic about the new EU data protection rules, but could take steps to make sure they are not caught out by legislation aimed at large multinationals. I am writing this blog from the...
