Online shopping is the easiest and most convenient way to shop these days, but cyber criminals can take advantage of this and use it as an opportunity to steal your personal data. Here’s our 6 Top Tips for Making Safer Online Purchases: 1. Watch out for fake websites It’s easy for criminals to create websites …
With the majority of top ten Google search results now producing local websites instead of generic ones, local SEO is something that businesses can’t ignore. If you want to help your website appear at the top of Google in the local search results, here are 8 Top Tips for Local SEO to get your started: …
There are some basic steps that businesses need to complete for a full Cloud migration and QiC can help. Here are a few things you’ll need to consider when migrating your business to The Cloud: Email – This was traditionally on your on-premise server, but most companies have already moved this into The Cloud, usually …
One essential step to ensuring you’re compliant with GDPR is discovering and controlling what personal data you hold and where it resides. There are many Office 365 solutions that can help with this: 1. Compliance Manager – helps you manage your organisation’s compliance procedures from one place. You can conduct real-time risk assessments, providing a …
There are 5 key steps to consider when implementing an IT Disaster Recovery Plan: Step 1: Identify the risks: in what scenario would your data or IT systems be at risk? Consider natural disasters, power failures, cyber-attacks. Step 2: Impact: analyse the impact an IT failure, data breech or data loss would have on …
1. Competence What training or certifications do they have to make them competent enough to work on your IT systems? Any reputable IT service provider will have a recognised association with the products they supply. For example, QiC is an approved supplier of Dell and Microsoft products, including Office 365, and a certified supplier of …
We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome Macaulay Spencer, our new apprentice, to the team. Having studied Computing at college, Macaulay joined QiC two months ago on a 12 month apprenticeship. Working on QiC’s help desk, Macaulay is part of our telephone support team, providing day to day assistance to customers, resolving issues …
1. Emails – Most Ransomware attacks occur as the result of a user opening an attachment that has come in on an email. This email may look innocent enough, and in some circumstances could even appear to come from somebody within your own company. All users should be extremely cautious before opening attachments. If there …
Make sure you’re getting the most out of your Office 365 subscription, and explore the additional benefits it could be bringing to your business – there’s far more to it than just the Office suite! Features you may want to try… • Planner – Make it easy for your team to create new plans and …
QIC offers a range of cost-effective IT support services to small and medium sized businesses throughout the South of England. These services include… • Full Microsoft Office 365 set up and support, including email hosting and management • Server management and optimisation • Backup solutions for your business-critical data • Installing and administering anti-spam …