The Log4j vulnerability The “Log4j Vulnerability” has become a widespread concern practically overnight, raising questions and fears for anyone that owns a computer. Global uncertainty about the vulnerability has sent business owners into a panic and has experts in the field scrambling for answers. Let us take some time to look at what we know about the vulnerability, what…
Many longer-term plans for your IT have been fast-tracked over the past 16 months. As more organisations start to return to the office, business owners face many decisions about their IT strategy moving forward. Typically, many accountancy firm’s technology choices have been driven by the products they’ve chosen over the years, perhaps by the relationship…
This month’s CyberScotland Technical Bulletin is now available to read here. Cyber security is at the core of our customer care portfolio at Lugo. We partner with the world’s leading providers of security solutions to enable us to deliver an industry leading IT managed services program to our clients. Alongside this, we work with local…
Keeping true to our commitment to our clients and suppliers cyber security, Lugo has just passed it’s Cyber Essentials accreditation again. Find out more here about Cyber Essentials and how Lugo can help you stay secure so you show your customers and suppliers you take their cyber security seriously as well.
Over the last year, firms have had to quickly adapt to be able to keep delivering accountancy services to clients. This has been a smoother process for some than for others. For example, did your phone system continue as normal, or did you have to stop accepting inbound calls? Regrettably, not every firm has been…
WEBINAR: Top Tips to strengthen your firm’s cyber security As part of Cyber Scotland Week, on Tuesday 23rd February at 11am we’re hosting a TOP TIPS webinar with our friends from ICAS, SBRC and Azets. We’ll have a round table chat about practical steps including where to start when it comes to securing your firm,…
Where to focus your Cyber Security Following on from our overview of the research we conducted on IT in Accountancy published in November 2020 (you can access the article here), we’re now going to take a deeper dive into one of the key themes to come out of this study, cyber security. We were surprised…
As we move to an increasingly remote and roaming workforce, the way we are working is constantly changing. This is adding complexity to business security architecture and challenging traditional approaches to cyber security. A large proportion of workers are now accessing the corporate network from home. These users need to be protected as well as…
Why Anti-virus isn’t enough Security used to be easy. You installed antivirus (AV) solutions, trained employees not to click on unknown links, and kept software and websites up to date. In the modern world, cyber threats morph and multiply daily. Unfortunately, traditional antivirus programs that operate on signatures cannot adequately defend against some of the…
Having security at our core is fundamental to the strength of our business. At Lugo, we’re all delighted to have received Cyber Essentials Certification for the second year running….and we’ve earned a brand new logo! We are now working towards Cyber Essentials Plus which we hope to achieve over the coming months. Cyber Essentials Cyber…
