Heorot Consulting Ltd

25/12/2024

🎄 Merry Christmas from Heorot Consulting! 🎄

2024 has been a year of growth, challenges, and achievements both in the IT consulting and the property services sectors.

From all of us at Heorot Consulting, we wish you and your loved ones a period filled with peace, happiness, and plenty of reasons to celebrate. 🎁✨

Here’s to a bright and successful 2025 ahead! 🌟

23/09/2024

🚨 Should You Rely on Free Email Providers like Gmail? Could They Be Risky for Your Business? 🚨

In today’s digital world, email security is more crucial than ever. While providers like Gmail, Yahoo, and others are convenient, they come with certain vulnerabilities that businesses should to be aware of.

🔐 Limited Security & Compliance: Free email services typically don't provide the same level of security features as enterprise-grade solutions. Features like advanced phishing detection, data loss prevention, and encryption are often basic or missing entirely.

🚫 Lack of Centralised Control: For businesses, managing multiple accounts across different platforms can lead to security gaps, some of which could be serious. You don’t have the centralised management, auditing, or policy enforcement that platforms like Microsoft 365 (O365) can offer.

⚠️ Higher Risk of Phishing Attacks: Email platforms like Gmail, while great for personal use, can be more prone to phishing and spoofing attacks. They simply don’t offer the same level of real-time protection against advanced threats.

📉 Limited Integration: Microsoft 365 integrates deeply with other business tools such as SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive all of which can streamline workflows and ensure a unified security strategy across the entire organisation. Free providers don’t offer this seamless experience.

👨‍💻 Data Privacy Concerns: With Gmail and other free providers, you’re often the product. Your data could be mined for advertising or other purposes, creating potential privacy issues.

By contrast, Microsoft 365 offers enterprise-grade security, comprehensive compliance tools, and advanced threat protection, making it a much more robust choice for business emails.

Is your business still relying on a free email provider? It might be time to rethink your strategy and reach out. 💼📧

https://heorot.co.uk/

Hampshire/Berkshire based Heorot Consulting provides various IT Consultancy Services to a number of sectors including Finance, Transportation and Retail. Areas of speciality include helping you understand your IT landscape, Project and Change Management, Procurement, Software Implementation, End Use...

25/07/2024

As you gear up for the next financial year, IT procurement may or may not be at the forefront of your strategic planning. It’s not just about acquiring new technology, but about making smart investments that drive innovation, efficiency, and growth.

Do you focus on:

• Leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead of the curve?
• Building strong vendor relationships to ensure quality and reliability?
• Implementing sustainable practices to reduce your environmental footprint?

Do you know where to start when it comes to IT procurement?

If not, contact us to see if we can help.

www.heorot.co.uk

Hampshire/Berkshire based Heorot Consulting provides various IT Consultancy Services to a number of sectors including Finance, Transportation and Retail. Areas of speciality include helping you understand your IT landscape, Project and Change Management, Procurement, Software Implementation, End Use...

07/04/2024

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In the digital age, online social and professional networking sites are enabling us to be more joined up than ever, but also expose us to unforeseen risks.

05/04/2024

Work in the industry and manage across the estate or household? Does your client complain of slow connectivity or their online experience not great?

Are those arrows big enough? Do you even know what size your clients internet connection is today?

Contact us for a health check or to discuss how we can help you. https://heorot.co.uk/contact/

01/04/2024

Are you prepared as well as you can be? Have you taken a look at your technologies, how you protect them and ensured they are fit for purpose?

Contact Heorot Consulting for support. www.heorot.co.uk

https://news.sky.com/story/china-trying-to-undermine-our-democracy-as-mps-set-to-be-warned-about-new-cyber-attacks-13101022

Hampshire/Berkshire based Heorot Consulting provides various IT Consultancy Services to a number of sectors including Finance, Transportation and Retail. Areas of speciality include helping you understand your IT landscape, Project and Change Management, Procurement, Software Implementation, End Use...

27/03/2024

I had the privilege of supporting a local organisation recently who were the victim of a targeted ransomware attack which took them down for a number of weeks.

Whilst IT was not this organisations skillset and they were happy to admit this, what was interesting was the lack of proactive support and in my view 'value add' the outsourced third party provider had given them over the years.

From ageing on premise hardware and an illogical set up with regard to telecoms and networks, there was potentially a lot that could have been done to reduce impact or prevent the incident that occurred.

If you need a technology health check or require some oversight across your third party providers feel free to contact me direct or visit

Hampshire/Berkshire based Heorot Consulting provides various IT Consultancy Services to a number of sectors including Finance, Transportation and Retail. Areas of speciality include helping you understand your IT landscape, Project and Change Management, Procurement, Software Implementation, End Use...

18/03/2024

Good environments management and a robust software deployment process is key to ensuring any business can maintain and run its platforms.

Does your organisation need to get smarter in its use of environments and how it deploys software updates?

Please visit www.heorot.co.uk if you need help.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/16/sainsburys-grocery-deliveries-hit-by-technical-issue

Sainsbury’s was unable to deliver majority of daily orders, while Tesco hit by separate issue that impacted small number of deliveries

17/03/2024

Interesting to see the end result of this and of course whether will hear who that third party is….

Within 24 hours Tesco and Sainsbury’s suffered outages with their payment platform too.

Ensuring your third parties have a robust process for environments and software updates are key to ensuring your business doesn’t break.

Where do you draw the line though…?

McDonald‘s has suffered a reported IT system outage in some of its restaurants, which has left customers unable to order food.

03/07/2023

Looking to use WhatsApp for your business and need a virtual number? Message us for further details on our low pricing.

25/02/2023

Use your Kit and PIN to validate your SelectaDNA kit and start the registration process. It only takes 2 minutes to complete. Registering your SelectaDNA kit will help Police return property to you in the event it is ever stolen and later recovered.

20/02/2023

Looking back at Q4 for 2022, whilst it was a quiet quarter for Heorot Property Services we still carried out 60 jobs across Berkshire and Hampshire.

Contact us if you require inventory or property services support.