There is a type of client that doesn't choose an IT supplier by price: they choose by who responds when the system goes down, who signs what they promise and who manages to pass a security audit carried out
www.dataroad.pt is now available in five languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French and German. It wasn't a marketing decision — it was a consequence. A significant portion of our clients already work in these languages all the
Most SME managers have heard of NIS2 as "that European cybersecurity law for large companies". Half of that sentence is wrong. NIS2 is indeed a European directive, but in Portugal it already
September is the month when the most companies call us with the same type of issue: the laptop that was left turned off for a month and now won't boot up, the server that restarted by itself in August and nobody noticed,
If you could only do one thing for your company's security this month, it should be this. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) — asking for confirmation on a mobile phone in addition to the password — blocks the vast majority of attacks that
When a company wakes up with its files encrypted and a ransom note on the screen, it feels like the attack happened that night. It is almost never the case. The attacker got in days or weeks before, moved around the network, found
Ask anyone in your company how many different passwords they use. The honest answer is "two or three, with variations". The email password is similar to the management software one, which is the same as the
"We have a firewall." That is the phrase we hear in almost every initial meeting, and it is almost always true: there is a box in the rack with the name of a security vendor on it. What follows...
Companies grow in leaps and bounds: ten more people in a quarter, a new office, a business line that needs another software. The IT infrastructure grows through patches: another switch hanging off the previous one, another
September and October are the months when most SMEs finalise their budget for the following year, and IT is usually included as a single line item — "IT: same as last year plus 5%". Then comes